Pick 757 if the number should read as Virginia Beach.
The numbering administrator names Norfolk, Portsmouth, Virginia Beach and Chesapeake in South Hampton Roads.
The area codes for Virginia Beach are 757 and 948.
Area codes in Virginia Beach
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Virginia Beach is in 757, split from 804 in 1996, and in 948, laid over it in 2022. The area is the southeast corner of Virginia, from Norfolk to the Eastern Shore.
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Pick 757 for Virginia Beach, or 948 if you want the code laid over it.
Pick 948 if the number should look newer.
948 entered service on May 9, 2022, a month after ten-digit dialing became mandatory.
Pick 804 if the number is for Richmond.
Richmond, Lynchburg and Charlottesville kept 804 when 757 was split from it on July 1, 1996.
People filed 191 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from Virginia Beach area codes in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 191 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with 757 and 948. 757 was named most, on 169 of them (88%).
- 191unwanted-call complaints named a Virginia Beach code
- 757was named on the most of them, 169
- 88%of the Virginia Beach complaints named 757
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 Virginia Beach area codes.
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No. Richmond has its own codes. Virginia Beach has used 757 since July 1, 1996.
Yes. Williamsburg, on the Lower Peninsula, is named for 757 with Newport News and Hampton.
A local call in Virginia Beach 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 191 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Virginia Beach code: 757 (169) and 948 (22). 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 Virginia Beach. 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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