Get a local business phone number in Downey, CA

What area code is Downey, CA?

With 109,368 residents in the Census 2024 estimate, Downey sits in Los Angeles County, California. All 77 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 562. Downey is in the Pacific time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 562 are dialed as 1 plus ten digits and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Phone carriers in Downey

19 carriers hold the 77 exchanges assigned to Downey's rate center. T-mobile USA, INC. has the most, with 15. 64 of them are pooled codes, which the holder shares with other carriers in blocks of 1,000 numbers. A business number in Downey can come from any of these blocks; once it is yours, porting lets it move between providers.

Local prefixes for Downey

Each prefix below is a block of up to 10,000 numbers that NANPA assigned to Downey's rate center (DOWNEY). The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 16 of the 77 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Downey's exchanges were assigned

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

Rate centers and local calling in Downey

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

Keeping an existing Downey number costs nothing on Callata, because porting is free; a new number depends on what carriers have open in 562 when you pick it.

Businesses around Downey

Downey is part of the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro area, home to 12.9 million people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 411,949 business establishments in the Los Angeles, CA metro area in 2023, employing 5,568,514 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are professional, scientific, and technical services (61,848), health care and social assistance (53,869), and retail trade (38,838).

Setting up a Downey business line

Callata is a business phone system priced at $99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user. Callata Office includes up to 3 local business numbers, unlimited inbound calling, 1,500 pooled outbound US and Canada minutes per user each month, a browser softphone that can also ring your cell, voicemail with transcription, call recording with AI summaries, business-hours routing and E911 on every number.

Porting a number you already use in Downey 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 Los Angeles, CA metro 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. Callata comes to $279.00 a month for 14 users ($99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user), below both.