Pick 703 or 571 for Arlington, Alexandria or Fairfax.
703 is an original code of 1947, and 571 was laid over it in 2000.
Virginia has ten area codes: 703, 804, 540, 757, 571, 434, 276, 948, 826 and 686.
Area codes in Virginia
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703 and 571 cover Northern Virginia, from Arlington and Alexandria to Fairfax, 804 is Richmond, 757 and 948 cover Norfolk and Virginia Beach, 540 and 826 cover Roanoke and Fredericksburg, 434 is Lynchburg and 276 is Bristol.
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Virginia has ten area codes.
In the order they opened.
- 703Since 1947Arlington, Alexandria and Fairfax
115 FCC complaints
Get a 703 number - 804Since 1973Richmond and central Virginia
423 FCC complaints
Get an 804 number - 540Since 1995Roanoke, Harrisonburg and Fredericksburg
291 FCC complaints
Get a 540 number - 757Since 1996Norfolk, Virginia Beach and Newport News
169 FCC complaints
Get a 757 number - 571Since 2000Northern Virginia
332 FCC complaints
Get a 571 number - 434Since 2001Lynchburg, Charlottesville and Danville
329 FCC complaints
Get a 434 number - 276Since 2001Bristol, Martinsville and Abingdon
67 FCC complaints
Get a 276 number - 948Since 2022Norfolk, Virginia Beach and Newport News
22 FCC complaints
Get a 948 number - 826Since 2022Roanoke, Harrisonburg and Fredericksburg
21 FCC complaints
Get an 826 number - 686Since 2024No page yet
6 FCC complaints
686
The newest area code in Virginia is 686.
686 entered service in 2024, laid over 804 in Richmond and central Virginia.
Pick 703 for Arlington, 804 for Richmond, 757 for Norfolk or 540 for Roanoke.
Pick 757 or 948 for Virginia Beach, Norfolk or Newport News.
757 was split from 804 in 1996, and 948 was laid over it in 2022.
Pick 540 or 826 for Roanoke, Fredericksburg or Harrisonburg.
540 was split from 703 in 1995, and 826 was laid over it in 2022.
People filed 1,775 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from Virginia area codes in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 1,775 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with one of the Virginia codes. 804 was named most, on 423 of them (24%).
- 1,775unwanted-call complaints named a Virginia code
- 804was named on the most of them, 423
- 24%of the Virginia complaints named 804
Virginia codes
How many complaints named a caller ID that starts with each Virginia code.
- 1804Richmond and central Virginia423
- 2571Northern Virginia332
- 3434Lynchburg, Charlottesville and Danville329
- 4540Roanoke, Harrisonburg and Fredericksburg291
- 5757Norfolk, Virginia Beach and Newport News169
- 6703Arlington, Alexandria and Fairfax115
- 7276Bristol, Martinsville and Abingdon67
- 8948Norfolk, Virginia Beach and Newport News22
- 9826Roanoke, Harrisonburg and Fredericksburg21
- 10686No page yet6
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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434, which covers Charlottesville with Lynchburg, Danville, South Boston and Farmville.
276, which also covers Martinsville, Abingdon, Wytheville and Galax.
Virginia has ten area codes in service, by the numbering administrator's report of October 23, 2026: 703, 804, 540, 757, 571, 434, 276, 948, 826 and 686. They are listed in the order they opened, from 1947 to 2024.
The newest area code in Virginia is 686, in service since 2024. 686 entered service in 2024, laid over 804 in Richmond and central Virginia.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people filed 1,775 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Virginia code. The five named most were 804 (423), 571 (332), 434 (329), 540 (291) and 757 (169). 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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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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