Get a local business phone number in Starke, FL

Area codes in Starke

Starke city is a Census place in Bradford County, Florida, with an estimated 5,966 residents in 2024. All 14 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 904. 904 is part of an overlay with 324, so a new local number in Starke may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Starke is in the Eastern time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 904 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Who holds Starke phone exchanges

7 carriers hold the 14 exchanges assigned to Starke's rate center. Metropcs Networks, LLC has the most, with 3. 13 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.

Local prefixes for Starke

These are the central office codes NANPA records for Starke. 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 14 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Starke's exchanges were assigned

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

How local numbers work in Starke

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

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

The local business market

Starke is outside any Census metro or micropolitan area, so the figures below are statewide. County Business Patterns counted 645,575 business establishments in Florida in 2023, employing 9,988,508 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are professional, scientific, and technical services (94,623), retail trade (75,988), and health care and social assistance (73,984).

Setting up a Starke business line

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 Starke, 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.

The comparison below uses 15 users, the rounded average establishment size in Florida. At list prices checked September 28, 2026, that is $374.25 a month on Ooma Office Pro and $450.00 on RingCentral RingEX Core. On Callata the same 15 people cost $299.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.