Pick 520 if the number should read as Tucson.
The Arizona Corporation Commission calls the area the greater Tucson calling area and keeps the rate centers of Cochise, Pima, Pinal and Santa Cruz counties in it.
The area code for Tucson is 520.
Area codes in Tucson
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520 is the one code of Tucson. It was split from 602 in 1995, and it covers southern Arizona, including Sierra Vista, Nogales and Casa Grande.
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Pick 520 for Tucson, the only code for the whole of southern Arizona.
Pick 520 to cover Sierra Vista and Nogales too.
Douglas, Bisbee, Willcox and Eloy are also in 520, so one number serves the whole south.
Pick 602 if the number is for Phoenix.
Phoenix kept 602 when 520 was split off on March 19, 1995, and it now shares one area with 480 and 623.
People filed 257 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from the Tucson area code in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 257 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with 520.
- 257unwanted-call complaints named a Tucson code
Tucson codes
How many complaints named a caller ID that starts with the Tucson code.
- 1520Tucson and southern Arizona257
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 the Tucson area code.
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No. Tucson uses 520, and Phoenix uses 602, 480 and 623.
Northern Arizona was split off as 928 on June 23, 2001, and 520 kept the southern rate areas around Tucson.
A local call in Tucson is dialed with ten digits. The area code is part of every number you give out.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people filed 257 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Tucson code: 520 (257). 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 Tucson. 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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