Pick 901 if the number should read as Memphis.
The numbering administrator’s rate center list names Memphis, Collierville, Millington, Covington and Somerville.
The area code for Memphis is 901.
Area codes in Memphis
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901 is the one code of Memphis. It serves Fayette, Shelby and Tipton counties, and it has never had a second code laid over it.
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Memphis has one area code.
Pick 901 for Memphis, the code the city has had since 1947.
Pick 901 to reach Munford and Moscow too.
Mason, Lagrange and Rosemark use the same code.
Pick 615 if your customers are in Nashville.
Nashville has its own codes, 615 and 629, and its own page here.
People filed 322 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from the Memphis area code in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 322 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with 901.
- 322unwanted-call complaints named a Memphis code
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 Memphis area code.
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No. Nashville uses 615 and 629. Memphis uses 901.
On February 12, 2001 the rest of the old area was split off as 731, and Fayette, Shelby and Tipton counties kept 901.
A local call in Memphis is dialed with seven digits. The area code is part of every number you give out.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people filed 322 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Memphis code: 901 (322). 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 Memphis. 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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