330 Area Code: Akron, Canton & Youngstown

Area code 330 covers northeastern Ohio. Its three main cities are Akron, Canton and Youngstown, along with Cuyahoga Falls, Kent, Warren, Massillon and about forty other towns across Summit, Stark, Mahoning, Portage and Trumbull counties.

330 shares the region with 234, an overlay added in October 2000. Both codes cover the same ground, which is why every local call in northeast Ohio needs all ten digits.

The region is on Eastern Time. From outside the United States, dial +1 330 and then the seven-digit number.

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The 330 area code is a telephone area code serving a large stretch of northeast Ohio, centered on the Akron, Canton and Youngstown metropolitan areas but reaching well beyond the state's Cleveland core, which keeps the 216 code.

It was created in 1996, when the older 216 code — which had covered most of northeast Ohio since the numbering plan began — was split to relieve a shortage of numbers driven mainly by the boom in cellular and pager lines. Cleveland and its inner suburbs stayed on 216, while the industrial belt to the south and east was reassigned to the new 330 code.

Dialing Format and Time Zone

• Dialing format: (330) 555-0142
• International: +1 330-555-0142
• Time zone: Eastern Time (ET), UTC−5, the same clock as Cleveland, Pittsburgh and the whole East Coast
• Ten-digit dialing is mandatory because the 234 overlay shares the region — always dial the area code, even for a local call

330 is in Ohio, covering the northeastern corner of the state — Akron, Canton, Youngstown and the towns around them. For the full coverage map and county list, see the 330 area code directory page.

234 is not a different place. It covers exactly the same territory as 330 — all of northeastern Ohio — and was added when 330 numbers began running short. A 330 number and a 234 number can be on the same street; which one a line carries depends only on when it was issued.

Before 1996, all of northeastern Ohio was 216. The split gave Cleveland 216 and everything south and east of it 330. Four years later, rather than splitting again, regulators layered 234 over the top.

On March 9, 1996, the 330 area code was carved out of the older 216 code in what regulators call a split — and it was a landmark event, because 330 was the first entirely new area code created in Ohio since the North American Numbering Plan began in 1947. Until then, 216 had covered most of northeast Ohio.

As phone lines, pagers and early mobile numbers multiplied through the 1990s, that single code ran short, and rather than renumber everyone, planners divided the territory: Cleveland kept 216, and the Akron, Canton and Youngstown belt moved to the new 330 code.

• 216 — the original northeast Ohio code, in service since 1947, now covering Cleveland and its inner suburbs only
• 330 — the 1996 split covering the Akron, Canton and Youngstown industrial belt
• 234 — an all-services overlay added over the exact same 330 territory in 2000 as the region filled up
• Ten-digit dialing has been mandatory across the region since the overlay took effect — the area code is required on every call

That last point sets the region apart from a code with no overlay. Because 234 now shares the same ground as 330, two neighbors on the same street can carry different area codes, and every local call must include all ten digits.

The overlay added millions of fresh numbers without forcing anyone to change an existing one, so 330 remains the recognizable badge of northeast Ohio's industrial belt while 234 quietly fills in behind it — the same solution Cleveland, Columbus and other busy regions have used to keep pace with demand.

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Akron's area code is 330, or its overlay 234.

Akron is the largest city in the 330 area and the fifth-largest in Ohio. The code covers the whole of Summit County — Akron itself, plus Cuyahoga Falls, Stow, Barberton, Tallmadge, Green, Hudson and Munroe Falls.

A number in Akron will be 330 or 234 depending on when it was issued. Neither code indicates a different part of the city, and both are dialled the same way.

Akron sits about forty miles south of Cleveland, which uses 216. If a number is in Cleveland proper it is 216, not 330 — and the inner Cleveland suburbs use 440 or its overlay 436.

Canton uses 330 or 234, the same pair as Akron. It sits in Stark County, immediately south of Summit.

The code covers Canton, Massillon, Alliance, North Canton, Louisville and the surrounding townships. Canton is best known for the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and every number in the city and its suburbs falls inside the same two codes.

Youngstown uses 330 or 234. The Mahoning Valley sits at the eastern end of the area, on the Pennsylvania border.

The code covers Youngstown, Warren, Boardman, Austintown, Niles and Struthers, across Mahoning and Trumbull counties. Across the state line, numbers switch to Pennsylvania's 724 — so a call a few miles east of Youngstown is a different area code entirely.

Northeast Ohio ZIP codes all begin 44. Because 234 overlays 330 across the whole region, any ZIP below can hold either code.

Ohio uses fourteen area codes, most of them in overlay pairs covering the same ground.

Ohio. 330 covers the northeastern part of the state — Akron, Canton and Youngstown. It has never been a Florida area code.

Worth noting separately: 030 is not a US area code at all. It is the city code for Berlin, in Germany, so a number written +49 30 is German rather than American.

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A 330 number suits anyone who wants to feel rooted in the region: manufacturers and medical practices in the Akron-Canton corridor, research and technology firms near the University of Akron, logistics and supply operations in the Mahoning Valley, and remote teams targeting northeast Ohio from elsewhere.

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The same 'local northeast Ohio' quality that makes 330 useful to businesses also makes it a convenient disguise for fraud. Caller-ID spoofing lets someone anywhere in the world display a 330 prefix, so a resident sees what looks like a nearby business, bank or government office calling. The prefix itself proves nothing — genuine and spoofed calls look identical on screen, and scammers know a familiar local code is more likely to be answered.

• Fake bank or payment alerts — voicemails or texts about a 'suspicious transaction,' pushing you to call back or tap a link
• Prize and refund lures — claims you have won something or are owed a refund, requesting card details to 'process' it
• Utility and delivery threats — messages that your power will be cut or a package held unless you pay a small fee immediately

The reliable defense is to hang up and call back through a number found independently — on a bill, an official site, or a saved contact. No genuine bank, agency or utility demands gift cards or wire transfers over the phone, and a local-looking 330 caller ID is never proof of who is really on the line.

Federal law restricts the automated and misleading calls these schemes rely on, but such calls still slip through, so treat any pressure to act immediately as a warning sign in itself. For more, see spot and report scams.

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