Pick 706 if the number should read as Augusta.
The commission lists Augusta among the major cities of 706, with Athens, Rome and Dalton.
The area codes for Augusta are 706 and 762.
Area codes in Augusta
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Augusta, on the eastern edge of Georgia, uses 706 and 762, the two codes of the state outside Atlanta. Athens and Columbus use the same pair.
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Pick 706 for Augusta, or 762 if the number should look newer.
Pick 762 if you want the second code.
The commission approved it on June 23, 2005, so no one had to change a number.
Pick 478 if the number is for Macon.
478 covers Macon, Warner Robins and Dublin, and it began on August 1, 2000.
People filed 240 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from Augusta area codes in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 240 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with 706 and 762. 706 was named most, on 153 of them (64%).
- 240unwanted-call complaints named a Augusta code
- 706was named on the most of them, 153
- 64%of the Augusta complaints named 706
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 Augusta area codes.
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No. Augusta uses 706 and 762. Atlanta has 404.
It covers the northern half of Georgia outside metro Atlanta, plus a western piece around Columbus.
A local call in Augusta 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 240 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Augusta code: 706 (153) and 762 (87). 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 Augusta. 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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