Pick 256 if the number should read as Huntsville.
The numbering administrator’s rate center map shows Madison, Decatur, Athens, Cullman and Scottsboro beside Huntsville.
The area codes for Huntsville are 256 and 938.
Area codes in Huntsville
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Huntsville is in 256, split from 205 in 1998, and in 938, laid over it in 2010. The area is the northeastern portion of Alabama.
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Huntsville has two area codes.
- 256Since 1998Huntsville, Gadsden and AnnistonMadisonDecaturFlorence
86 FCC complaints
Get a 256 number - 938Since 2010Overlay code
28 FCC complaints
Pick 256 for Huntsville, the code the city took in 1998.
Pick 256 to reach Gadsden and Anniston too.
Both are in the same code, as are Florence and Fort Payne.
Pick 205 if the number is for Birmingham.
Birmingham and Tuscaloosa kept 205 when the north took 256 on March 23, 1998.
People filed 114 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from Huntsville area codes in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 114 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with 256 and 938. 256 was named most, on 86 of them (75%).
- 114unwanted-call complaints named a Huntsville code
- 256was named on the most of them, 86
- 75%of the Huntsville complaints named 256
Huntsville codes
How many complaints named a caller ID that starts with each Huntsville code.
- 1256Huntsville, Gadsden and Anniston86
- 2938Overlay code28
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 Huntsville area codes.
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No. Birmingham uses 205 and 659. Huntsville has used 256 since 1998.
The Alabama Public Service Commission approved an overlay on March 3, 2009. Ten digits became mandatory on June 5, 2010, and 938 followed.
A local call in Huntsville 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 114 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Huntsville code: 256 (86) and 938 (28). 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 Huntsville. Calls ring the phone you already have, and texts land in your ExpressNumber inbox.
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