Pick 515 if the number is for Des Moines, Ankeny or Ames.
515 is an original code of 1947, and 641 was split from it in 2000.
Iowa has five area codes: 319, 515, 712, 641 and 563.
Area codes in Iowa
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515 is Des Moines and Ames, 319 is Cedar Rapids and Iowa City, 712 is Sioux City and Council Bluffs, 563 is Davenport and Dubuque, and 641 is Mason City and Ottumwa. No Iowa code has a second code laid over it.
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Iowa has five area codes.
In the order they opened.
- 319Since 1947Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and Waterloo
81 FCC complaints
Get a 319 number - 515Since 1947Des Moines and Ames
125 FCC complaints
Get a 515 number - 712Since 1947Sioux City and Council Bluffs
131 FCC complaints
Get a 712 number - 641Since 2000Mason City, Marshalltown and Ottumwa
56 FCC complaints
Get a 641 number - 563Since 2001Davenport, Dubuque and Clinton
54 FCC complaints
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563
The newest area code in Iowa is 563.
563 entered service in 2001, split from 319, and covers Davenport, Dubuque, Clinton and Muscatine.
Pick 515 for Des Moines, 319 for Cedar Rapids, 563 for Davenport or 712 for Sioux City.
Pick 319 for Cedar Rapids, Iowa City or Waterloo.
319 is also original, and 563 was split from it in 2001 to take Davenport, Dubuque and Clinton.
Pick 641 for Mason City, Marshalltown or Ottumwa.
641 reaches Newton and Oskaloosa as well, and it opened on July 9, 2000.
People filed 447 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from Iowa area codes in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 447 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with one of the Iowa codes. 712 was named most, on 131 of them (29%).
- 447unwanted-call complaints named an Iowa code
- 712was named on the most of them, 131
- 29%of the Iowa complaints named 712
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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No. Sioux City uses 712 with Council Bluffs and Storm Lake, and Des Moines uses 515.
563, with Davenport, Clinton and Decorah. It was split from 319 in 2001.
Iowa has five area codes in service, by the numbering administrator's report of October 23, 2026: 319, 515, 712, 641 and 563. They are listed in the order they opened, from 1947 to 2001.
The newest area code in Iowa is 563, in service since 2001. 563 entered service in 2001, split from 319, and covers Davenport, Dubuque, Clinton and Muscatine.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people filed 447 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with an Iowa code. The codes named were 712 (131), 515 (125), 319 (81), 641 (56) and 563 (54). 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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