Pick 804 if the number should read as Richmond.
The numbering administrator names Richmond, the state capital, with Chesterfield, Henrico and Petersburg.
The area codes for Richmond are 804 and 686.
Area codes in Richmond
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Richmond uses 804, in service since 1973, and 686, laid over it in 2024. The area is the central part of eastern Virginia, around the state capital.
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Richmond has two area codes.
- 804Since 1973Richmond and central VirginiaChesterfieldHenricoPetersburg
423 FCC complaints
Get an 804 number - 686Since 2024Overlay code
6 FCC complaints
Pick 804 for Richmond, the code the capital has had since 1973.
Pick 804 to reach Ashland and Mechanicsville too.
Midlothian, Hopewell and Chester are in the same code.
Pick 757 if the number is for Norfolk or Virginia Beach.
757 was split from 804 on July 1, 1996.
People filed 429 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from Richmond area codes in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 429 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with 804 and 686. 804 was named most, on 423 of them (99%).
- 429unwanted-call complaints named a Richmond code
- 804was named on the most of them, 423
- 99%of the Richmond complaints named 804
Richmond codes
How many complaints named a caller ID that starts with each Richmond code.
- 1804Richmond and central Virginia423
- 2686Overlay code6
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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434 was split from it on June 1, 2001, which left 804 with the eastern section around Richmond.
The State Corporation Commission approved an overlay on November 16, 2022, and 686 was laid over 804 in 2024.
A local call in Richmond 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 429 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Richmond code: 804 (423) and 686 (6). 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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