Get a local business phone number in Selma, CA

Selma area codes

Selma city is a Census place in Fresno County, California, with an estimated 24,505 residents in 2024. All 12 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 559. 559 is part of an overlay with 357, so a new local number in Selma may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Selma is in the Pacific time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 559 are dialed as 1 plus ten digits and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Who holds Selma phone exchanges

8 carriers hold the 12 exchanges assigned to Selma's rate center. New Cingular Wireless PCS, LLC has the most, with 3. 10 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.

Selma phone prefixes

These are the central office codes NANPA records for Selma. A caller seeing one of them recognizes a local number. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 4 of the 12 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Selma's exchanges were assigned

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

What makes a number local to Selma

What a caller sees as "local" is the area code plus prefix. In Selma, those come from the SELMA rate center, as recorded by NANPA.

If your business already has a Selma number, porting it to Callata is free and keeps it on your cards, listings and vehicles.

The local business market

Selma is part of the Fresno, CA metro area, home to 1.2 million people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 21,510 business establishments in the Fresno, CA metro area in 2023, employing 332,203 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are health care and social assistance (3,003), retail trade (2,752), and accommodation and food services (2,122).

A Selma number on Callata

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Porting a number you already use in Selma 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.

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