Pick 954 if the number should read as Fort Lauderdale.
954 covers Broward County, and the Florida Public Service Commission lists five rate centers in it: Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood, Pompano Beach, Deerfield Beach and Coral Springs.
The area codes for Fort Lauderdale are 954 and 754.
Area codes in Fort Lauderdale
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Fort Lauderdale is the center of 954, the Broward County code since 1995, and 754 was laid over it in 2001. Hollywood and Pompano Beach share both.
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Pick 954 for Fort Lauderdale, or 754 if you want the code laid over it.
Pick 754 if the number should look newer.
754 entered service on August 1, 2001, after the commission approved the overlay on October 20, 2000.
Pick 305 if the number is for Miami.
Dade and Monroe counties, with the Miami area, kept 305 when 954 was split from it in 1995.
People filed 260 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from Fort Lauderdale area codes in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 260 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with 954 and 754. 954 was named most, on 164 of them (63%).
- 260unwanted-call complaints named a Fort Lauderdale code
- 954was named on the most of them, 164
- 63%of the Fort Lauderdale complaints named 954
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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No. Miami-Dade County uses 305, 786 and 645. Fort Lauderdale is in Broward County and uses 954 and 754.
By 2000 the county needed more numbers than one code can give, so 754 was laid over 954.
A local call in Fort Lauderdale 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 260 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Fort Lauderdale code: 954 (164) and 754 (96). 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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