Get a local business phone number in Los Angeles, CA

Area codes in Los Angeles

With 3,878,704 residents in the Census 2024 estimate, Los Angeles sits in Los Angeles County, California. NANPA lists 1,467 exchanges for its rate centers across 4 area codes; 213 has the most (759, 52%). 213 is part of an overlay with 323 and 738, so a new local number in Los Angeles may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Los Angeles is in the Pacific time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 213 are dialed as 1 plus ten digits and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Los Angeles exchanges by carrier

51 carriers hold the 1,467 exchanges assigned to Los Angeles's rate centers. Pacific Bell has the most, with 382. 1,016 of them are pooled codes, which the holder shares with other carriers in blocks of 1,000 numbers. A business number in Los Angeles can come from any of these blocks; once it is yours, porting lets it move between providers.

Exchanges (NPA-NXX) assigned in Los Angeles

Each prefix below is a block of up to 10,000 numbers that NANPA assigned to Los Angeles's rate centers (LSAN DA 01, LSAN DA 02, LSAN DA 03, and LSAN DA 04 and others). The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 263 of the 1,467 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Los Angeles's exchanges were assigned

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

What makes a number local to Los Angeles

NANPA ties every exchange to a rate center. For Los Angeles that is LSAN DA 01, LSAN DA 02, LSAN DA 03, LSAN DA 04, LSAN DA 05, LSAN DA 06, LSAN DA 07, LSAN DA 08, LSAN DA 09, LSAN DA 10, LSAN DA 11, LSAN DA 12, LSAN DA 13, and LSAN DA 14, so a number from one of these exchanges reads as local to people in and around Los Angeles.

New local numbers are drawn from carrier inventory, so the exact 213 numbers available change over time; porting an existing number is free.

The local business market

Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles number on Callata

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 Los Angeles 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.