Pick 404 if the number should read as Atlanta itself.
404 was Georgia’s first area code, from 1947. Most of the area inside the Interstate 285 beltway kept it when 770 was split off.
The area codes for Atlanta are 404, 678, 470 and 943.
Area codes in Atlanta
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404 is the center of Atlanta, and 770 is the metro area outside the city. 678, 470 and 943 are laid over both.
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Atlanta has four area codes.
Pick 404 for the city of Atlanta, 770 for the suburbs, or 678 or 470 for the whole metro area.
Pick 678 or 470 if the number should work for the whole metro area.
Both cover metro Atlanta, the same area as 404 and 770, from Marietta and Roswell to Alpharetta and Lawrenceville.
Pick 770 if the number is for the suburbs.
770 covers the Atlanta metro counties outside the city limits. It was split from 404 on August 1, 1995.
People filed 697 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from Atlanta area codes in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 697 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with 470, 404, 678 and 943. 470 was named most, on 296 of them (42%).
- 697unwanted-call complaints named a Atlanta code
- 470was named on the most of them, 296
- 42%of the Atlanta complaints named 470
Source: Federal Communications Commission, CGB - Consumer Complaints Data (dataset 3xyp-aqkj), issue "Unwanted Calls", read on November 4, 2026. Caller ID can be faked, so a code shows what appeared on the phone, not where the caller was.
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People ask these questions about Atlanta area codes.
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Yes, for the metro area outside the city limits. 770 was split from 404 in 1995, and it has its own page here.
404, from 1947. 706 was split from it in 1992 and 770 in 1995.
A local call in Atlanta is dialed with ten digits, whichever of its codes the number starts with. The area code is part of every number you give out.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people filed 697 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Atlanta code: 470 (296), 404 (173), 678 (136) and 943 (92). A complaint is one person's report. Caller ID can be faked, so a code shows what appeared on the phone, not where the caller was.
Yes. You type the area code you want when you create a number, and you do not need to live in Atlanta. Calls ring the phone you already have, and texts land in your ExpressNumber inbox.
No. Your numbers are receive-only: they take calls and texts, and they never make them. You answer calls on your own phone, and you cannot reply to a text from the inbox.
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The codes, the places and the years are rows of the North American Numbering Plan Administrator's area code database, and the complaints are the FCC's own.
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