Winston-Salem North Carolina Area Codes

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

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

Scope the codes matched to Winston-Salem. 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We do not publish which of these codes covers which street or neighbourhood in Winston-Salem, and we would rather say so than guess.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 Winston-Salem’s 25 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.

Winston-Salem North Carolina ZIP codes →

These are the closest places to Winston-Salem 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.