Get a local business phone number in Lakewood, CA

Lakewood area codes

Lakewood, in Los Angeles County, California, had a Census-estimated population of 78,494 in July 2024. NANPA lists 44 exchanges for its rate center across 2 area codes; 562 has the most (42, 95%). Lakewood 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.

Who holds Lakewood phone exchanges

20 carriers hold the 44 exchanges assigned to Lakewood's rate center. Frontier California INC. has the most, with 10. 29 of them are pooled codes, which the holder shares with other carriers in blocks of 1,000 numbers. The table counts codes by the operating company NANPA assigned them to, not by who serves each number today.

Lakewood phone prefixes

Each prefix below is a block of up to 10,000 numbers that NANPA assigned to Lakewood's rate center (LAKEWOOD). The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 4 of the 44 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Lakewood's exchanges were assigned

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

What makes a number local to Lakewood

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

New local numbers are drawn from carrier inventory, so the exact 562 numbers available change over time; porting an existing number is free.

The local business market

Lakewood 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).

A Lakewood number on Callata

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Porting a number you already use in Lakewood 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 14-person team is the benchmark here, the rounded average establishment size in the Los Angeles, CA metro area. Billed per seat at month-to-month list prices (checked September 28, 2026), RingCentral RingEX Core costs $420.00 a month and Ooma Office Pro $349.30. Callata comes to $279.00 a month for 14 users ($99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user), below both.