Pick 213 if the number should read as downtown Los Angeles.
213 dates from 1947 and covers downtown and the cities around it, such as Glendale, Pasadena and West Hollywood.
The area codes for Los Angeles are 213, 818, 323, 747 and 738.
Area codes in Los Angeles
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213 and 323 cover downtown Los Angeles and the cities around it. 818 and 747 are the San Fernando Valley. 738 is the newest code, laid over 213 and 323.
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Los Angeles has five area codes.
- 213Since 1947Downtown Los AngelesGlendalePasadenaWest Hollywood
262 FCC complaints
Get a 213 number - 818Since 1984San Fernando ValleyLos AngelesGlendaleBurbank
142 FCC complaints
Get an 818 number - 323Since 1998Los AngelesGlendalePasadenaInglewood
119 FCC complaints
Get a 323 number - 747Since 2009Overlay code
44 FCC complaints
- 738Since 2024Overlay code
1 FCC complaint
Pick 213 for downtown, 323 for the city around it, or 818 for the San Fernando Valley.
Pick 323 if you want the code that took the ring around downtown.
323 was split from 213 in 1998. The line between the two was removed in 2017, so both cover the same area today.
Pick 818 if the number should read as the San Fernando Valley.
818 covers most of the Valley, from Burbank and Van Nuys to Northridge and Calabasas.
People filed 568 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from Los Angeles area codes in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 568 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with 213, 818, 323, 747 and 738. 213 was named most, on 262 of them (46%).
- 568unwanted-call complaints named a Los Angeles code
- 213was named on the most of them, 262
- 46%of the Los Angeles complaints named 213
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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310 covers the west side of Los Angeles County, from Malibu down to Torrance, and it includes parts of the City of Los Angeles. 424 is laid over it, and both have their own pages here.
Nothing today. 323 was split from 213 in 1998, and the line between them was removed in 2017, so a number in either one is in the same area.
A local call in Los Angeles is dialed with 1 plus 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 568 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Los Angeles code: 213 (262), 818 (142), 323 (119), 747 (44) and 738 (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.
Yes. You type the area code you want when you create a number, and you do not need to live in Los Angeles. 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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