Pick 248 or 947 for Troy, Southfield or Pontiac.
248 opened on May 10, 1997, and 947 was laid over it in 2002, so both cover Royal Oak and Birmingham as well.
Michigan has 13 area codes: 313, 517, 616, 906, 810, 248, 734, 231, 989, 586, 269, 947 and 679.
313 is Detroit, 248 and 947 cover Oakland County, 586 is Warren and Macomb County, 734 is Ann Arbor, 810 is Flint, 616 is Grand Rapids, 517 is Lansing, and 906 covers the Upper Peninsula.
In the order they opened.
145 FCC complaints
Get a 313 number104 FCC complaints
Get a 517 number78 FCC complaints
Get a 616 number15 FCC complaints
Get a 906 number99 FCC complaints
Get an 810 number112 FCC complaints
Get a 248 number127 FCC complaints
Get a 734 number108 FCC complaints
Get a 231 number94 FCC complaints
Get a 989 number70 FCC complaints
Get a 586 number57 FCC complaints
Get a 269 number29 FCC complaints
Get a 947 number1 FCC complaint
679 entered service in 2025, laid over 313 in Detroit and the Wayne County suburbs.
248 opened on May 10, 1997, and 947 was laid over it in 2002, so both cover Royal Oak and Birmingham as well.
586 covers Macomb County, and it opened on September 22, 2001.
231 also reaches Cadillac and Ludington, and 906 covers Marquette, Escanaba and Houghton.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 1,039 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with one of the Michigan codes. 313 was named most, on 145 of them (14%).
Michigan codes
How many complaints named a caller ID that starts with each of the 10 Michigan codes named most.
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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734, which covers Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, Livonia, Plymouth and Monroe.
269, which also covers Battle Creek, Niles, Sturgis and Benton Harbor.
Michigan has 13 area codes in service, by the numbering administrator's report of October 23, 2026: 313, 517, 616, 906, 810, 248, 734, 231, 989, 586, 269, 947 and 679. They are listed in the order they opened, from 1947 to 2025.
The newest area code in Michigan is 679, in service since 2025. 679 entered service in 2025, laid over 313 in Detroit and the Wayne County suburbs.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people filed 1,039 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Michigan code. The five named most were 313 (145), 734 (127), 248 (112), 231 (108) and 517 (104). 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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