Get a local business phone number in Boaz, AL

Boaz area codes

Boaz city is a Census place in Marshall County, Alabama, with an estimated 10,473 residents in 2024. NANPA lists 9 exchanges for its rate center across 2 area codes; 256 has the most (7, 78%). 256 is part of an overlay with 938, so a new local number in Boaz may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Boaz 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.

Who holds Boaz phone exchanges

6 carriers hold the 9 exchanges assigned to Boaz's rate center. New Cingular Wireless PCS, LLC - Ga has the most, with 2. 8 of them are pooled codes, which the holder shares with other carriers in blocks of 1,000 numbers. A business number in Boaz can come from any of these blocks; once it is yours, porting lets it move between providers.

Local prefixes for Boaz

Each prefix below is a block of up to 10,000 numbers that NANPA assigned to Boaz's rate center (BOAZ). The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 1 of the 9 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Boaz's exchanges were assigned

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

What makes a number local to Boaz

What a caller sees as "local" is the area code plus prefix. In Boaz, those come from the BOAZ rate center, as recorded by NANPA.

Keeping an existing Boaz number costs nothing on Callata, because porting is free; a new number depends on what carriers have open in 256 when you pick it.

Businesses around Boaz

Boaz is part of the Albertville, AL micropolitan area, home to 102,000 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 2,010 business establishments in the Albertville, AL micropolitan area in 2023, employing 36,646 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (437), accommodation and food services (207), and health care and social assistance (204).

A Boaz number on Callata

For $99 a month, Callata puts a team of up to 5 on one plan ($20 for each person after that): up to 3 local numbers, unlimited inbound calls, a pooled allowance of 1,500 outbound US and Canada minutes per user, browser and cell calling, voicemail transcription with urgency triage, recorded calls with AI summaries and business-hours routing, with E911 on every number.

If you already have a number in Boaz, 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 18 users, the rounded average establishment size in the Albertville, AL micropolitan area. At list prices checked September 28, 2026, that is $449.10 a month on Ooma Office Pro and $540.00 on RingCentral RingEX Core. On Callata the same 18 people cost $359.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.