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Area code 229
Area code 229 is centred on Albany, Georgia. We hold 5,043 allocated blocks for it across 86 rate centres, split 56% mobile, 29% landline and 14% VoIP.
The towns inside area code 229
Area code 229 is not a city code. It covers 86 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 229 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.
Georgia is split across 10 area codes — 470, 678, 912, 706, 229, 404 and others. By allocated blocks 229 is the 5th largest of them, holding 10% of the Georgia total.
Where 229 numbers are concentrated
NANPA truncates rate-centre names to ten characters and drops the spaces, which is why Thomasvl is 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 229 |
|---|---|---|
| Albany | 655 | 13% |
| Valdosta | 511 | 10% |
| Thomasvl | 439 | 9% |
| Bainbridge | 330 | 7% |
| Fitzgerald | 299 | 6% |
| Cuthbert | 264 | 5% |
| Moultrie | 166 | 3% |
| Tifton | 147 | 3% |
| Cordele | 146 | 3% |
| Americus | 139 | 3% |
| Georgetown | 101 | 2% |
| Sylvester | 69 | 1% |
| Ashburn | 64 | 1% |
| Camilla | 61 | 1% |
| Cairo | 54 | 1% |
| Adel | 52 | 1% |
| Quitman | 51 | 1% |
| Meigs | 48 | 1% |
| Buenavista | 46 | 1% |
| Colquitt | 41 | 1% |
| Lakeland | 39 | 1% |
| Alapaha | 37 | 1% |
| Dawson | 37 | 1% |
| Nashville | 37 | 1% |
62 further rate centres in 229 hold fewer blocks than these.
Carriers holding the most 229 blocks
AT&T Wireless1,677 blocks
Onvoy1,050 blocks
Verizon Wireless405 blocks
Bellsouth Telecomm Inc Dba Southern Bell Tel & Tel240 blocks
T-Mobile USA, Inc.203 blocks
Powertel Atlanta Licenses, Inc.175 blocks
The largest holder, AT&T Wireless, has 33% of the code.
These are original allocations. A number keeps its digits and its block when its subscriber moves network, so a ported 229 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 229 number, or run a whole list through the free cleaner — neither uploads anything.
Common questions
Where is area code 229?
Area code 229 is centred on Albany, Georgia and spans 86 rate centres, so it covers a region rather than a town.
Is a 229 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 229 the split runs 56% mobile, 29% landline and 14% VoIP, so mobile is the most likely single answer.
Which carriers hold 229 numbers?
The largest holders are AT&T Wireless, Onvoy, Verizon Wireless. That is the carrier the block was allocated to, which is not necessarily the network a given number sits on today.
How many 229 numbers are there?
The code holds 5,043 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 229 covers on the order of 5,043,000 possible numbers — most of which have never been issued to anyone.