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Benton area codes

Benton city is a Census place in Saline County, Arkansas, with an estimated 38,088 residents in 2024. All 28 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 501. Benton 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.

Benton exchanges by carrier

11 carriers hold the 28 exchanges assigned to Benton's rate center. Southwestern Bell has the most, with 9. 25 of them are pooled codes, which the holder shares with other carriers in blocks of 1,000 numbers. A business number in Benton can come from any of these blocks; once it is yours, porting lets it move between providers.

Exchanges (NPA-NXX) assigned in Benton

These are the central office codes NANPA records for Benton. A caller seeing one of them recognizes a local number. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 7 of the 28 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Benton's exchanges were assigned

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

What makes a number local to Benton

NANPA ties every exchange to a rate center. For Benton that is BENTON, so a number from one of these exchanges reads as local to people in and around Benton.

Keeping an existing Benton number costs nothing on Callata, because porting is free; a new number depends on what carriers have open in 501 when you pick it.

The local business market

Benton is part of the Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR metro area, home to 769,000 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 19,170 business establishments in the Little Rock, AR metro area in 2023, employing 315,713 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (2,658), health care and social assistance (2,564), and professional, scientific, and technical services (2,143).

Business phone service in Benton

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 Benton 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.

A 16-person team is the benchmark here, the rounded average establishment size in the Little Rock, AR metro area. Billed per seat at month-to-month list prices (checked September 28, 2026), RingCentral RingEX Core costs $480.00 a month and Ooma Office Pro $399.20. Callata comes to $319.00 a month for 16 users ($99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user), below both.