Pick 302 for Wilmington, Newark or Middletown.
Delaware has no second code, so these towns use the same one as the rest of the state.
Delaware has one area code: 302.
Area codes in Delaware
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302 is the only area code in Delaware, and it covers the whole state, from Wilmington and Newark to Dover and Smyrna.
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Delaware has one area code.
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302
302 is the only area code in Delaware.
Nothing has been laid over 302 or split from it since 1947.
Pick 302, the one code Delaware has.
Pick 302 for Dover or Smyrna.
Dover and Smyrna use 302 as well, so one code covers Delaware from end to end.
People filed 208 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from Delaware area code in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 208 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with the Delaware code.
- 208unwanted-call complaints named a Delaware code
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 Delaware area codes.
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Yes. Newark uses 302, the same as Wilmington, Dover and Middletown.
No. 302 covers the whole state, and no other code has been added beside it.
Delaware has one area code, 302, in service since 1947, by the numbering administrator's report of October 23, 2026.
Delaware has one area code, 302, in service since 1947. Nothing has been laid over 302 or split from it since 1947.
A local call in Delaware is dialed with ten digits. The area code is part of every number you give out.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people filed 208 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Delaware code. The only one named was 302 (208). 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 Delaware. 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 (its report of October 23, 2026), and the complaints are the FCC's own.
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