Pick 805 if the number should read as Oxnard.
In Ventura County the code serves Oxnard, Ventura, Thousand Oaks, Simi Valley and Camarillo.
The area codes for Oxnard are 805 and 820.
Area codes in Oxnard
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Oxnard uses 805, which dates from 1957, and 820, laid over it in 2018. The area runs up the coast from Ventura County through Santa Barbara to San Luis Obispo.
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Oxnard has two area codes.
- 805Since 1957Santa Barbara and VenturaOxnardThousand OaksSimi Valley
163 FCC complaints
Get an 805 number - 820Since 2018Overlay code
25 FCC complaints
Pick 805 for Oxnard, the code it has used since 1957.
Pick 805 to reach the central coast too.
Santa Barbara, Santa Maria and San Luis Obispo are in the same code, so one Oxnard number can serve them all.
Pick 661 if the number is for Bakersfield or Lancaster.
661 took the eastern part of the old 805 area in 1999.
People filed 188 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from Oxnard area codes in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 188 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with 805 and 820. 805 was named most, on 163 of them (87%).
- 188unwanted-call complaints named a Oxnard code
- 805was named on the most of them, 163
- 87%of the Oxnard complaints named 805
Oxnard codes
How many complaints named a caller ID that starts with each Oxnard code.
- 1805Santa Barbara and Ventura163
- 2820Overlay code25
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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It was cut in two. The coast kept 805, and the eastern part became 661.
No. Oxnard is in Ventura County. 805 was split from 213, the Los Angeles code, in 1957.
A local call in Oxnard is dialed with 1 plus 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 188 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Oxnard code: 805 (163) and 820 (25). 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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