Pick 608 if the number should read as Madison.
The numbering administrator names the state capital first, with Beloit, Janesville and La Crosse.
The area codes for Madison are 608 and 353.
Area codes in Madison
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Madison is in 608, in service since 1955, and 353, laid over it in 2023. The area covers southwestern Wisconsin, from Madison to La Crosse.
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Madison has two area codes.
Pick 608 for Madison, which shares it with Janesville and La Crosse.
Pick 608 to reach Middleton and Sun Prairie too.
Stoughton, Platteville and Wisconsin Dells are in the same code.
Pick 414 if the number is for Milwaukee.
Milwaukee uses 414, which has been the city’s code since 1947.
People filed 114 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from Madison area codes in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 114 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with 608.
- 114unwanted-call complaints named a Madison code
Madison codes
How many complaints named a caller ID that starts with each Madison code.
- 1608Madison and southwestern Wisconsin114
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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No. Madison uses 608 and Milwaukee uses 414.
On September 15, 2023, when 353 entered service. The Public Service Commission had approved it on September 16, 2022.
A local call in Madison is dialed with 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 114 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Madison code: 608 (114). 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 Madison. 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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