Pick 317 if the number should read as Indianapolis.
317 covers Marion, Hamilton, Hancock, Shelby, Johnson, Hendricks and Morgan counties, as the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission puts it.
The area codes for Indianapolis are 317 and 463.
Area codes in Indianapolis
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Indianapolis uses 317, one of Indiana’s two original codes, and 463, laid over it in 2016. The area covers the city and most of its suburbs.
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Pick 317 for Indianapolis, or 463 if you like a code that spells IND.
Pick 463 if you want the newer code.
463 entered service on November 15, 2016, a month after ten-digit dialing became mandatory. Its digits spell IND on a phone keypad.
Pick 765 if the number is for Muncie, Kokomo or Lafayette.
765 took the exchanges outside the Indianapolis metro area in 1997.
People filed 154 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from Indianapolis area codes in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 154 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with 317 and 463. 317 was named most, on 115 of them (75%).
- 154unwanted-call complaints named a Indianapolis code
- 317was named on the most of them, 115
- 75%of the Indianapolis complaints named 317
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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On a phone keypad, 4 is I, 6 is N and 3 is D. The commission approved 463 as an overlay of 317 on April 8, 2015.
Yes. Carmel, Fishers, Noblesville and Zionsville are on the rate center map for 317, and they use 463 as well.
A local call in Indianapolis 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 154 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Indianapolis code: 317 (115) and 463 (39). 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, and the complaints are the FCC's own.
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