# Area code 949

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Telephone area code for southern Orange County, California

Numbering plan areas in California (blue) and border states. Area code 949 is shown in red.

**Area code 949** is a telephone [area code](/source/NPA_code) in the [North American Numbering Plan](/source/North_American_Numbering_Plan) (NANP) for the [U.S. state](/source/U.S._state) of [California](/source/California) in southern [Orange County](/source/Orange_County%2C_California). The area code was activated for service on April 18, 1998, to a numbering plan area that resulted from a split of [area code 714](/source/Area_code_714) with a boundary change to exclude the southern cities of Orange County, where the existing central office codes were retained in the new area code.[1][2]

## Service area

- [Aliso Viejo](/source/Aliso_Viejo)

- [Costa Mesa](/source/Costa_Mesa) (primarily the Westside)

- [Coto de Caza](/source/Coto_de_Caza)

- [Dana Point](/source/Dana_Point)

- [Irvine](/source/Irvine%2C_California) (small portion in the [657/714 area code](/source/Area_codes_714_and_657))

- [Ladera Ranch](/source/Ladera_Ranch)

- [Laguna Beach](/source/Laguna_Beach)

- [Laguna Hills](/source/Laguna_Hills)

- [Laguna Niguel](/source/Laguna_Niguel)

- [Laguna Woods](/source/Laguna_Woods)

- [Lake Forest](/source/Lake_Forest%2C_California)

- [Las Flores](/source/Las_Flores%2C_California)

- [Mission Viejo](/source/Mission_Viejo)

- [Newport Beach](/source/Newport_Beach)

- [Rancho Mission Viejo](/source/Rancho_Mission_Viejo%2C_California)

- [Rancho Santa Margarita](/source/Rancho_Santa_Margarita%2C_California)

- [San Clemente](/source/San_Clemente)

- [San Juan Capistrano](/source/San_Juan_Capistrano)

- [Santa Ana](/source/Santa_Ana%2C_California) (mostly in the [657/714 area code](/source/Area_codes_714_and_657))

- [Trabuco Canyon](/source/Trabuco_Canyon)

- [Tustin](/source/Tustin) (mostly in the [657/714 area code](/source/Area_codes_714_and_657))

The city of [Costa Mesa](/source/Costa_Mesa) is partitioned between area codes 949 and 714, being split at Wilson Street and along Newport Boulevard. A small section of Irvine also uses 714, from the north side of Culver Drive at Interstate 5 to Jamboree Road in the Marketplace, in the neighborhood of Northpark Irvine.

## See also

- [List of California area codes](/source/List_of_California_area_codes)

- [List of North American Numbering Plan area codes](/source/List_of_North_American_Numbering_Plan_area_codes)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["NANP-Split of 415 (California) Numbering Plan Area (NPA)"](https://www.nanpa.com/sites/default/files/planning_letters/PL-071.pdf) (PDF). NANPA/Bellcore. November 22, 1996. Retrieved July 23, 2025.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Leutza, Jack (July 25, 2001). ["Report on the 949 Area Code"](https://docs.cpuc.ca.gov/published/REPORT/8637.htm#P179_13749). *California Public Utilities Commission*. Retrieved July 23, 2025.

## External links

- ["Area Code Maps"](https://www.nanpa.com/resources/area-code-maps). [North American Numbering Plan Administrator](/source/North_American_Numbering_Plan_Administrator).

California area codes: 209/350, 213/323, 310/424, 408/669, 415/628, 510/341, 530, 559, 562, 619/858, 626, 650, 661, 707/369, 714/657, 760/442, 805/820, 818/747, 831, 909/840, 916/279, 925, 949, 951 North: 714/657 West: 310/424 (offshore islands), 808, Pacific Ocean 949 East: 951 South: 760/442 Hawaii area codes: 808

[33°36′N 117°42′W / 33.6°N 117.7°W / 33.6; -117.7](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Area_code_949&params=33.6_N_117.7_W_region:US-CA_type:adm2nd_dim:50km)

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