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The area codes in the U.S. State of New Jersey are a component of the North American Numbering Plan. 201 : Northeastern New Jersey, primarily Bergen County and Hudson County. 551 : Overlays area code 201.
Area code 973 was created on June 1, 1997, in a split of area code 201, [1] [2] which was the original area code for of all of New Jersey when the North American Numbering Plan was inaugurated for nationwide operator dialing in 1947. In 1958, the numbering plan area of 201 was cut back to the northern half of the state, and in 1991 to just the ...
Numbering plan areas and area codes of New Jersey Map of numbering plan area 201/551. Area codes 201 and 551 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) in the U.S. State of New Jersey. Area code 201 was the area code assigned to the entire state of New Jersey in 1947, when the North American area code system was formed.
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List of New Jersey area codes; 0–9. Area codes 201 and 551; Area codes 609 and 640; Area codes 732 and 848; Area code 856; Area code 908; Area codes 973 and 862
The area includes Middlesex, Somerset, and Union counties in Northern and Central New Jersey, and Monmouth and northern Ocean counties on the New Jersey Shore. The assignment of area code 848 to the same numbering plan area in 2001 created an overlay complex for this region, after the pool of 732-numbers began to exhaust rapidly. [7]
Area codes with the middle digit 0 were assigned to numbering plan areas that comprised an entire state or province, while jurisdictions with multiple numbering plan areas received area codes having 1 as the second digit. This pattern lasted only until 1956, when New Jersey's "201" was divided.
Area code 856 was announced by Bell Atlantic in March 1999, and was approved by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities shortly thereafter. The new area code became operational on June 12, 1999. A permissive dialing period of five months ended on November 13, 1999, during which seven-digit was still permitted. Prior to October 2021, area code ...