Pick 206 if the number is for Seattle, Shoreline or Mercer Island.
206 is an original code of 1947, and 360, 253 and 425 were all split from it, in 1995 and 1997.
Washington has six area codes: 206, 509, 360, 253, 425 and 564.
Area codes in Washington
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206 is Seattle, 253 is Tacoma, Kent and Federal Way, 425 is Bellevue, Everett and Renton, 360 covers Olympia, Bellingham and Vancouver, and 509 covers eastern Washington, from Spokane to Yakima.
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Washington has six area codes.
In the order they opened.
- 206Since 1947Seattle
189 FCC complaints
Get a 206 number - 509Since 1957Eastern Washington
495 FCC complaints
Get a 509 number - 360Since 1995Olympia, Bellingham and Vancouver
238 FCC complaints
Get a 360 number - 253Since 1997Tacoma, Kent and Federal Way
84 FCC complaints
Get a 253 number - 425Since 1997Bellevue, Everett and Renton
123 FCC complaints
Get a 425 number - 564Since 2017Seattle, Olympia and Vancouver
32 FCC complaints
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564
The newest area code in Washington is 564.
564 entered service in 2017, laid over 206 and 360 in Seattle, Olympia and Vancouver.
Pick 206 for Seattle, 425 for Bellevue, 253 for Tacoma or 509 for Spokane.
Pick 425 for Bellevue, Everett or Kirkland.
425 opened on April 27, 1997, the same day as 253, and it reaches Redmond and Renton too.
Pick 253 for Tacoma, or 360 for Olympia and Bellingham.
253 also covers Kent, Federal Way, Auburn and Puyallup, and 360 covers Vancouver and Bremerton.
People filed 1,161 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from Washington area codes in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 1,161 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with one of the Washington codes. 509 was named most, on 495 of them (43%).
- 1,161unwanted-call complaints named a Washington code
- 509was named on the most of them, 495
- 43%of the Washington complaints named 509
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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509, which covers eastern Washington: Spokane, Yakima, Richland, Pasco and Walla Walla.
No. Vancouver uses 360, with Olympia and Bellingham, and Seattle uses 206. 564 is laid over both.
Washington has six area codes in service, by the numbering administrator's report of October 23, 2026: 206, 509, 360, 253, 425 and 564. They are listed in the order they opened, from 1947 to 2017.
The newest area code in Washington is 564, in service since 2017. 564 entered service in 2017, laid over 206 and 360 in Seattle, Olympia and Vancouver.
A local call in Washington is dialed with ten digits, whichever of its six codes the number starts with. The area code is part of every number you give out.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people filed 1,161 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Washington code. The five named most were 509 (495), 360 (238), 206 (189), 425 (123) and 253 (84). 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 Washington. Calls ring the phone you already have, and texts land in your ExpressNumber 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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