West Virginia Area Codes

Area codes: 2
ZIP codes: 851
Cities & towns: 745
Counties: 55

Every area code in West Virginia

All West Virginia area codes, what each primarily serves, and which share ground with another.
Area code	Primarily serves	Shares ground with	In service
304	Charleston	681	1947
681	Charleston	304	2009

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

Which codes share the same ground

West Virginia has 1 group 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.

304 681

Where West Virginia's communities sit

Each point is a West 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 West Virginia cities and their codes

largest 25

Scope every area code assigned to West 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.