Get a local business phone number in Lonoke, AR

What area code is Lonoke, AR?

With 4,287 residents in the Census 2024 estimate, Lonoke sits in Lonoke County, Arkansas. All 9 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 501. Lonoke 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.

Who holds Lonoke phone exchanges

6 carriers hold the 9 exchanges assigned to Lonoke's rate center. T-mobile USA, INC. has the most, with 4. 9 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.

Lonoke phone prefixes

Each prefix below is a block of up to 10,000 numbers that NANPA assigned to Lonoke's rate center (LONOKE). The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2002. 2 of the 9 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Lonoke's exchanges were assigned

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

Rate centers and local calling in Lonoke

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

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

Businesses around Lonoke

Lonoke 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).

A Lonoke number on Callata

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 Lonoke 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.

Per-seat phone plans multiply by headcount. For the rounded average establishment size in the Little Rock, AR metro area, 16 users on RingCentral RingEX Core come to $480.00 a month and on Ooma Office Pro $399.20, at month-to-month list prices checked September 28, 2026. Callata comes to $319.00 a month for 16 users ($99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user), below both.