Area codes in North Carolina

North Carolina has 10 area codes, per NANPA’s NPA report of 2026-09-27. The NANPA central office code report of 2026-09-27 lists 5,563 allocated central office codes there across 431 rate centres, 74.4% of them pooled; 97 were assigned in the twelve months from 2025-09-28.

The area codes of North Carolina

Each code with the place its page names, the year or day NANPA’s NPA report puts it in service, the codes it shares its area with, and the central office codes the NANPA central office code report allocates under it whose rate centre is in North Carolina. A rate centre is where the regulator recorded a code, not where a subscriber is.

code	place	in service	overlays	codes here	assigned, 12 months
252	—	1998-03-22	—	695	11
336	—	1997-12-15	743	783	1
472	—	2022-10-07	910	106	19
704	—	1947	980	780	0
743	—	2016-05-23	336	160	9
828	—	1998-03-22	—	723	22
910	—	1993-11-14	472	781	1
919	—	1954	984	778	0
980	—	2001-04-01	704	462	15
984	—	2012-04-30	919	295	19

A year alone means NANPA’s date is 1 January of that year, which it uses where it records no day.

Overlays and new area codes

336 and 743 serve one area: a number there can carry either code, so the area code alone does not place a number more precisely than the area.
472 and 910 serve one area: a number there can carry either code, so the area code alone does not place a number more precisely than the area.
704 and 980 serve one area: a number there can carry either code, so the area code alone does not place a number more precisely than the area.
919 and 984 serve one area: a number there can carry either code, so the area code alone does not place a number more precisely than the area.

What the NANPA central office code report holds for North Carolina

area codes	10
allocated codes	5,563 central office codes, 10,000 numbers each
rate centres	431
pooled codes	4,139 (74.4%)
codes assigned since 2025-09-28	97
thousands-blocks assigned since 2025-09-28	1,314

A pooled code is split into thousands-blocks of 1,000 numbers that other carriers may hold. The twelve months run to the table’s own date, so the figures change only when the table does.

Allocated codes by network brand

Each code is counted under the holder the NANPA central office code report lists for it, grouped under today’s network brand. That is the code’s original allocation, never who serves a number today, since numbers move between carriers, and the shares are shares of the regulator’s table, not of subscribers or traffic. In a pooled code the thousands-blocks can be held by other carriers; this counts the code’s holder.

brand	codes	share
AT&T	1,267	22.8%
Verizon	765	13.8%
T-Mobile	593	10.7%
Brightspeed	485	8.7%
Windstream	482	8.7%
Inteliquent	435	7.8%
Lumen	396	7.1%
Bandwidth	172	3.1%
Not under a listed brand (79 holders)	968	17.4%

Where these figures come from

The codes, rate centres, pooling and assignment dates are counted from the NANPA central office code report of 2026-09-27, and the area codes, overlays and in-service dates from NANPA’s NPA report of 2026-09-27. Counts only: no row of either file is republished here. The publisher, its files and its terms are on the data source page. Every area code of the United States is on the United States page, the codes put in service lately or still to come across North America on new and upcoming area codes, and any number can be read on the free phone number lookup.

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