Pick 801 if the number should read as Salt Lake City.
801 serves American Fork, Bountiful, Kaysville, Ogden, Orem, Provo and Spanish Fork as well.
The area codes for Salt Lake City are 801 and 385.
Area codes in Salt Lake City
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Salt Lake City uses 801, in service since 1947, and 385, laid over it in 2009. The two cover the greater Salt Lake City area, with Ogden and Provo.
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Pick 801 for Salt Lake City, or 385 if you want the newer code.
Pick 385 if the number should look newer.
385 numbers became available from March 29, 2009. The Public Service Commission of Utah approved the overlay on July 12, 2007.
Pick 435 if your customers are elsewhere in Utah.
435 took the area outside the Salt Lake City, Ogden and Provo metropolitan area on September 21, 1997.
People filed 204 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from Salt Lake City area codes in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 204 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with 801 and 385. 801 was named most, on 114 of them (56%).
- 204unwanted-call complaints named a Salt Lake City code
- 801was named on the most of them, 114
- 56%of the Salt Lake City complaints named 801
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 Salt Lake City area codes.
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Yes. The Public Service Commission of Utah dropped an earlier plan to split 801 and approved the 385 overlay instead.
Yes. Provo, Orem and Ogden are in 801 and 385, along with Salt Lake City.
A local call in Salt Lake City 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 204 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Salt Lake City code: 801 (114) and 385 (90). 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 Salt Lake City. 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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