Get a local business phone number in Killen, AL

What area code is Killen, AL?

Killen town is a Census place in Lauderdale County, Alabama, with an estimated 1,040 residents in 2024. NANPA lists 6 exchanges for its rate center across 2 area codes; 256 has the most (5, 83%). 256 is part of an overlay with 938, so a new local number in Killen may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Killen 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.

Phone carriers in Killen

4 carriers hold the 6 exchanges assigned to Killen's rate center. Bellsouth Telecomm INC d/b/a South Central Bell Tel has the most, with 2. 5 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 Killen

These are the central office codes NANPA records for Killen. A caller seeing one of them recognizes a local number. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2004. 1 of the 6 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Killen's exchanges were assigned

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

Rate centers and local calling in Killen

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

Keeping an existing Killen 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 Killen

Killen is part of the Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL metro area, home to 156,000 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 3,321 business establishments in the Florence, AL metro area in 2023, employing 50,430 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (616), health care and social assistance (403), and other services (except public administration) (393).

Setting up a Killen business line

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 Killen 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.

The comparison below uses 15 users, the rounded average establishment size in the Florence, 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. Callata comes to $299.00 a month for 15 users ($99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user), below both.