Pick 816 if the number should read as Kansas City.
816 names Independence, Lee’s Summit, St. Joseph, Blue Springs and Liberty with Kansas City.
The area codes for Kansas City, Missouri are 816 and 975.
Area codes in Kansas City, Missouri
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Kansas City, Missouri uses 816, one of Missouri’s two original codes, and 975, laid over it in 2023. Kansas City, Kansas, across the state line, uses 913.
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Kansas City, Missouri has two area codes.
- 816Since 1947Kansas City and northwestern MissouriIndependenceLee's SummitSt. Joseph
178 FCC complaints
Get an 816 number - 975Since 2023Overlay code
1 FCC complaint
Pick 816 for Kansas City, Missouri, the code the city has had since 1947.
Pick 913 if the number is for the Kansas side.
913 covers Overland Park, Olathe and Leavenworth, across the state line.
Pick 660 if your customers are outside the Kansas City area.
660 was split from 816 on October 12, 1997.
People filed 179 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from Kansas City, Missouri area codes in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 179 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with 816 and 975. 816 was named most, on 178 of them (99%).
- 179unwanted-call complaints named a Kansas City, Missouri code
- 816was named on the most of them, 178
- 99%of the Kansas City, Missouri complaints named 816
Kansas City, Missouri codes
How many complaints named a caller ID that starts with each Kansas City, Missouri code.
- 1816Kansas City and northwestern Missouri178
- 2975Overlay code1
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. 913 belongs to Kansas City, Kansas. Kansas City, Missouri uses 816.
On October 13, 2023, when 975 entered service. The Public Service Commission had first ordered an overlay in October 2000.
A local call in Kansas City, Missouri 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 179 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Kansas City, Missouri code: 816 (178) and 975 (1). 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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