Pick 502 for Louisville, Frankfort or Georgetown.
502 is an original code of 1947, and 270 was split from it in 1999.
Kentucky has five area codes: 502, 606, 270, 859 and 364.
Area codes in Kentucky
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502 is Louisville and Frankfort, 859 is Lexington and Northern Kentucky, 270 and 364 cover Bowling Green and western Kentucky, and 606 covers Ashland, Pikeville and the east.
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Kentucky has five area codes.
In the order they opened.
- 502Since 1947Louisville
613 FCC complaints
Get a 502 number - 606Since 1955Ashland, Pikeville and eastern Kentucky
90 FCC complaints
Get a 606 number - 270Since 1999Bowling Green and western Kentucky
421 FCC complaints
Get a 270 number - 859Since 2000Lexington and Northern Kentucky
54 FCC complaints
Get an 859 number - 364Since 2014Bowling Green and western Kentucky
47 FCC complaints
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364
The newest area code in Kentucky is 364.
364 entered service in 2014, laid over 270 in Bowling Green and western Kentucky.
Pick 502 for Louisville, 859 for Lexington, 270 for Bowling Green or 606 for eastern Kentucky.
Pick 859 for Lexington, Covington or Richmond.
859 was split from 606 in 2000 and also covers Florence and Nicholasville.
Pick 270 or 364 for Bowling Green, Owensboro or Hopkinsville.
364 was laid over 270 in 2014, so both cover Elizabethtown and Henderson as well.
People filed 1,225 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from Kentucky area codes in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 1,225 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with one of the Kentucky codes. 502 was named most, on 613 of them (50%).
- 1,225unwanted-call complaints named a Kentucky code
- 502was named on the most of them, 613
- 50%of the Kentucky complaints named 502
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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270 and 364 both cover Owensboro, along with Bowling Green, Elizabethtown and Hopkinsville.
606. It opened in 1955 and covers Ashland, Pikeville, Somerset and Hazard.
Kentucky has five area codes in service, by the numbering administrator's report of October 23, 2026: 502, 606, 270, 859 and 364. They are listed in the order they opened, from 1947 to 2014.
The newest area code in Kentucky is 364, in service since 2014. 364 entered service in 2014, laid over 270 in Bowling Green and western Kentucky.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people filed 1,225 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Kentucky code. The codes named were 502 (613), 270 (421), 606 (90), 859 (54) and 364 (47). 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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