Virginia Area Codes

Area codes: 10
ZIP codes: 1,214
Cities & towns: 837
Counties and independent cities: 133

Every area code in Virginia

All Virginia area codes, what each primarily serves, and which share ground with another.
Area code	Primarily serves	Shares ground with	In service
276	Bristol	no overlay	2001
434	Lynchburg	no overlay	2001
540	Roanoke	826	1995
571	Alexandria	703	2000
686	Richmond	804	2024
703	Alexandria	571	1947
757	Virginia Beach	948	1996
804	Richmond	686	1973
826	Roanoke	540	2022
948	Virginia Beach	757	2022

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

Which codes share the same ground

Virginia 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.

276 and 434 have no overlay: each is the only code serving its own territory.

Where Virginia's communities sit

Each point is a Virginia 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 Virginia cities and their codes

largest 25

Scope every area code assigned to Virginia. 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.