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Delaware City area codes

Delaware City city is a Census place in New Castle County, Delaware, with an estimated 1,933 residents in 2024. All 23 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 302. Delaware City is in the Eastern time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 302 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Delaware City exchanges by carrier

11 carriers hold the 23 exchanges assigned to Delaware City's rate center. Mcimetro Access Transmission Services LLC has the most, with 6. 17 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.

Exchanges (NPA-NXX) assigned in Delaware City

These are the central office codes NANPA records for Delaware City. A caller seeing one of them recognizes a local number. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2004. 4 of the 23 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Delaware City's exchanges were assigned

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

Rate centers and local calling in Delaware City

Phone numbers are tied to a rate center, the local calling area used to decide whether a call is local or toll. Delaware City's numbers are rated to the DELAWARECY rate center in NANPA's records. A business number from one of the prefixes above shows up on customers' phones as a Delaware City number.

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Businesses around Delaware City

Delaware City is part of the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro area, home to 6.3 million people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 153,791 business establishments in the Philadelphia, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro area in 2023, employing 2,873,871 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are health care and social assistance (19,759), professional, scientific, and technical services (19,559), and retail trade (18,474).

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