Pick 803 or 839 for Columbia, Rock Hill or Sumter.
803 is an original code of 1947, and 839 was laid over it in 2020.
South Carolina has six area codes: 803, 864, 843, 854, 839 and 821.
Area codes in South Carolina
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803 and 839 cover Columbia, Rock Hill and Aiken, 864 covers Greenville, Spartanburg and Anderson, and 843 and 854 cover Charleston, Myrtle Beach and the coast.
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South Carolina has six area codes.
In the order they opened.
- 803Since 1947Columbia, Rock Hill and Aiken
128 FCC complaints
Get an 803 number - 864Since 1995Greenville, Spartanburg and Anderson
89 FCC complaints
Get an 864 number - 843Since 1998Charleston, Myrtle Beach and the South Carolina coast
129 FCC complaints
Get an 843 number - 854Since 2015Charleston, Myrtle Beach and the South Carolina coast
20 FCC complaints
Get an 854 number - 839Since 2020Columbia and central South Carolina
28 FCC complaints
Get an 839 number - 821Since 2024No page yet
821
The newest area code in South Carolina is 821.
821 entered service in 2024, laid over 864 in Greenville, Spartanburg and Anderson.
Pick 803 for Columbia, 864 for Greenville or 843 for Charleston.
Pick 864 for Greenville, Spartanburg or Anderson.
864 was split from 803 on December 3, 1995, and it reaches Greenwood and Greer too.
Pick 843 or 854 for Charleston, Myrtle Beach or Hilton Head Island.
854 was laid over 843 in 2015, and both reach Florence and Beaufort.
People filed 394 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from South Carolina area codes in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 394 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with one of the South Carolina codes. 843 was named most, on 129 of them (33%).
- 394unwanted-call complaints named a South Carolina code
- 843was named on the most of them, 129
- 33%of the South Carolina complaints named 843
South Carolina codes
How many complaints named a caller ID that starts with each South Carolina code.
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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843 and 854 both cover Myrtle Beach, along with Charleston, Florence, Hilton Head Island and Beaufort.
Yes. Aiken is on 803 and 839, the codes of Columbia, Rock Hill and Sumter.
South Carolina has six area codes in service, by the numbering administrator's report of October 23, 2026: 803, 864, 843, 854, 839 and 821. They are listed in the order they opened, from 1947 to 2024.
The newest area code in South Carolina is 821, in service since 2024. 821 entered service in 2024, laid over 864 in Greenville, Spartanburg and Anderson.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people filed 394 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a South Carolina code. The codes named were 843 (129), 803 (128), 864 (89), 839 (28) and 854 (20). 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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The codes, the places and the years are rows of the North American Numbering Plan Administrator's area code database (its report of October 23, 2026), and the complaints are the FCC's own.
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