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Area code 919

Area code 919 serves North Carolina, including Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill (Eastern time). It has been in service since January 1, 1954 and shares its area with 984.

Numbers starting with 919 drew 1,711 reports to the FTC from Aug 14, 2026 to Nov 11, 2026 and 614 complaints to the FCC since November 2023. The number on your screen can be faked, so a 919 number proves nothing about where a call came from.

Location
North Carolina(durham-Chapel Hill, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area) and (raleigh-Cary, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area)
Time zone
Eastern
In service since
January 1, 1954
Overlay
Same area as 984
Local calls
Dial 10 digitsArea code needed, even next door
Exchanges in use
781 of 792held by 31 carriers
Projected to run out
3Q 2048NANPA forecast 2026.2

Complaints about 919 numbers

Reports where the number on the consumer's caller ID (or, for the FCC, the number the caller asked them to call back) starts with 919. These are counts of what people reported; the agencies do not verify them.

FTC reports, Aug 14, 2026 to Nov 11, 2026

1,711

FCC complaints since November 2023

614

Different 919 numbers reported

2,192

FCC complaints naming a 919 number, by month

November 2023 to October 2026. Source: FCC Consumer Complaints Data.

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MonthComplaints
November 202322
December 202312
January 202420
February 202413
March 20247
April 202412
May 202413
June 202417
July 202415
August 202419
September 202418
October 202433
November 202428
December 202423
January 202520
February 202511
March 202515
April 202511
May 202511
June 202516
July 202521
August 20259
September 202520
October 20250
November 202510
December 202510
January 202613
February 202617
March 20269
April 202615
May 202616
June 202619
July 202617
August 202622
September 202618
October 202636

What people said 919 calls were about

Subjects picked in FTC reports, August 14, 2026 to November 11, 2026. 1,133 of 1,711 reports were robocalls.

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SubjectReports
Other647
Calls pretending to be government, businesses, or family and friends383
Medical and prescriptions205
Reducing your debt (credit cards, mortgage, student loans)88
Home improvement and cleaning87
Dropped call or no message62

Most reported 919 numbers

Numbers with at least five reports from three or more places in the last twelve months. Many of them are likely spoofed.

Places served by 919

NANPA lists 39 rate centers for 919. A rate center is the town or district a block of numbers is tied to for billing; sorted here by how many exchanges each holds.
  • Raleigh286
  • Durham155
  • Chapel Hill47
  • Cary42
  • Goldsboro37
  • Sanford20
  • Apex15
  • Wake Forest13
  • Oxford12
  • Cary-Research Triangle Park11
  • Clayton10
  • Fuquay Varina9
  • Pittsboro9
  • Smithfield9
  • Knightdale8
  • Zebulon8
  • Hillsborough7
  • Louisburg7
  • Benson6
  • Creedmoor6
  • Selma6
  • Siler City6
  • Kenly5
  • Wendell5
Show all 39 rate centers

Franklinton, Mount Olive, Olivia, Angier, Four Oaks, Fremont, Grantham, Mebane, Princeton, Xxxxxxxxxx, Bonlee, Broadway, Goldston, Raleigh Durham Airport, Virgilina.

Phone companies holding 919 exchanges

Each exchange (the three digits after the area code) is assigned to one carrier. 62% of these exchanges are pooled: their numbers are handed out in blocks of 1,000 to other carriers, so the holder below is not always the company serving a given number.

Exchanges held, top 8 of 31 carriers

NANPA central office code assignments, file of November 11, 2026.

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Carrier (legal name)Exchanges
Bellsouth Telecomm Inc dba Southern Bell Tel & Tel166
Cellco Partnership dba Verizon Wireless - NC96
Frontier Communications of the Carolinas Inc. - NC85
Suncom dba T-Mobile USA81
Paetec Itel, LLC71
Brightspeed of Eastern North Carolina, LLC40
Mcimetro Access Transmission Services LLC - NC39
New Cingular Wireless PCS, LLC - GA39

When today's 919 exchanges were assigned

Exchanges still assigned, by year of assignment. Exchanges returned since are not counted.

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YearExchanges
200123
200216
20032
200413
200513
20064
200713
200815
20099
201012
201128
201210
20139
20142
20151
20221
20232
20241

Check a 919 number

A check shows the carrier and rate center of the number's exchange and every FTC and FCC report about that exact number. Why the number on screen can be fake.

Other area codes in North Carolina

NANPA area code database and central office code file of November 11, 2026; FCC complaints November 1, 2023 to November 11, 2026; FTC reports August 14, 2026 to November 11, 2026. How the data is used.

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