Pick 303 if the number should read as Aurora.
303 is one of the original codes of 1947. It names Aurora with Lakewood, Englewood, Littleton and Thornton.
The area codes for Aurora, Colorado are 303, 720 and 983.
Area codes in Aurora, Colorado
Get a phone number with the right area code for Aurora, Colorado.
Aurora, east of Denver, is covered by 303, 720 and 983. They are three codes for one area, and each can be issued anywhere in the Denver metro area.
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Aurora, Colorado has three area codes.
- 303Since 1947Denver and BoulderAuroraLakewoodLittleton
2,219 FCC complaints
Get a 303 number - 720Since 1998DenverAuroraLakewoodBoulder
316 FCC complaints
Get a 720 number - 983Since 2022Overlay code
33 FCC complaints
Pick 303 for Aurora, or 720 if you want the second code of the area.
Pick 720 if you want the code added in 1998.
720 entered service on June 1, 1998, laid over 303 so that no one had to change a number.
Pick 719 if the number is for Colorado Springs.
Colorado Springs took 719 in 1988. It is the only code in its area.
People filed 2,568 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from Aurora, Colorado area codes in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 2,568 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with 303, 720 and 983. 303 was named most, on 2,219 of them (86%).
- 2,568unwanted-call complaints named a Aurora, Colorado code
- 303was named on the most of them, 2,219
- 86%of the Aurora, Colorado complaints named 303
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 Aurora, Colorado area codes.
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Yes. Aurora, Denver, Lakewood and Boulder share the same three codes.
983, which entered service on June 17, 2022, after the commission approved it on May 21, 2021.
A local call in Aurora, Colorado 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 2,568 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Aurora, Colorado code: 303 (2,219), 720 (316) and 983 (33). 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.
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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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