Pick 651 if the number should read as St. Paul.
The 1998 letter lists St. Paul and its suburbs, with Stillwater, Hastings, Red Wing, Lake City and Wabasha.
The area code for St. Paul is 651.
Area codes in St. Paul
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651 is the one code of St. Paul. It was split from 612 on July 12, 1998, and it covers the city and its suburbs, from Woodbury to White Bear Lake.
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St. Paul has one area code.
Pick 651 for St. Paul, which Minneapolis does not share.
Pick 651 for the suburbs to the east and south.
Woodbury, Eagan, Cottage Grove and Maplewood use the same code.
Pick 612 if the number is for Minneapolis.
Minneapolis kept 612 when 651 was split off.
People filed 61 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from the St. Paul area code in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 61 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with 651.
- 61unwanted-call complaints named a St. Paul code
St. Paul codes
How many complaints named a caller ID that starts with the St. Paul code.
- 1651St. Paul and its suburbs61
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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No. Minneapolis uses 612, and St. Paul uses 651.
651 entered service on July 12, 1998, and using it became mandatory for most numbers on January 11, 1999.
A local call in St. Paul is dialed with seven digits. The area code is part of every number you give out.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people filed 61 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a St. Paul code: 651 (61). 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 St. Paul. Calls ring the phone you already have, and texts land in your ExpressNumber inbox.
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