Pick 501 if the number should read as Little Rock.
The Arkansas Public Service Commission kept 501 in the Greater Little Rock area.
The area code for Little Rock is 501.
Area codes in Little Rock
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501 is the one code of Little Rock. It was assigned to the whole state of Arkansas in 1947 and now serves the Greater Little Rock area.
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Little Rock has one area code.
Pick 501 for Little Rock, the code the state capital has always had.
Pick 501 to reach Conway and Hot Springs too.
Benton, Searcy, Cabot and Maumelle are on the same rate center list.
Pick 479 if the number is for the western part of the state.
479 took that part on January 19, 2002.
People filed 99 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from the Little Rock area code in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 99 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with 501.
- 99unwanted-call complaints named a Little Rock code
Little Rock codes
How many complaints named a caller ID that starts with the Little Rock code.
- 1501Little Rock and central Arkansas99
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 the Little Rock area code.
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Yes. 501 covered the whole state in 1947, until 870 took the rest of the state on April 14, 1997.
No. 501 has never had a second code laid over it.
A local call in Little Rock is dialed with ten digits. The area code is part of every number you give out.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people filed 99 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Little Rock code: 501 (99). 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 Little Rock. Calls ring the phone you already have, and texts land in your ExpressNumber 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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