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The area code for Bakersfield is 661.

Area codes in Bakersfield

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661 is the one code of Bakersfield. It was split from 805 in 1999 and no second code has been added, so a new local number in Bakersfield is a 661 number.

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Bakersfield has one area code.

Pick 661 for Bakersfield, which shares it with Lancaster, Palmdale and Santa Clarita.

Pick 661 if the number should read as Bakersfield.

661 was split from 805 on February 13, 1999. The commission names Bakersfield, Delano and Taft among its cities.

Pick 661 if you also work in Lancaster, Palmdale or Santa Clarita.

All three use the same code, so one Bakersfield number carries the same code in each of them.

Pick 805 if the number is for Ventura or Santa Barbara on the coast.

805 kept the coast when the eastern part of its area became 661 in 1999.

People filed 75 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from the Bakersfield area code in 12 months.

From October 2025 to September 2026, 75 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with 661.

  • 75unwanted-call complaints named a Bakersfield code

Bakersfield codes

How many complaints named a caller ID that starts with the Bakersfield code.

  1. 1661the Bakersfield and Lancaster area75

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 the Bakersfield area code.

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It was 805, the code of the Ventura and Santa Barbara coast. The eastern part of the old 805 area took 661.

No. 661 is the only code in its area, and no second code has been added to it.

A local call in Bakersfield is dialed with seven digits. The area code is part of every number you give out.

From October 2025 to September 2026, people filed 75 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Bakersfield code: 661 (75). 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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Every fact on this page comes from public numbering records.

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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