Get a local business phone number in Foley, AL

Area codes in Foley

With 28,043 residents in the Census 2024 estimate, Foley sits in Baldwin County, Alabama. All 73 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 251. Foley is in the Central time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 251 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Phone carriers in Foley

10 carriers hold the 73 exchanges assigned to Foley's rate center. Brightspeed of Southern Alabama has the most, with 29. 48 of them are pooled codes, which the holder shares with other carriers in blocks of 1,000 numbers. Holding a code means NANPA assigned that block of numbers to the carrier for this rate center; individual numbers may since have been ported elsewhere.

Local prefixes for Foley

Each prefix below is a block of up to 10,000 numbers that NANPA assigned to Foley's rate center (FOLEY). The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 17 of the 73 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Foley's exchanges were assigned

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

What makes a number local to Foley

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

New local numbers are drawn from carrier inventory, so the exact 251 numbers available change over time; porting an existing number is free.

The local business market

Foley is part of the Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL metro area, home to 262,000 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 6,409 business establishments in the Daphne, AL metro area in 2023, employing 72,022 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (1,062), construction (776), and accommodation and food services (669).

Business phone service in Foley

Callata Office costs $99 per month for up to 5 people, and each additional user is $20 a month. That covers up to 3 local numbers, calling from a browser or your cell, transcribed voicemail, recorded calls with AI summaries, after-hours routing and E911 on each number.

Porting a number you already use in Foley 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 11-person team is the benchmark here, the rounded average establishment size in the Daphne, AL metro area. Billed per seat at month-to-month list prices (checked September 28, 2026), RingCentral RingEX Core costs $330.00 a month and Ooma Office Pro $274.45. Callata comes to $219.00 a month for 11 users ($99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user), below both.