Get a local business phone number in Thousand Oaks, CA
Thousand Oaks's area codes, prefixes and carriers from NANPA records, and how to put a Thousand Oaks number in front of your customers.
- Area code
- 805 / 820
- Exchanges
- 66NANPA-assigned
- Carriers
- 19
- Population
- 124,229Census 2024 est.
Thousand Oaks area codes
Thousand Oaks city is a Census place in Ventura County, California, with an estimated 124,229 residents in 2024. NANPA lists 66 exchanges for its rate center across 2 area codes; 805 has the most (64, 97%). 805 is part of an overlay with 820, so a new local number in Thousand Oaks may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Thousand Oaks is in the Pacific time zone.
According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 805 are dialed as 1 plus ten digits and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.
Phone carriers in Thousand Oaks
19 carriers hold the 66 exchanges assigned to Thousand Oaks's rate center. Frontier California INC. has the most, with 17. 31 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.
| Carrier (NANPA operating company) | Exchanges | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Frontier California INC. | 17 | 26% |
| Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless - CA | 14 | 21% |
| T-mobile USA, INC. | 9 | 14% |
| New Cingular Wireless PCS, LLC | 5 | 7.6% |
| Level 3 Communications, LLC - CA | 3 | 4.5% |
| Peerless Network of California, LLC - CA | 2 | 3.0% |
| U.s. Telepacific Corp. d/b/a TPX Communications | 2 | 3.0% |
| Metropcs Networks, LLC | 2 | 3.0% |
| Onvoy, LLC - CA | 2 | 3.0% |
| Paetec Itel, LLC | 1 | 1.5% |
| Comcast Phone of California, LLC | 1 | 1.5% |
| American Messaging Services, LLC | 1 | 1.5% |
Carrier names are the operating company (OCN) names on NANPA's utilized central office code file dated 10/01/2026. A carrier holding a code may port numbers to other carriers.
Exchanges (NPA-NXX) assigned in Thousand Oaks
Each prefix below is a block of up to 10,000 numbers that NANPA assigned to Thousand Oaks's rate center (THOUSAOAKS). The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. None were assigned in 2020 or later.
| Area code | Prefixes (NXX) |
|---|---|
| 805 | 208, 217, 230, 231, 267, 277, 279, 300, 309, 313, 338, 341, 353, 358, 367, 368, 370, 371, 372, 373, 374, 379, 381, 390, 405, 409, 413, 418, 432, 435, 442, 446, 449, 494, 495, 496, 497, 506, 551, 557, 558, 601, 630, 657, 660, 719, 728, 731, 732, 750, 777, 778, 795, 796, 807, 852, 857, 870, 905, 906, 907, 908, 917, 953 |
| 820 | 200, 333 |
Source: NANPA utilized central office code file.
When Thousand Oaks's exchanges were assigned
Assignment dates show when each block of Thousand Oaks numbers was added to the local supply.
| Decade assigned | Exchanges | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 6 | 75% |
| 2010s | 2 | 25% |
Assignment dates as recorded in NANPA's utilized code file; codes without a recorded date are excluded.
What makes a number local to Thousand Oaks
NANPA ties every exchange to a rate center. For Thousand Oaks that is THOUSAOAKS, so a number from one of these exchanges reads as local to people in and around Thousand Oaks.
Keeping an existing Thousand Oaks number costs nothing on Callata, because porting is free; a new number depends on what carriers have open in 805 when you pick it.
Businesses around Thousand Oaks
Thousand Oaks is part of the Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA metro area, home to 835,000 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 22,992 business establishments in the Oxnard, CA metro area in 2023, employing 273,697 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are health care and social assistance (3,270), professional, scientific, and technical services (3,100), and retail trade (2,552).
| Industry | Establishments | Employees | Employees per establishment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physician practices | 903 | 4,027 | 4.5 |
| Limited-service restaurants | 710 | 13,883 | 19.6 |
| Full-service restaurants | 584 | 13,076 | 22.4 |
| Dental offices | 486 | 2,964 | 6.1 |
| Offices of real estate agents and brokers | 454 | 1,070 | 2.4 |
| Law offices | 450 | 1,632 | 3.6 |
| Residential remodelers | 425 | 1,830 | 4.3 |
| Insurance agencies and brokerages | 413 | 1,813 | 4.4 |
Selected small-business industries (six-digit NAICS) covered by these guides. Source: Census County Business Patterns 2023.
Business phone service in Thousand Oaks
For $99 a month, Callata puts a team of up to 5 on one plan ($20 for each person after that): up to 3 local numbers, unlimited inbound calls, a pooled allowance of 1,500 outbound US and Canada minutes per user, browser and cell calling, voicemail transcription with urgency triage, recorded calls with AI summaries and business-hours routing, with E911 on every number.
If you already have a number in Thousand Oaks, 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.
A 12-person team is the benchmark here, the rounded average establishment size in the Oxnard, CA metro area. Billed per seat at month-to-month list prices (checked September 28, 2026), RingCentral RingEX Core costs $360.00 a month and Ooma Office Pro $299.40. On Callata the same 12 people cost $239.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.
| Provider (plan) | Pricing basis | Per month | Per year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Callata (Callata Office) | $99 incl. 5 users, $20 per extra user | $239.00 | $2,868.00 |
| Quo (Starter) | $19.00 per user | $228.00 | $2,736.00 |
| Nextiva (Core) | $23.00 per user | $276.00 | $3,312.00 |
| Ooma (Office Pro) | $24.95 per user | $299.40 | $3,592.80 |
| Dialpad (Standard) | $27.00 per user | $324.00 | $3,888.00 |
| RingCentral (RingEX Core) | $30.00 per user | $360.00 | $4,320.00 |
Competitor prices are each vendor's published month-to-month list price per user for its lowest plan that includes business calling and texting, checked September 28, 2026: Quo Starter $19, Nextiva Core $23, Ooma Office Pro $24.95 (Essentials excludes texting; one-time $29.95 activation not included), Dialpad Standard $27, RingCentral RingEX Core $30 ($20 billed annually). Prices exclude taxes and fees and may change; annual contracts lower some competitors' prices.
Frequently asked questions
What area code is Thousand Oaks, CA?
Thousand Oaks has exchanges in 805 and 820; 805 has the most.
How many phone companies have exchanges in Thousand Oaks?
19, holding 66 exchanges between them, according to NANPA's 10/01/2026 file.
Can I keep my existing Thousand Oaks business number?
Yes. Porting an existing number to Callata is free. Texting from it starts after carrier registration (10DLC), a one-time $49 fee.
How much is a business phone line in Thousand Oaks?
Callata is $99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user, with up to 3 local numbers; 12 users come to $239.00 a month. For comparison, 12 users on RingCentral RingEX Core list at $360.00 a month (checked September 28, 2026).