Pick 317 or 463 if the number is for Indianapolis.
317 is an original code of 1947, and 463 was laid over it in 2016, with Carmel, Fishers and Noblesville in both.
Indiana has eight area codes: 317, 812, 219, 765, 260, 574, 930 and 463.
317 and 463 are Indianapolis, 812 covers southern Indiana from Evansville to Bloomington, 219 is Gary and the northwest, 260 is Fort Wayne, and 574 is South Bend.
In the order they opened.
115 FCC complaints
Get a 317 number63 FCC complaints
Get an 812 number80 FCC complaints
Get a 219 number75 FCC complaints
Get a 765 number56 FCC complaints
Get a 260 number65 FCC complaints
Get a 574 number34 FCC complaints
39 FCC complaints
Get a 463 number463 entered service in 2016, laid over 317 around Indianapolis, Carmel and Fishers. 930, from 2015, was laid over 812.
317 is an original code of 1947, and 463 was laid over it in 2016, with Carmel, Fishers and Noblesville in both.
Both were split from 219 on the same day in 2002, 260 for the northeast and 574 for the north-central part of the state.
765 was split from 317 in 1997 and covers Lafayette and central Indiana, with Anderson too.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 527 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with one of the Indiana codes. 317 was named most, on 115 of them (22%).
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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812, which covers southern Indiana. Bloomington, Terre Haute, Columbus and New Albany are on it too.
219 covers northwest Indiana: Gary, Hammond, Valparaiso, Michigan City and Merrillville. Fort Wayne and South Bend were split from it in 2002.
Indiana has eight area codes in service, by the numbering administrator's report of October 23, 2026: 317, 812, 219, 765, 260, 574, 930 and 463. They are listed in the order they opened, from 1947 to 2016.
The newest area code in Indiana is 463, in service since 2016. 463 entered service in 2016, laid over 317 around Indianapolis, Carmel and Fishers. 930, from 2015, was laid over 812.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people filed 527 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with an Indiana code. The five named most were 317 (115), 219 (80), 765 (75), 574 (65) and 812 (63). 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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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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