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Dothan area codes

Dothan, in Houston County, Alabama, had a Census-estimated population of 71,650 in July 2024. All 70 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 334. 334 is part of an overlay with 483, so a new local number in Dothan may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Dothan is in the Central time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 334 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Phone carriers in Dothan

15 carriers hold the 70 exchanges assigned to Dothan's rate center. New Cingular Wireless PCS, LLC - Ga has the most, with 25. 44 of them are pooled codes, which the holder shares with other carriers in blocks of 1,000 numbers. The table counts codes by the operating company NANPA assigned them to, not by who serves each number today.

Exchanges (NPA-NXX) assigned in Dothan

Each prefix below is a block of up to 10,000 numbers that NANPA assigned to Dothan's rate center (DOTHAN). The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 27 of the 70 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Dothan's exchanges were assigned

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

What makes a number local to Dothan

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

New local numbers are drawn from carrier inventory, so the exact 334 numbers available change over time; porting an existing number is free.

Businesses around Dothan

Dothan is part of the Dothan, AL metro area, home to 155,000 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 3,594 business establishments in the Dothan, AL metro area in 2023, employing 52,879 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (674), health care and social assistance (414), and other services (except public administration) (390).

Business phone service in Dothan

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 Dothan, 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 15 users, the rounded average establishment size in the Dothan, AL metro area. At list prices checked September 28, 2026, that is $374.25 a month on Ooma Office Pro and $450.00 on RingCentral RingEX Core. On Callata the same 15 people cost $299.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.