Lexington North Carolina Area Codes

2 area codes cover Lexington: 336 and 743. A number carrying any of them is local to Lexington.

The codes covering Lexington

Area codes covering Lexington, North Carolina, with what each one primarily serves.
Area codePrimarily servesShares ground withIn service
336Greensboro7431997
743Greensboro3362016

A code in the “shares ground” column is an overlay: it covers the same territory rather than a different part of Lexington, which is why local calls there are dialled as ten digits.

Scope the codes matched to Lexington. Source geoinfo-dataset (full_dataset) ZIP→NPA (2018 snapshot) and LocalCallingGuide NPA list (2026-07 NPA list). Updated . Overlay relationships come from the numbering-plan authority; the place match is computed.

Which part of town has which code

We do not publish which of these codes covers which street or neighbourhood in Lexington, and we would rather say so than guess. Area codes are drawn around telephone rate centres, which follow neither municipal boundaries nor ZIP codes, and the per-ZIP telephone data we hold is a 2018 snapshot too noisy to split a city with. Where these codes overlay one another the question has no answer at all: they cover the same ground by design. Awaiting a current, clean-rights rate-centre boundary source.

ZIP codes for the same city

Postal geography is organised separately from telephone geography, so Lexington’s 4 ZIP codes do not map onto the codes above. They are listed in full, with the county each falls in, on the postal side of the site.

Lexington North Carolina ZIP codes →

Nearby places with different codes

These are the closest places to Lexington whose area codes are not the same set. If you are near one of them, a local number may carry a code that is not on the list above.

The nearest places to Lexington covered by a different set of area codes.
CityDistanceTheir area codes
Spencer North Carolina area codes11 mi704, 980
East Spencer North Carolina area codes12 mi704, 980
Salisbury North Carolina area codes15 mi704, 980
Granite Quarry North Carolina area codes16 mi704, 980
Mocksville North Carolina area codes18 mi336, 704, 743, 980
Faith North Carolina area codes18 mi704, 980
Rockwell North Carolina area codes19 mi704, 980
Misenheimer North Carolina area codes22 mi704, 980

Straight-line distance between place reference points, not driving distance.