Pick 201 if the number should read as Jersey City.
The municipal list for 201 names Jersey City, Hoboken, Bayonne, Union City, West New York, North Bergen and Secaucus in Hudson County.
The area codes for Jersey City are 201 and 551.
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Jersey City is in 201, one of the original codes of 1947, and 551, laid over it in 2001. Both cover Hudson and Bergen counties.
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Pick 201 for Jersey City, or 551 if you want the code laid over it.
Pick 551 if the number should look newer.
551 entered service on December 29, 2001, over the area that already had 201.
Pick 973 if the number is for Newark.
Newark and Paterson are in 973, which took the rest of the old 201 area in 1997.
People filed 316 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from Jersey City area codes in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 316 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with 201 and 551. 201 was named most, on 209 of them (66%).
- 316unwanted-call complaints named a Jersey City code
- 201was named on the most of them, 209
- 66%of the Jersey City complaints named 201
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 Jersey City area codes.
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Yes. Hoboken, Bayonne and Union City all use 201 and 551.
Three: 609 in 1957, 908 in 1990 and 973 in 1997.
A local call in Jersey City 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 316 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Jersey City code: 201 (209) and 551 (107). 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 Jersey City. Calls ring the phone you already have, and texts land in your ExpressNumber inbox.
No. Your numbers are receive-only: they take calls and texts, and they never make them. You answer calls on your own phone, and you cannot reply to a text from the inbox.
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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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