Pick 414 if the number should read as Milwaukee.
The rate center map labels Wauwatosa, West Allis, Greenfield, Oak Creek, Franklin and Shorewood on the Milwaukee side of the line.
The area code for Milwaukee is 414.
Area codes in Milwaukee
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414 is the one code of Milwaukee and the original code of the city, in service since 1947. No second code has been laid over it.
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Milwaukee has one area code.
Pick 414 for Milwaukee, the code the city has had since 1947.
Pick 262 if the number is for Waukesha, Racine or Kenosha.
262 took the rest of the old area on September 25, 1999.
Pick 920 if the number is for Green Bay or Appleton.
920 took the northern exchanges on July 26, 1997.
People filed 131 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from the Milwaukee area code in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 131 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with 414.
- 131unwanted-call complaints named a Milwaukee code
Milwaukee codes
How many complaints named a caller ID that starts with the Milwaukee code.
- 1414Milwaukee131
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. Waukesha uses 262, which took the remaining part of the old 414 area in 1999.
Wauwatosa, West Allis, Oak Creek and Whitefish Bay all use 414.
A local call in Milwaukee is dialed with ten digits. The area code is part of every number you give out.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people filed 131 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Milwaukee code: 414 (131). 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, and the complaints are the FCC's own.
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