Pick 714 if the number should read as Huntington Beach.
The northern part of the old area, with Huntington Beach and most of Santa Ana and Tustin, kept 714 when 949 was split off.
The area codes for Huntington Beach are 714 and 657.
Huntington Beach is on the Orange County coast and uses 714 and 657. It kept 714 in 1998, when the south of the old area was split off as 949.
The northern part of the old area, with Huntington Beach and most of Santa Ana and Tustin, kept 714 when 949 was split off.
Fountain Valley, Westminster and Garden Grove, the neighbors of Huntington Beach, are in the same two codes.
949 covers most of southern Orange County and began on April 18, 1998.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 132 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with 714 and 657. 714 was named most, on 75 of them (57%).
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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714. 949 lies to its south, with Newport Beach and Irvine.
No. It kept 714 when 949 was split off, so its numbers did not change.
A local call in Huntington Beach is dialed with 1 plus 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 132 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Huntington Beach code: 714 (75) and 657 (57). 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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