Pick 757 if the number should read as Chesapeake.
Chesapeake is the last of the four South Hampton Roads cities the administrator names for 757.
The area codes for Chesapeake are 757 and 948.
Area codes in Chesapeake
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Chesapeake uses 757 and 948, the two codes of Hampton Roads. 948 was laid over 757 in 2022, after the commission approved it on February 5, 2020.
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Pick 757 for Chesapeake, or 948 for the same area.
Pick 948 if you want the second Hampton Roads code.
Permissive ten-digit dialing began on September 11, 2021, and 948 followed in 2022.
Pick 252 if the number is for the Outer Banks side of the border.
North Carolina begins just south of Chesapeake, and the eastern part of that state has its own code.
People filed 191 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from Chesapeake area codes in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 191 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with 757 and 948. 757 was named most, on 169 of them (88%).
- 191unwanted-call complaints named a Chesapeake code
- 757was named on the most of them, 169
- 88%of the Chesapeake complaints named 757
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 Chesapeake area codes.
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Yes. Norfolk, Chesapeake, Portsmouth and Suffolk all use 757 and 948.
Ten digits became mandatory on April 9, 2022, once the second code was on its way.
A local call in Chesapeake 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 191 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Chesapeake code: 757 (169) and 948 (22). 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 Chesapeake. 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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