New Orleans Louisiana Area Codes

2 area codes cover New Orleans: 504 and 985. A number carrying any of them is local to New Orleans.

Scope the codes matched to New Orleans. Source geoinfo-dataset (full_dataset) ZIP→NPA (2018 snapshot) and LocalCallingGuide NPA list (2026-07 NPA list). Updated 16 July 2026. Overlay relationships come from the numbering-plan authority; the place match is computed.

We do not publish which of these codes covers which street or neighbourhood in New Orleans, and we would rather say so than guess.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.

Postal geography is organised separately from telephone geography, so New Orleans’s 61 ZIP codes do not map onto the codes above. They are listed in full, with the parish each falls in, on the postal side of the site.

New Orleans Louisiana ZIP codes →

These are the closest places to New Orleans 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.

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