North Carolina area codes — detailed data

NANPA NPA database, current as of July 28, 2026.

Working detail for North Carolina's 10 area codes: history, capacity forecasts and dialing plans, straight from NANPA's NPA database.

Aggregate footprint: the state's 10 geographic codes currently carry 5,501 active NXX prefixes over 633 rate-center anchorings, with 4,077 prefixes in thousands-block pooling. 9 of the codes serve territory inside FCC top-100 metropolitan statistical areas.

Lineage: 252 came out of 919 in 1998; 336 came out of 910 in 1997; 472 came out of 910 in 2022; 743 came out of 336 in 2016; 828 came out of 704 in 1998; 910 came out of 919 in 1993; 980 came out of 704 in 2001; 984 came out of 919 in 2012. The remaining codes (704, 919) date back to the plan's early assignments.

Dialing plans: 8 codes use plain ten-digit local dialing (10D); 2 still allow seven-digit local calls. Overlay territories always dial ten digits; the 2021 988-hotline transition moved most others to ten digits as well.

The tightest capacity in the state is 828, projected to exhaust 2Q 2029.

Status: 1 with relief planning in progress — details in the table.

Code-by-code notes

336 — spawned 743; carved from 910; overlaid by 743; exhaust forecast 2Q 2071.

910 — spawned 336, 472; carved from 919; overlaid by 472; exhaust forecast 4Q 2050.

704 — spawned 828, 980; overlaid by 980; exhaust forecast 3Q 2038.

919 — spawned 910, 252, 984; overlaid by 984; exhaust forecast 1Q 2047.

828 — carved from 704; exhaust forecast 2Q 2029.

252 — carved from 919; exhaust forecast 1Q 2031.

980 — carved from 704; overlaid by 704; exhaust forecast 3Q 2038.

984 — carved from 919; overlaid by 919; exhaust forecast 1Q 2047.

743 — carved from 336; overlaid by 336; exhaust forecast 2Q 2071.

472 — carved from 910; overlaid by 910; exhaust forecast 4Q 2050.