Pick 623 if the number should read as Surprise.
The 1999 map labels Surprise with Peoria, El Mirage and Sun City West. 623 entered service on March 1, 1999.
The area codes for Surprise are 602, 480 and 623.
Area codes in Surprise
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Surprise, at the northwest edge of the Phoenix area, is in 623, 602 and 480. 623 covers the west side, and since 2023 the three codes serve one shared area.
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Surprise has three area codes.
Pick 623 for Surprise, which sits on the west side of the old 602 area.
Pick 602 if you like the oldest Arizona code.
602 was the only code in Arizona from 1947 until 520 was split from it in 1995.
Pick 928 if the number is for Prescott.
Prescott is in 928, which was split from 520 and began on June 23, 2001.
People filed 579 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from Surprise area codes in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 579 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with 480, 602 and 623. 480 was named most, on 328 of them (57%).
- 579unwanted-call complaints named a Surprise code
- 480was named on the most of them, 328
- 57%of the Surprise complaints named 480
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 Surprise area codes.
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Yes. Surprise is in the Maricopa part of the area, with Peoria and Sun City West.
Goodyear, Avondale, Buckeye and Litchfield Park are among them.
A local call in Surprise 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 579 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Surprise code: 480 (328), 602 (166) and 623 (85). 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 Surprise. 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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