Pick 316 if the number should read as Wichita.
316 is the Wichita metropolitan local calling area, and Derby, Newton, Andover and El Dorado are in it.
The area code for Wichita is 316.
Area codes in Wichita
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316 is the one code of Wichita. It once served southern Kansas, and since 2001 it has covered the Wichita area, with Derby, Newton and El Dorado.
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Wichita has one area code.
Pick 316 for Wichita, the original code of southern Kansas.
Pick 620 if your customers are in the rest of southern Kansas.
620 took most of the old 316 area on February 3, 2001.
Pick 913 if the number is for Kansas City, Kansas.
913 kept the Kansas City area in 1997 and is the original code of northern Kansas.
People filed 96 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from the Wichita area code in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 96 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with 316.
- 96unwanted-call complaints named a Wichita code
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 Wichita area code.
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The Kansas Corporation Commission approved a split on September 5, 2000, and 620 took most of the old area on February 3, 2001.
Yes. Newton, El Dorado, Augusta and Mulvane are on the list of communities that kept 316.
A local call in Wichita is dialed with seven digits. The area code is part of every number you give out.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people filed 96 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Wichita code: 316 (96). 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 Wichita. 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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