Get a local business phone number in Richmond, IN

What area code is Richmond, IN?

With 35,561 residents in the Census 2024 estimate, Richmond sits in Wayne County, Indiana. All 37 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 765. Richmond is in the Eastern time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 765 are dialed as seven digits and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Phone carriers in Richmond

21 carriers hold the 37 exchanges assigned to Richmond's rate center. Frontier North, INC.. - In has the most, with 7. 28 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.

Local prefixes for Richmond

A prefix (NXX) is the three digits after the area code. Numbers starting with these prefixes are rated as local to Richmond. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 9 of the 37 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Richmond's exchanges were assigned

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

How local numbers work in Richmond

NANPA ties every exchange to a rate center. For Richmond that is RICHMOND, so a number from one of these exchanges reads as local to people in and around Richmond.

New local numbers are drawn from carrier inventory, so the exact 765 numbers available change over time; porting an existing number is free.

Who does business near Richmond

Richmond is part of the Richmond, IN micropolitan area, home to 66,410 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 1,453 business establishments in the Richmond, IN micropolitan area in 2023, employing 25,774 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (253), health care and social assistance (215), and other services (except public administration) (161).

Business phone service in Richmond

Callata Office costs $99 per month for up to 5 people, and each additional user is $20 a month. That covers up to 3 local numbers, calling from a browser or your cell, transcribed voicemail, recorded calls with AI summaries, after-hours routing and E911 on each number.

Porting a number you already use in Richmond is free, and business texting is available once the carrier registration (10DLC) is approved; the registration carries a one-time $49 fee. Which specific numbers are open in a given area code depends on carrier inventory at the time you sign up.

AI agents are optional: an AI receptionist or scheduler can pick up when the team is busy or closed, take a message, send a text or email, or transfer the call. They draw on prepaid AI minutes ($0.25/minute), disclose that they are AI, and outbound AI calls require prior consent and are limited to 8am–9pm.

Per-seat phone plans multiply by headcount. For the rounded average establishment size in the Richmond, IN micropolitan area, 18 users on RingCentral RingEX Core come to $540.00 a month and on Ooma Office Pro $449.10, at month-to-month list prices checked September 28, 2026. Callata comes to $359.00 a month for 18 users ($99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user), below both.