Get a local business phone number in Beebe, AR

What area code is Beebe, AR?

Beebe city is a Census place in White County, Arkansas, with an estimated 9,092 residents in 2024. All 9 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 501. Beebe is in the Central time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 501 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Beebe exchanges by carrier

7 carriers hold the 9 exchanges assigned to Beebe's rate center. Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless - Ar has the most, with 2. 8 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.

Beebe phone prefixes

Each prefix below is a block of up to 10,000 numbers that NANPA assigned to Beebe's rate center (BEEBE). The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2003. 4 of the 9 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Beebe's exchanges were assigned

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

What makes a number local to Beebe

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

New local numbers are drawn from carrier inventory, so the exact 501 numbers available change over time; porting an existing number is free.

Businesses around Beebe

Beebe is part of the Searcy, AR micropolitan area, home to 79,091 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 1,637 business establishments in the Searcy, AR micropolitan area in 2023, employing 23,543 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (304), health care and social assistance (215), and other services (except public administration) (178).

Business phone service in Beebe

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If you already have a number in Beebe, 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.

Per-seat phone plans multiply by headcount. For the rounded average establishment size in the Searcy, AR micropolitan area, 14 users on RingCentral RingEX Core come to $420.00 a month and on Ooma Office Pro $349.30, at month-to-month list prices checked September 28, 2026. On Callata the same 14 people cost $279.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.