Pick 215 if the number should read as Philadelphia.
215 is one of the original codes of 1947. It still covers the city and the suburbs that run north from it.
The area codes for Philadelphia are 215, 267 and 445.
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215, 267 and 445 cover one shared area: the city of Philadelphia and a band of suburbs to the north, as far as Doylestown and Quakertown.
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Pick 215 for the original Philadelphia code, or 267 or 445 for the same area.
Pick 267 if you want the second Philadelphia code.
267 entered service in 1999 and covers the same area as 215, from the city to Lansdale and Souderton.
Pick 445 if you want the newest Philadelphia code.
445 entered service on March 3, 2018 and covers the same streets as 215 and 267.
People filed 322 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from Philadelphia area codes in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 322 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with 267, 215 and 445. 267 was named most, on 190 of them (59%).
- 322unwanted-call complaints named a Philadelphia code
- 267was named on the most of them, 190
- 59%of the Philadelphia complaints named 267
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 Philadelphia area codes.
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No. 610 was split from 215 in 1994 and covers the suburbs around the city, including Allentown and Reading. Philadelphia itself uses 215.
267 was laid over 215 in 1999, and 445 over both on March 3, 2018, so no one had to change a number. Local calls have needed all ten digits since June 1999.
A local call in Philadelphia 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 322 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Philadelphia code: 267 (190), 215 (81) and 445 (51). 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 Philadelphia. 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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