North Carolina Area Codes

Area codes: 10
ZIP codes: 1,081
Cities & towns: 759
Counties: 100

Every area code in North Carolina

All North Carolina area codes, what each primarily serves, and which share ground with another.
Area code	Primarily serves	Shares ground with	In service
252	Greenville	no overlay	1998
336	Greensboro	743	1997
472	Greensboro	910	2022
704	Charlotte	980	1947
743	Greensboro	336	2016
828	Asheville	no overlay	1998
910	Greensboro	472	1993
919	Raleigh	984	1954
980	Charlotte	704	2001
984	Raleigh	919	2012

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

Which codes share the same ground

North Carolina has 4 groups of codes that overlay one another: the codes inside a group cover the same territory rather than different parts of the state, so local calls there are dialled as ten digits.

252 and 828 have no overlay: each is the only code serving its own territory.

Where North Carolina's communities sit

Each point is a North Carolina community, plotted from its record coordinates. The outline is the convex envelope of those points — a footprint, not a boundary.

Reference points and footprint
Not an official NANPA boundary
Not a USPS delivery area

Largest North Carolina cities and their codes

largest 25

Scope every area code assigned to North Carolina. Source LocalCallingGuide NPA list (2026-07 NPA list) and geoinfo-dataset (full_dataset) ZIP→NPA (2018 snapshot). Updated 16 July 2026. Overlay relationships come from the numbering-plan authority; the city match is computed.