Pick 336 if the number should read as Greensboro.
The commission says 336 generally covers the Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point area.
The area codes for Greensboro are 336 and 743.
Area codes in Greensboro
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Greensboro is in 336, split from 910 in 1997, and 743, laid over it in 2016. Both cover the Piedmont, with Winston-Salem and High Point.
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Pick 336 for Greensboro, or 743 if you want the code laid over it.
Pick 743 if the number should look newer.
743 entered service on May 23, 2016, a month after ten-digit dialing became mandatory.
Pick 910 if the number is for Fayetteville.
The Fayetteville region kept 910 when the Greensboro region took 336.
People filed 119 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from Greensboro area codes in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 119 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with 336 and 743. 336 was named most, on 79 of them (66%).
- 119unwanted-call complaints named a Greensboro code
- 336was named on the most of them, 79
- 66%of the Greensboro complaints named 336
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 Greensboro area codes.
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No. Charlotte has 704 and 980. Greensboro uses 336 and 743.
Yes. High Point, Burlington and Kernersville all use 336 and 743.
A local call in Greensboro 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 119 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Greensboro code: 336 (79) and 743 (40). 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 Greensboro. Calls ring the phone you already have, and texts land in your ExpressNumber 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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