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Wisconsin has eight area codes: 414, 715, 608, 920, 262, 534, 274 and 353.

Area codes in Wisconsin

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414 is Milwaukee, 262 covers Waukesha, Racine and Kenosha, 920 covers Green Bay, Appleton and the northeast, 608 covers Madison and the southwest, and 715 and 534 cover Eau Claire, Wausau and the north.

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Wisconsin has eight area codes.

In the order they opened.

353

The newest area code in Wisconsin is 353.

353 entered service in 2023, laid over 608 in Madison and southwestern Wisconsin. 274, from earlier that year, was laid over 920.

Pick 414 for Milwaukee, 608 for Madison, 920 for Green Bay or 262 for Racine.

Pick 414 if the number is for Milwaukee, Wauwatosa or West Allis.

414 is an original code of 1947, and 920 and 262 were both split from it, in 1997 and 1999.

Pick 608 for Madison, Janesville or La Crosse.

608 opened in 1955 and also covers Sun Prairie and Beloit.

Pick 715 or 534 for Eau Claire, Wausau or Superior.

534 was laid over 715 in 2010, and both reach Stevens Point and Marshfield.

People filed 612 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from Wisconsin area codes in 12 months.

From October 2025 to September 2026, 612 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with one of the Wisconsin codes. 920 was named most, on 155 of them (25%).

  • 612unwanted-call complaints named a Wisconsin code
  • 920was named on the most of them, 155
  • 25%of the Wisconsin complaints named 920

Wisconsin codes

How many complaints named a caller ID that starts with each Wisconsin code.

  1. 1920Green Bay, Appleton and northeastern Wisconsin155
  2. 2414Milwaukee131
  3. 3262Waukesha, Racine and Kenosha118
  4. 4608Madison and southwestern Wisconsin114
  5. 5715Eau Claire, Wausau and northern Wisconsin90
  6. 6534Eau Claire, Wausau and northern Wisconsin4

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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920, which covers Green Bay, Appleton, Oshkosh, Sheboygan and Fond du Lac. It was split from 414 in 1997.

262, which covers Kenosha with Waukesha, Racine, Brookfield and New Berlin.

Wisconsin has eight area codes in service, by the numbering administrator's report of October 23, 2026: 414, 715, 608, 920, 262, 534, 274 and 353. They are listed in the order they opened, from 1947 to 2023.

The newest area code in Wisconsin is 353, in service since 2023. 353 entered service in 2023, laid over 608 in Madison and southwestern Wisconsin. 274, from earlier that year, was laid over 920.

From October 2025 to September 2026, people filed 612 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Wisconsin code. The five named most were 920 (155), 414 (131), 262 (118), 608 (114) and 715 (90). 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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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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