Pick 727 if the number should read as St. Petersburg.
The 1998 list of the area’s phone offices names St. Petersburg, Clearwater, Largo, Dunedin and Tarpon Springs.
The area code for St. Petersburg is 727.
Area codes in St. Petersburg
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727 is the one code of St. Petersburg. It covers Pinellas County and west Pasco County, and Tampa, across the bay, uses 813.
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St. Petersburg has one area code.
Pick 727 for St. Petersburg, which shares it with Clearwater and Largo.
Pick 727 to include New Port Richey.
West Pasco County is in the area, with New Port Richey and Hudson.
Pick 813 if the number is for Tampa.
Tampa and the rest of Hillsborough County use 813.
People filed 157 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from the St. Petersburg area code in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 157 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with 727.
- 157unwanted-call complaints named a St. Petersburg code
St. Petersburg codes
How many complaints named a caller ID that starts with the St. Petersburg code.
- 1727Pinellas County and west Pasco County157
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. St. Petersburg has used 727 since July 1, 1998, when it was split from 813.
It replaced an overlay plan that the industry had agreed to in January 1998, after the Florida Public Service Commission approved a split.
A local call in St. Petersburg is dialed with seven digits. The area code is part of every number you give out.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people filed 157 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a St. Petersburg code: 727 (157). 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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