Pick 916 if the number should read as the Sacramento region.
Roseville, Rocklin, Lincoln and Loomis are the Placer County places named for 916.
The area codes for Roseville are 916 and 279.
Area codes in Roseville
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Roseville, in Placer County, uses 916 and 279, the codes of the Sacramento area. Rocklin, Lincoln and Loomis, its neighbors, use the same two.
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Pick 916 for Roseville, or 279 if you want the number to look newer.
Pick 279 for the second code of the same region.
It entered service in 2018 over the area of 916, and every local call is dialed with 1 plus all ten digits.
Pick 530 if the number is for Truckee or South Lake Tahoe.
Both are in 530, which was split from 916 in 1997.
People filed 292 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from Roseville area codes in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 292 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with 916 and 279. 916 was named most, on 259 of them (89%).
- 292unwanted-call complaints named a Roseville code
- 916was named on the most of them, 259
- 89%of the Roseville complaints named 916
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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Placer County. Sacramento County, to its south, contains the capital, and the two counties share 916 and 279.
Yes. Roseville has used 916 since 1947, and 279 joined it in 2018.
A local call in Roseville 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 292 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Roseville code: 916 (259) and 279 (33). 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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