Pick 505 for Albuquerque, Santa Fe or Rio Rancho.
505 was the only code in New Mexico from 1947 until 2007.
New Mexico has two area codes: 505 and 575.
Area codes in New Mexico
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505 covers Albuquerque and Santa Fe, with Rio Rancho, Farmington and Gallup, and 575 covers Las Cruces and Roswell, with Hobbs, Clovis and Carlsbad.
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New Mexico has two area codes.
In the order they opened.
- 505Since 1947Albuquerque and Santa Fe
85 FCC complaints
Get a 505 number - 575Since 2007Las Cruces and Roswell
36 FCC complaints
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575
The newest area code in New Mexico is 575.
575 entered service in 2007, split from 505, and covers Las Cruces and Roswell.
Pick 505 for Albuquerque and Santa Fe, or 575 for Las Cruces and Roswell.
Pick 575 for Las Cruces, Roswell or Hobbs.
575 was split from 505 on October 7, 2007, and it covers Clovis and Carlsbad too.
People filed 121 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from New Mexico area codes in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 121 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with one of the New Mexico codes. 505 was named most, on 85 of them (70%).
- 121unwanted-call complaints named a New Mexico code
- 505was named on the most of them, 85
- 70%of the New Mexico complaints named 505
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 New Mexico area codes.
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Yes. 505 covers Farmington and Gallup as well as Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Rio Rancho.
575, which covers Carlsbad with Las Cruces, Roswell, Hobbs and Clovis.
New Mexico has two area codes in service, by the numbering administrator's report of October 23, 2026: 505 and 575. They are listed in the order they opened, from 1947 to 2007.
The newest area code in New Mexico is 575, in service since 2007. 575 entered service in 2007, split from 505, and covers Las Cruces and Roswell.
A local call in New Mexico is dialed with ten digits, whichever of its two codes the number starts with. The area code is part of every number you give out.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people filed 121 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a New Mexico code. The codes named were 505 (85) and 575 (36). 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 Mexico. 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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