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North Carolina has ten area codes: 704, 919, 910, 336, 252, 828, 980, 984, 743 and 472.

Area codes in North Carolina

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704 and 980 are Charlotte, 919 and 984 are Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, 336 and 743 are Greensboro and Winston-Salem, 910 is Fayetteville and Wilmington, 252 is Greenville and Rocky Mount, and 828 is Asheville.

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North Carolina has ten area codes.

In the order they opened.

472

The newest area code in North Carolina is 472.

472 entered service in 2022, laid over 910 in Fayetteville, Wilmington and Jacksonville.

Pick 704 for Charlotte, 919 for Raleigh, 336 for Greensboro or 828 for Asheville.

Pick 704 or 980 if the number is for Charlotte, Gastonia or Concord.

704 is an original code of 1947, and 980 was laid over it in 2001.

Pick 919 or 984 for Raleigh, Durham or Chapel Hill.

984 was laid over 919 in 2012, so both cover Cary and Apex as well.

Pick 336 or 743 for Greensboro, Winston-Salem or High Point.

336 was split from 910 in 1997, and 743 was laid over it in 2016.

People filed 1,038 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from North Carolina area codes in 12 months.

From October 2025 to September 2026, 1,038 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with one of the North Carolina codes. 252 was named most, on 172 of them (17%).

  • 1,038unwanted-call complaints named a North Carolina code
  • 252was named on the most of them, 172
  • 17%of the North Carolina complaints named 252

North Carolina codes

How many complaints named a caller ID that starts with each North Carolina code.

  1. 1252Greenville, Rocky Mount and New Bern172
  2. 2980Charlotte and the surrounding area166
  3. 3910Fayetteville, Wilmington and Jacksonville136
  4. 4828Asheville and western North Carolina132
  5. 5704Charlotte117
  6. 6919Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill97
  7. 7336Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point79
  8. 8984Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill71
  9. 9743Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point40
  10. 10472No page yet28

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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828, which covers Asheville and western North Carolina, with Hickory, Hendersonville, Boone and Morganton.

910 covers Wilmington with Fayetteville, Jacksonville, Lumberton and Laurinburg. 472 is laid over it.

North Carolina has ten area codes in service, by the numbering administrator's report of October 23, 2026: 704, 919, 910, 336, 252, 828, 980, 984, 743 and 472. They are listed in the order they opened, from 1947 to 2022.

The newest area code in North Carolina is 472, in service since 2022. 472 entered service in 2022, laid over 910 in Fayetteville, Wilmington and Jacksonville.

From October 2025 to September 2026, people filed 1,038 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a North Carolina code. The five named most were 252 (172), 980 (166), 910 (136), 828 (132) and 704 (117). 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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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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