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Georgia has ten area codes: 404, 912, 706, 770, 678, 229, 478, 762, 470 and 943.

Area codes in Georgia

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404 is Atlanta, and 770, 678 and 470 cover metro Atlanta around it. 912 is Savannah and the southeast, 706 and 762 cover Augusta, Columbus and Athens, 478 is Macon, and 229 is Albany and the southwest.

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Georgia has ten area codes.

In the order they opened.

943

The newest area code in Georgia is 943.

943 entered service in 2022, laid over metro Atlanta, where it joins 404, 470, 678 and 770.

Pick 404 for Atlanta, 912 for Savannah, 478 for Macon or 229 for Albany.

Pick 770 for the suburbs outside Atlanta, or 678 or 470 for metro Atlanta.

770 covers Marietta, Roswell and Alpharetta outside the city, while 678 and 470 cover metro Atlanta as a whole.

Pick 706 or 762 for Augusta, Columbus or Athens.

706 was split from 404 in 1992, and 762 was laid over it in 2006.

Pick 912 for Savannah or 229 for Albany.

912 covers Savannah, Brunswick and Statesboro. 229 was split from it in 2000 for Albany, Valdosta and Thomasville.

People filed 1,496 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from Georgia area codes in 12 months.

From October 2025 to September 2026, 1,496 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with one of the Georgia codes. 470 was named most, on 296 of them (20%).

  • 1,496unwanted-call complaints named a Georgia code
  • 470was named on the most of them, 296
  • 20%of the Georgia complaints named 470

Georgia codes

How many complaints named a caller ID that starts with each Georgia code.

  1. 1470Metro Atlanta296
  2. 2912Savannah and Southeast Georgia210
  3. 3404Atlanta173
  4. 4706Augusta, Columbus and Athens153
  5. 5770Metro Atlanta, outside the city of Atlanta153
  6. 6678Metro Atlanta136
  7. 7478Macon, Warner Robins and Dublin100
  8. 8229Albany and Southwest Georgia96
  9. 9943No page yet92
  10. 10762Augusta, Columbus and Athens87

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 Georgia area codes.

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Outside the city limits, yes. 770 covers Marietta, Roswell and Alpharetta, while 404 covers Atlanta itself.

478, which also covers Warner Robins and Dublin. It was split from 912 in 2000.

Georgia has ten area codes in service, by the numbering administrator's report of October 23, 2026: 404, 912, 706, 770, 678, 229, 478, 762, 470 and 943. They are listed in the order they opened, from 1947 to 2022.

The newest area code in Georgia is 943, in service since 2022. 943 entered service in 2022, laid over metro Atlanta, where it joins 404, 470, 678 and 770.

From October 2025 to September 2026, people filed 1,496 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Georgia code. The five named most were 470 (296), 912 (210), 404 (173), 706 (153) and 770 (153). 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 Georgia. Calls ring the phone you already have, and texts land in your ExpressNumber inbox.

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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 (its report of October 23, 2026), and the complaints are the FCC's own.

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