757 Area Code: Hampton Roads, Virginia

The 757 area code is Hampton Roads, Virginia — the coastal metro that includes Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Newport News, and Hampton — plus Virginia’s Eastern Shore. It has served the region since July 1, 1996, when it split from the 804 code, and since May 2022 it shares the territory with a new overlay: area code 948.

Few American area codes have an identity as strong as this one — “the 757” is shorthand for the region itself. Here is what the code covers, why 948 numbers are starting to appear beside it, and how to read an unexpected call from either.

The cities inside the 757 area code

The code spans both sides of the harbor and beyond:

• South Hampton Roads: Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Franklin
• The Virginia Peninsula: Newport News, Hampton, Williamsburg, Poquoson
• The Eastern Shore: Accomack and Northampton counties, across the Chesapeake Bay on the Delmarva Peninsula

Virginia Beach alone is the most populous city in Virginia, and the metro’s combined weight is why the region needed its own code in 1996 — and a second one 26 years later. All of it runs on Eastern Time.

Area code 948: the overlay

757’s number pool thinned, and Virginia’s State Corporation Commission answered with an overlay rather than another split: area code 948, in service since May 9, 2022, covering exactly the same territory. Mandatory ten-digit dialing arrived in April 2022 to prepare for it.

What that means in practice: existing 757 numbers never changed, new lines may be assigned 948 as 757 stock depletes, and a 948 number is every bit as local — same cities, same rate centers, same calling areas. If a business hands you a 948 number, nothing about it is unusual; it is simply newer.

Who is calling from a 757 number?

The region’s caller mix has a distinctive anchor: the military. Naval Station Norfolk is the largest naval station in the world — headquarters of US Fleet Forces Command, berthing roughly 75 ships — and the wider region layers shipbuilding at Newport News, port operations, and the defense contractors that follow all three. Add the usual civilian gravity — hospital systems, universities, insurers, city services — and you get the ordinary texture of 757 calls: appointment reminders, billing lines, HR callbacks, school notifications.

None of which authenticates any individual call. A 757 (or 948) display proves nothing about where a caller is actually standing: numbers move with their owners, VoIP dials from anywhere, and caller ID spoofing fabricates the display outright — “neighbor spoofing” deliberately mimics local codes because local calls get answered. The reliable routine: hang up and call back on a number you look up yourself. Our area code guide covers why the code on your screen stopped being location evidence.

Getting a 757 number for your business

For any business serving Hampton Roads — including the enormous market of military families who move in and out on orders — a local number signals presence the way an out-of-region number can’t. Carriers provision by rate center, so a 757 (or 948) number can ring any phone system anywhere.

SIPNEX provisions local DIDs across Virginia rate centers, delivers them over dialer-grade SIP trunking, and signs every outbound call at A-level STIR/SHAKEN attestation — so a legitimate local-presence line never reads like the spoofed calls it competes with.

Frequently asked questions

SIPNEX is an FCC-licensed carrier providing local DID numbers in Hampton Roads and every US market, toll-free numbers as a registered RespOrg, and high-volume SIP trunking — every call signed with our own STIR/SHAKEN certificate. Talk to an operator or see rates.