Pick 480 if the number should read as Tempe.
Tempe is on the commission’s list for 480, with Mesa, Chandler, Gilbert and Scottsdale.
The area codes for Tempe are 602, 480 and 623.
Area codes in Tempe
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Tempe, between Phoenix and Mesa, uses 480, 602 and 623. 480 was split from 602 in 1999, and in 2023 the three codes became one area.
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Tempe has three area codes.
Pick 480 for Tempe, or 602 to carry the original Phoenix code.
Pick 602 if you want the code Phoenix has had since 1947.
It covered most of Phoenix until 2023, and a 602 number can now be issued anywhere in the combined area, Tempe included.
Pick 928 if the number is for Flagstaff.
Flagstaff is in 928, which was split from 520 in 2001 and has no second code.
People filed 579 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from Tempe 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 Tempe code
- 480was named on the most of them, 328
- 57%of the Tempe 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 Tempe area codes.
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Yes. Both are covered by 480, 602 and 623, and the three joined into one area in 2023.
480 and 623 were both split from 602 on March 1, 1999. 480 took the east side and 623 the west.
A local call in Tempe 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 Tempe 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 Tempe. 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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