Pick 314 if the number should read as St. Louis.
314 names Florissant, Bridgeton, Overland, Creve Coeur, Kirkwood and Webster Groves with the city.
The area codes for St. Louis are 314 and 557.
Area codes in St. Louis
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St. Louis is in 314, one of Missouri’s two original codes, and 557, laid over it in 2022. The area is small, just St. Louis and the places closest to it.
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St. Louis has two area codes.
- 314Since 1947St. LouisFlorissantKirkwoodWebster Groves
144 FCC complaints
Get a 314 number - 557Since 2022Overlay code
2 FCC complaints
Pick 314 for St. Louis, the code the city has had since 1947.
Pick 636 if the number is for the suburbs farther out.
636 was split from 314 in 1999.
Pick 573 if the number is for Columbia or Jefferson City.
573 was split from 314 in 1996, and the Missouri map shows Columbia and Jefferson City inside it.
People filed 146 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from St. Louis area codes in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 146 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with 314 and 557. 314 was named most, on 144 of them (99%).
- 146unwanted-call complaints named a St. Louis code
- 314was named on the most of them, 144
- 99%of the St. Louis complaints named 314
St. Louis codes
How many complaints named a caller ID that starts with each St. Louis code.
- 1314St. Louis144
- 2557Overlay code2
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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Two codes were split from it: 573 in 1996 and 636 in 1999.
On August 12, 2022, when 557 entered service. The overlay was first approved on October 24, 2000, and the commission gave notice to go ahead on August 11, 2021.
A local call in St. Louis 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 146 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a St. Louis code: 314 (144) and 557 (2). 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, and the complaints are the FCC's own.
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