Pick 973 if the number should read as Newark.
973 was split from 201 on June 1, 1997, and its municipal list names Newark, East Orange, Irvington, Bloomfield and Montclair.
The area codes for Newark are 973 and 862.
Area codes in Newark
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Newark uses 973, which took northern New Jersey outside Bergen and Hudson counties in 1997, and 862, laid over it in 2001. Paterson and Morristown share both.
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Pick 973 for Newark, or 862 if you want the code laid over it.
Pick 862 if the number should look newer.
862 entered service on December 29, 2001, four weeks after ten-digit dialing became mandatory.
Pick 201 if the number is for Jersey City or Hackensack.
Bergen and Hudson counties kept 201 in 1997, and 551 was laid over it in 2001.
People filed 156 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from Newark area codes in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 156 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with 862 and 973. 862 was named most, on 81 of them (52%).
- 156unwanted-call complaints named a Newark code
- 862was named on the most of them, 81
- 52%of the Newark complaints named 862
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. Newark uses 973 and 862. Jersey City is in Hudson County and uses 201 and 551.
973 took everything in northern New Jersey outside Bergen and Hudson counties, which kept 201.
A local call in Newark is dialed with ten digits, whichever of its codes the number starts with. The area code is part of every number you give out.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people filed 156 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Newark code: 862 (81) and 973 (75). 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 Newark. Calls ring the phone you already have, and texts land in your ExpressNumber inbox.
No. Your numbers are receive-only: they take calls and texts, and they never make them. You answer calls on your own phone, and you cannot reply to a text from the inbox.
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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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