253 Area Code
Area code 253 is a telephone dialing code in Washington for the suburbs south of Seattle and of the southern Puget Sound area, centered at Tacoma and extending to include the areas around Gig Harbor, Auburn, and Roy. It currently serves the western half of Pierce County, Washington.
The area code went into service on April 27, 1997 as part of a three-way split of area code 206.
| Anderson Island, WA | Auburn, WA | Bonney Lake, WA |
| Buckley, WA | Burley, WA | Camp Murray, WA |
| Dupont, WA | Eatonville, WA | Federal Way, WA |
| Fox Island, WA | Gig Harbor, WA | Graham, WA |
| Kent, WA | Lakebay, WA | Lakewood, WA |
| Longbranch, WA | McChord Afb, WA | Milton, WA |
| Olalla, WA | Pacific, WA | Puyallup, WA |
| Redondo, WA | Roy, WA | Spanaway, WA |
| Steilacoom, WA | Sumner, WA | Tacoma, WA |
| University Place, WA |