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Area code 218
Area code 218 is centred on Duluth, Minnesota. We hold 4,182 allocated blocks for it across 238 rate centres, split 30% mobile, 49% landline and 20% VoIP.
The towns inside area code 218
Area code 218 is not a city code. It covers 238 separate rate centres — billing areas, each its own local calling zone. The largest of them are named in the table below.
That matters twice over. A call between two 218 numbers is not necessarily a local call, because they can sit in different rate centres. And a code this wide narrows a subscriber to a region rather than a town.
Minnesota is split across 7 area codes — 507, 218, 612, 320, 651, 763 and others. By allocated blocks 218 is the second largest of them, holding 17% of the Minnesota total.
Where 218 numbers are concentrated
NANPA truncates rate-centre names to ten characters and drops the spaces, which is why Grand Rpds and Fergus Fls are shortened. Names are reproduced as recorded rather than expanded — the abbreviation is the key the block data is filed under.
| Rate centre | Blocks | Share of 218 |
|---|---|---|
| Duluth | 444 | 11% |
| Brainerd | 174 | 4% |
| Moorhead | 137 | 3% |
| Virginia | 125 | 3% |
| Hibbing | 113 | 3% |
| Bemidji | 111 | 3% |
| Grand Rpds | 86 | 2% |
| Fergus Fls | 82 | 2% |
| Wadena | 80 | 2% |
| Detroitlks | 77 | 2% |
| Coleraine | 64 | 2% |
| Egrndforks | 56 | 1% |
| Cloquet | 55 | 1% |
| Barnum | 51 | 1% |
| Crookston | 51 | 1% |
| Moose Lake | 51 | 1% |
| Parkrapids | 50 | 1% |
| Staples | 49 | 1% |
| Silver Bay | 47 | 1% |
| Carlton | 46 | 1% |
| Intetnlfls | 45 | 1% |
| Thifrivfls | 45 | 1% |
| Battlelake | 44 | 1% |
| Grandmrais | 41 | 1% |
214 further rate centres in 218 hold fewer blocks than these.
Carriers holding the most 218 blocks
Onvoy961 blocks
Verizon Wireless401 blocks
Qwest Corporation340 blocks
AT&T Wireless282 blocks
Bandwidth198 blocks
Citizens Telecom Co Mn-Frontier Citizens Com161 blocks
The largest holder, Onvoy, has 23% of the code.
These are original allocations. A number keeps its digits and its block when its subscriber moves network, so a ported 218 number still reports the carrier it started with. Closing that gap needs a live query against the routing database. How line type is derived.
Check a single 218 number, or run a whole list through the free cleaner — neither uploads anything.
Common questions
Where is area code 218?
Area code 218 is centred on Duluth, Minnesota and spans 238 rate centres, so it covers a region rather than a town.
Is a 218 number a mobile or a landline?
It can be either, and the digits do not say which. North American mobile and landline numbers share the same ranges, so the answer comes from the carrier holding the block. In 218 the split runs 30% mobile, 49% landline and 20% VoIP, so landline is the most likely single answer.
Which carriers hold 218 numbers?
The largest holders are Onvoy, Verizon Wireless, Qwest Corporation. That is the carrier the block was allocated to, which is not necessarily the network a given number sits on today.
How many 218 numbers are there?
The code holds 4,182 allocated blocks in our copy of the numbering plan. A block is 1,000 or 10,000 consecutive numbers depending on how deeply it has been pooled, so 218 covers on the order of 4,182,000 possible numbers — most of which have never been issued to anyone.