Get a local business phone number in Atlanta, GA

What area code is Atlanta, GA?

Atlanta city is a Census place in Fulton County, Georgia, with an estimated 520,070 residents in 2024. NANPA lists 1,129 exchanges for its rate center across 5 area codes; 404 has the most (781, 69%). 404 is part of an overlay with 470, 678, and 943, so a new local number in Atlanta may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Atlanta is in the Eastern time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 404 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Atlanta exchanges by carrier

53 carriers hold the 1,129 exchanges assigned to Atlanta's rate center. Bellsouth Telecomm INC d/b/a Southern Bell Tel & Tel has the most, with 296. 696 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.

Atlanta phone prefixes

A prefix (NXX) is the three digits after the area code. Numbers starting with these prefixes are rated as local to Atlanta. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 126 of the 1,129 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Atlanta's exchanges were assigned

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

Rate centers and local calling in Atlanta

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

New local numbers are drawn from carrier inventory, so the exact 404 numbers available change over time; porting an existing number is free.

Businesses around Atlanta

Atlanta is part of the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA metro area, home to 6.4 million people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 163,103 business establishments in the Atlanta, GA metro area in 2023, employing 2,692,513 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are professional, scientific, and technical services (25,159), retail trade (18,625), and health care and social assistance (18,435).

Business phone service in Atlanta

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If you already have a number in Atlanta, 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.

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