Goodbye 313, 679 up next?
The 313 area code is projected to be exhausted during the third quarter of 2025, which means most phone numbers within the area code are in use, with few to no new numbers available to assign.
That will require applying a new area code that will cover the same geographic territory of the 313 area code without splitting the current area code boundaries or requiring a change of numbers for existing phone users by moving existing 313 phones to a new area code.
Rather, current 313 numbers will remain in place while new phone customers in the same territory may be assigned numbers with the 679 area code.
The 313 area code covers Detroit, its enclaves Hamtramck and Highland Park, and the suburbs of Allen Park, Dearborn and Dearborn Heights, Ecorse, the Grosse Pointes, Inkster, Lincoln Park, Redford Township, River Rouge and Taylor.
A meeting will be held in March by Michigan Public Safety
Commission to see if the change will go through.
