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Texas has 29 area codes: 214, 512, 713, 915, 817, 806, 409, 903, 210, 972, 281, 254, 940, 830, 956, 832, 361, 469, 936, 979, 682, 430, 325, 432, 737, 346, 726, 945 and 621.

Area codes in Texas

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214, 713, 512 and 210 are the codes of Dallas, Houston, Austin and San Antonio, and four of the five biggest metro areas have later codes laid over them. 915 is El Paso, and 806 covers Lubbock and Amarillo.

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Texas has 29 area codes.

In the order they opened.

621

The newest area code in Texas is 621.

621 went into service in 2025 over the Houston area, where it joins 713, 281, 832 and 346.

Pick 214 for Dallas, 713 for Houston, 512 for Austin or 210 for San Antonio.

Pick 817 if the number is for Fort Worth or Arlington.

817 has covered Fort Worth since 1953, and 682 was laid over it in 2000. Dallas next door is a different code.

Pick 915 for El Paso, or 806 for Lubbock and Amarillo.

915 and 806 are the codes of the far west and the north of the state. Neither one has had another code laid over it.

Pick 956 for the south or 361 for the coast.

956 covers Laredo, McAllen and Brownsville, and 361 covers Corpus Christi, Victoria and Kingsville.

People filed 3,502 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from Texas area codes in 12 months.

From October 2025 to September 2026, 3,502 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with one of the Texas codes. 956 was named most, on 314 of them (9%).

  • 3,502unwanted-call complaints named a Texas code
  • 956was named on the most of them, 314
  • 9%of the Texas complaints named 956

Texas codes

How many complaints named a caller ID that starts with each of the 10 Texas codes named most.

  1. 1956Laredo, McAllen and Brownsville314
  2. 2512Austin250
  3. 3806Lubbock and Amarillo234
  4. 4469Dallas228
  5. 5214Dallas206
  6. 6903Tyler, Longview and Texarkana199
  7. 7817Fort Worth and Arlington194
  8. 8972Dallas, Plano and Irving175
  9. 9832Houston165
  10. 10281Greater Houston151

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 Texas area codes.

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Its big metro areas each carry several codes at once. Four share the Dallas area (214, 469, 945 and 972), five share the Houston area (713, 281, 832, 346 and 621), and Austin, San Antonio and Fort Worth have two each.

Yes, today it is. 915 once covered all of west Texas, and in 2003 two codes were split from it: 325, which covers Abilene and San Angelo, and 432.

Texas has 29 area codes in service, by the numbering administrator's report of October 23, 2026: 214, 512, 713, 915, 817, 806, 409, 903, 210, 972, 281, 254, 940, 830, 956, 832, 361, 469, 936, 979, 682, 430, 325, 432, 737, 346, 726, 945 and 621. They are listed in the order they opened, from 1947 to 2025.

The newest area code in Texas is 621, in service since 2025. 621 went into service in 2025 over the Houston area, where it joins 713, 281, 832 and 346.

From October 2025 to September 2026, people filed 3,502 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Texas code. The five named most were 956 (314), 512 (250), 806 (234), 469 (228) and 214 (206). 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 Texas. 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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Every fact on this page comes from public numbering records.

The codes, the places and the years are rows of the North American Numbering Plan Administrator's area code database (its report of October 23, 2026), and the complaints are the FCC's own.

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