Pick 601 or 769 for Jackson, Hattiesburg or Meridian.
601 is an original code of 1947, and 769 was laid over it in 2005.
Mississippi has five area codes: 601, 228, 662, 769 and 471.
Area codes in Mississippi
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601 and 769 cover Jackson and central Mississippi, 228 covers Biloxi, Gulfport and Pascagoula, and 662 covers Tupelo and northern Mississippi, from Southaven to Oxford.
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Mississippi has five area codes.
In the order they opened.
- 601Since 1947Jackson and central Mississippi
78 FCC complaints
Get a 601 number - 228Since 1997Biloxi, Gulfport and Pascagoula
70 FCC complaints
Get a 228 number - 662Since 1999Tupelo and northern Mississippi
42 FCC complaints
Get a 662 number - 769Since 2005Jackson and central Mississippi
20 FCC complaints
Get a 769 number - 471Since 2026No page yet
471
The newest area code in Mississippi is 471.
471 entered service in 2026, laid over 662 in Tupelo and northern Mississippi.
Pick 601 for Jackson, 228 for Biloxi or 662 for Tupelo.
Pick 228 for Biloxi, Gulfport or Ocean Springs.
228 was split from 601 in 1997 and also covers Pascagoula and Bay St. Louis.
Pick 662 for Tupelo, Southaven or Oxford.
662 was split from 601 in 1999, and it reaches Olive Branch and Horn Lake as well.
People filed 210 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from Mississippi area codes in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 210 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with one of the Mississippi codes. 601 was named most, on 78 of them (37%).
- 210unwanted-call complaints named a Mississippi code
- 601was named on the most of them, 78
- 37%of the Mississippi complaints named 601
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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601 and 769 both cover Vicksburg, along with Jackson, Hattiesburg, Meridian and Laurel.
228. Biloxi, Pascagoula, Ocean Springs and Bay St. Louis are on it too.
Mississippi has five area codes in service, by the numbering administrator's report of October 23, 2026: 601, 228, 662, 769 and 471. They are listed in the order they opened, from 1947 to 2026.
The newest area code in Mississippi is 471, in service since 2026. 471 entered service in 2026, laid over 662 in Tupelo and northern Mississippi.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people filed 210 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Mississippi code. The codes named were 601 (78), 228 (70), 662 (42) and 769 (20). 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 (its report of October 23, 2026), and the complaints are the FCC's own.
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