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New Jersey has ten area codes: 201, 609, 908, 732, 973, 856, 551, 848, 862 and 640.

Area codes in New Jersey

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201 and 551 cover Hudson and Bergen counties, 973 and 862 cover Newark, Paterson and Morristown, 732 and 848 cover New Brunswick and Edison, 609 and 640 cover Trenton and Atlantic City, 908 is Plainfield and 856 is Camden.

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New Jersey has ten area codes.

In the order they opened.

640

The newest area code in New Jersey is 640.

640 entered service in 2018, laid over 609 in Trenton and Atlantic City.

Pick 201 for Jersey City, 973 for Newark, 732 for New Brunswick or 609 for Trenton.

Pick 201 or 551 for Jersey City, Hoboken or Hackensack.

201 is an original code of 1947, and 551 was laid over it on December 29, 2001.

Pick 973 or 862 for Newark, Paterson or Morristown.

973 was split from 201 in 1997, and 862 was laid over it in 2001.

Pick 609 or 640 for Trenton, Atlantic City or Princeton.

609 was split from 201 in 1957, and 640 was laid over it in 2018.

People filed 1,166 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from New Jersey area codes in 12 months.

From October 2025 to September 2026, 1,166 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with one of the New Jersey codes. 609 was named most, on 226 of them (19%).

  • 1,166unwanted-call complaints named a New Jersey code
  • 609was named on the most of them, 226
  • 19%of the New Jersey complaints named 609

New Jersey codes

How many complaints named a caller ID that starts with each New Jersey code.

  1. 1609Trenton, Atlantic City and the Jersey Shore226
  2. 2201Hudson and Bergen counties209
  3. 3856Camden and southwestern New Jersey186
  4. 4908Plainfield, Somerville and Flemington144
  5. 5551Hudson and Bergen counties107
  6. 6732New Brunswick, Edison and the Jersey Shore88
  7. 7862Newark, Paterson and Morristown81
  8. 8973Newark, Paterson and Morristown75
  9. 9848Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean counties31
  10. 10640Trenton and Atlantic City19

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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856, which covers Camden and southwestern New Jersey, with Cherry Hill, Vineland and Millville. It was split from 609 in 1999.

732 and 848 both cover Edison, along with New Brunswick, Perth Amboy and Woodbridge.

New Jersey has ten area codes in service, by the numbering administrator's report of October 23, 2026: 201, 609, 908, 732, 973, 856, 551, 848, 862 and 640. They are listed in the order they opened, from 1947 to 2018.

The newest area code in New Jersey is 640, in service since 2018. 640 entered service in 2018, laid over 609 in Trenton and Atlantic City.

A local call in New Jersey is dialed with ten digits, whichever of its ten codes the number starts with. The area code is part of every number you give out.

From October 2025 to September 2026, people filed 1,166 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a New Jersey code. The five named most were 609 (226), 201 (209), 856 (186), 908 (144) and 551 (107). 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 New Jersey. Calls ring the phone you already have, and texts land in your ExpressNumber inbox.

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Every fact on this page comes from public numbering records.

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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