Area Code 213 — Los Angeles, California

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About Area Code 213

Region Code
213
City
Los Angeles
State
California
Population
430,000
Largest City
Los Angeles
Neighboring Codes
  • 310/424/818 (Los Angeles, California)
  • 562 (Long Beach, California)
  • 626 (Pasadena, California)
  • 747 (Burbank, California)
Time Zone
Pacific Time

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History & Cultural Notes

Area code 213 was one of the original 1947 North American Numbering Plan assignments, initially covering a broad swath of Southern California. Decades of number growth led to successive reductions, notably the 1984 split that created 818 and the 1991 split that created 310; a 1998 split confined service largely to central Los Angeles. To address exhaustion, regulators converted the 213/323 boundary to an all-services overlay in 2017, making ten-digit dialing standard while maintaining existing numbers.

  • Civic and legal institutions centered around City Hall and courthouses
  • Finance, real estate, and corporate services in the Downtown core
  • Apparel manufacturing and wholesale trade in the Fashion District and markets
  • Arts, entertainment, and sports venues in the Historic Core and South Park
  • Higher education and healthcare anchored by USC and major hospitals

Beyond its administrative reach, the code is shorthand for the historic core of Los Angeles—Downtown, Little Tokyo, Chinatown, Pico-Union, and parts of Koreatown—reflecting layered waves of immigration, entrepreneurship, and civic life. It appears in local music, lowrider and street cultures, and neighborhood branding as an emblem of central-city identity, even as the overlay with 323 blurs legacy boundaries.