Pick 504 if the number is for New Orleans or Kenner.
504 is an original code of 1947. 225 and 985 were both split from it, in 1998 and 2001.
Louisiana has six area codes: 504, 318, 225, 337, 985 and 457.
Area codes in Louisiana
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504 is New Orleans, 225 is Baton Rouge, 337 is Lafayette and Lake Charles, 985 is Houma, Slidell and Hammond, and 318 covers Shreveport, Monroe and Alexandria.
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Louisiana has six area codes.
In the order they opened.
- 504Since 1947New Orleans
83 FCC complaints
Get a 504 number - 318Since 1957Shreveport, Monroe and Alexandria
99 FCC complaints
Get a 318 number - 225Since 1998Baton Rouge
60 FCC complaints
Get a 225 number - 337Since 1999Lafayette and Lake Charles
41 FCC complaints
Get a 337 number - 985Since 2001Houma, Slidell and Hammond
30 FCC complaints
Get a 985 number - 457Since 2025No page yet
1 FCC complaint
457
The newest area code in Louisiana is 457.
457 entered service in 2025, laid over the 318 area around Shreveport, Monroe and Alexandria.
Pick 504 for New Orleans, 225 for Baton Rouge, 337 for Lafayette or 318 for Shreveport.
Pick 337 for Lafayette, Lake Charles or New Iberia.
337 was split from 318 in 1999 and covers Opelousas and Sulphur as well.
Pick 985 for Houma, Slidell or Hammond.
985 covers Thibodaux and Mandeville too, and it opened on February 12, 2001.
People filed 314 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from Louisiana area codes in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 314 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with one of the Louisiana codes. 318 was named most, on 99 of them (32%).
- 314unwanted-call complaints named a Louisiana code
- 318was named on the most of them, 99
- 32%of the Louisiana complaints named 318
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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225. It was split from 504 in 1998 and also covers Denham Springs, Gonzales and Zachary.
No. Shreveport uses 318, and Lafayette uses 337, which was split from 318 in 1999.
Louisiana has six area codes in service, by the numbering administrator's report of October 23, 2026: 504, 318, 225, 337, 985 and 457. They are listed in the order they opened, from 1947 to 2025.
The newest area code in Louisiana is 457, in service since 2025. 457 entered service in 2025, laid over the 318 area around Shreveport, Monroe and Alexandria.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people filed 314 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Louisiana code. The five named most were 318 (99), 504 (83), 225 (60), 337 (41) and 985 (30). 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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