Get a local business phone number in Centreville, AL

Centreville area codes

With 2,721 residents in the Census 2024 estimate, Centreville sits in Bibb County, Alabama. NANPA lists 9 exchanges for its rate center across 2 area codes; 205 has the most (7, 78%). 205 is part of an overlay with 659, so a new local number in Centreville may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Centreville is in the Central time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 205 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Who holds Centreville phone exchanges

7 carriers hold the 9 exchanges assigned to Centreville's rate center. Bellsouth Telecomm INC d/b/a South Central Bell Tel has the most, with 2. 9 of them are pooled codes, which the holder shares with other carriers in blocks of 1,000 numbers. A business number in Centreville can come from any of these blocks; once it is yours, porting lets it move between providers.

Centreville phone prefixes

These are the central office codes NANPA records for Centreville. A caller seeing one of them recognizes a local number. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2003. 2 of the 9 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Centreville's exchanges were assigned

The table groups Centreville's exchanges by the decade NANPA recorded them as assigned.

What makes a number local to Centreville

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

Keeping an existing Centreville number costs nothing on Callata, because porting is free; a new number depends on what carriers have open in 205 when you pick it.

The local business market

Centreville is part of the Birmingham, AL metro area, home to 1.2 million people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 27,200 business establishments in the Birmingham, AL metro area in 2023, employing 480,717 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (4,055), health care and social assistance (2,977), and professional, scientific, and technical services (2,971).

A Centreville 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.

Porting a number you already use in Centreville is free, and business texting is available once the carrier registration (10DLC) is approved; the registration carries a one-time $49 fee. Which specific numbers are open in a given area code depends on carrier inventory at the time you sign up.

AI agents are optional: an AI receptionist or scheduler can pick up when the team is busy or closed, take a message, send a text or email, or transfer the call. They draw on prepaid AI minutes ($0.25/minute), disclose that they are AI, and outbound AI calls require prior consent and are limited to 8am–9pm.

An 18-person team is the benchmark here, the rounded average establishment size in the Birmingham, AL metro area. Billed per seat at month-to-month list prices (checked September 28, 2026), RingCentral RingEX Core costs $540.00 a month and Ooma Office Pro $449.10. Callata comes to $359.00 a month for 18 users ($99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user), below both.