Pick 502 if the number should read as Louisville.
The Kentucky Public Service Commission lists Louisville, Jeffersontown, Shively and Shepherdsville among the cities 502 serves.
The area code for Louisville is 502.
Area codes in Louisville
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502 is the one code of Louisville. It is one of the original codes of 1947, and it once served all of Kentucky before it was cut down twice.
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Louisville has one area code.
Pick 502 for Louisville, the code the city has kept since 1947.
Pick 502 to reach Frankfort too.
The state capital is in the same code, along with Georgetown, Shelbyville and Bardstown.
Pick 859 if the number is for Lexington.
859 was split from 606 on April 1, 2000, and covers Lexington and Northern Kentucky.
People filed 613 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from the Louisville area code in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 613 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with 502.
- 613unwanted-call complaints named a Louisville code
Louisville codes
How many complaints named a caller ID that starts with the Louisville code.
- 1502Louisville613
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 Louisville area code.
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No. Louisville uses 502 and Lexington uses 859.
In the 1950s 606 took the eastern half of the state, and in 1999 270 took the rest of the old area, except for Louisville and the land around it.
A local call in Louisville is dialed with seven digits. The area code is part of every number you give out.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people filed 613 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Louisville code: 502 (613). 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 Louisville. Calls ring the phone you already have, and texts land in your ExpressNumber inbox.
No. Your numbers are receive-only: they take calls and texts, and they never make them. You answer calls on your own phone, and you cannot reply to a text from the 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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