Get a local business phone number in Taft, CA

Area codes in Taft

With 6,988 residents in the Census 2024 estimate, Taft sits in Kern County, California. All 11 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 661. Taft is in the Pacific time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 661 are dialed as seven digits and toll calls as seven digits.

Phone carriers in Taft

7 carriers hold the 11 exchanges assigned to Taft's rate center. Frontier California INC. has the most, with 4. 11 of them are pooled codes, which the holder shares with other carriers in blocks of 1,000 numbers. A business number in Taft can come from any of these blocks; once it is yours, porting lets it move between providers.

Exchanges (NPA-NXX) assigned in Taft

Each prefix below is a block of up to 10,000 numbers that NANPA assigned to Taft's rate center (TAFT). The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2002. 1 of the 11 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Taft's exchanges were assigned

Assignment dates show when each block of Taft numbers was added to the local supply.

Rate centers and local calling in Taft

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

Keeping an existing Taft number costs nothing on Callata, because porting is free; a new number depends on what carriers have open in 661 when you pick it.

Who does business near Taft

Taft is part of the Bakersfield-Delano, CA metro area, home to 923,000 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 14,352 business establishments in the Bakersfield, CA metro area in 2023, employing 219,016 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (2,007), health care and social assistance (1,896), and accommodation and food services (1,590).

Setting up a Taft 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.

If you already have a number in Taft, porting it to Callata is free. Texting from a local number requires a one-time carrier registration (10DLC, $49), and the numbers available in any area code depend on carrier inventory when you choose them.

Optional AI agents (receptionist, sales, support or scheduler) can answer calls after hours or when nobody picks up, take messages, text, email and transfer to your team. They are billed from prepaid AI minutes at $0.25 per minute, identify themselves as AI, and may only place outbound calls to people who consented, between 8am and 9pm.

Per-seat phone plans multiply by headcount. For the rounded average establishment size in the Bakersfield, CA metro area, 15 users on RingCentral RingEX Core come to $450.00 a month and on Ooma Office Pro $374.25, at month-to-month list prices checked September 28, 2026. On Callata the same 15 people cost $299.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.