Tarrant County · Texas
Fort Worth, TX area codes and time zone
Quick answer
Fort Worth is served by area codes 214, 469, 682, 817, 972, keeps CST time (GMT-6), and sits in county FIPS 48439.
- Area codes
- 214 · 469 · 682 · 817 · 972Within 25 miles of the city centre
- Time zone
- CSTAmerica/Chicago
- UTC offset
- GMT-6CDT in summer (UTCGMT-5)
- County FIPS
- 48439Tarrant County
Dialling from and to Fort Worth
What this means when you pick up the phone.
Because more than one code covers this area, ten-digit dialling applies for local calls: area code plus number, every time. From abroad, dial +1 then the ten digits.
How Fort Worth came to have several area codes
Why one city can carry several codes.
Area codes are assigned to geography, then exhausted as demand grows. Fort Worth — population about 978k — is covered by codes 214, 469, 682, 817, 972, drawn from within 25 miles of the city centre. Because these 5 codes serve the same footprint, they are overlays: the number pool ran low and a new code was layered on top rather than splitting the city apart. All ten digits are required for every local call.
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