List of Virginia area codes
The Commonwealth of Virginia is divided into six geographically distinct numbering plan areas (NPAs) in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) with a total of ten area codes.
| Area code |
Year | Parent NPA |
Overlay | Numbering plan area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 703 | 1947 | – | 571/703 | Northern Virginia, including the cities of Alexandria, Fairfax, and Falls Church as well as Arlington, Fairfax, and Loudoun counties |
| 571 | 2000 | 703 | ||
| 804 | 1973 | 703 | 686/804 | Eastern Central Virginia the Northern Neck, and the Middle Peninsula including Mechanicsville, Petersburg, and Richmond |
| 686 | 2024 | 804 | ||
| 540 | 1995 | 703 | 540/826 | Central and North including Fredericksburg, Roanoke, Warrenton, and Winchester |
| 826 | 2022 | 540 | ||
| 757 | 1996 | 804 | 757/948 | Hampton Roads region and Southeast corner including Hampton, Newport News, Williamsburg, Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, and the Eastern Shore on the Delmarva Peninsula |
| 948 | 2022 | 757 | ||
| 276 | 2001 | 540 | – | Southwest corner of the state, including Bristol, Galax, Martinsville, and Wytheville |
| 434 | 2001 | 804 | – | South central area including Charlottesville and Lynchburg |
