Get a local business phone number in Ardmore, AL

What area code is Ardmore, AL?

Ardmore town is a Census place in Limestone County, Alabama, with an estimated 1,452 residents in 2024. All 5 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 256. 256 is part of an overlay with 938, so a new local number in Ardmore may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Ardmore is in the Central time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 256 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Ardmore exchanges by carrier

2 carriers hold the 5 exchanges assigned to Ardmore's rate center. MCC Telephony LLC has the most, with 3. 3 of them are pooled codes, which the holder shares with other carriers in blocks of 1,000 numbers. A business number in Ardmore can come from any of these blocks; once it is yours, porting lets it move between providers.

Ardmore phone prefixes

Each prefix below is a block of up to 10,000 numbers that NANPA assigned to Ardmore's rate center (ARDMORE). The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2006. None were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Ardmore's exchanges were assigned

Assignment dates show when each block of Ardmore numbers was added to the local supply.

What makes a number local to Ardmore

Phone numbers are tied to a rate center, the local calling area used to decide whether a call is local or toll. Ardmore's numbers are rated to the ARDMORE rate center in NANPA's records. A business number from one of the prefixes above shows up on customers' phones as a Ardmore number.

If your business already has a Ardmore number, porting it to Callata is free and keeps it on your cards, listings and vehicles.

Businesses around Ardmore

Ardmore is part of the Huntsville, AL metro area, home to 542,000 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 10,924 business establishments in the Huntsville, AL metro area in 2023, employing 219,367 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are professional, scientific, and technical services (1,625), retail trade (1,612), and health care and social assistance (1,347).

Business phone service in Ardmore

Callata is a business phone system priced at $99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user. Callata Office includes up to 3 local business numbers, unlimited inbound calling, 1,500 pooled outbound US and Canada minutes per user each month, a browser softphone that can also ring your cell, voicemail with transcription, call recording with AI summaries, business-hours routing and E911 on every number.

If you already have a number in Ardmore, porting it to Callata is free. Texting from a local number requires a one-time carrier registration (10DLC, $49), and the numbers available in any area code depend on carrier inventory when you choose them.

Optional AI agents (receptionist, sales, support or scheduler) can answer calls after hours or when nobody picks up, take messages, text, email and transfer to your team. They are billed from prepaid AI minutes at $0.25 per minute, identify themselves as AI, and may only place outbound calls to people who consented, between 8am and 9pm.

The comparison below uses 20 users, the rounded average establishment size in the Huntsville, AL metro area. At list prices checked September 28, 2026, that is $499.00 a month on Ooma Office Pro and $600.00 on RingCentral RingEX Core. On Callata the same 20 people cost $399.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.