Get a local business phone number in Muscatine, IA

Area codes in Muscatine

Muscatine city is a Census place in Muscatine County, Iowa, with an estimated 23,298 residents in 2024. All 19 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 563. Muscatine is in the Central time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 563 are dialed as seven digits and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Who holds Muscatine phone exchanges

11 carriers hold the 19 exchanges assigned to Muscatine's rate center. Qwest Corporation has the most, with 5. 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 Muscatine

Each prefix below is a block of up to 10,000 numbers that NANPA assigned to Muscatine's rate center (MUSCATINE). The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 1 of the 19 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Muscatine's exchanges were assigned

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

How local numbers work in Muscatine

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

New local numbers are drawn from carrier inventory, so the exact 563 numbers available change over time; porting an existing number is free.

The local business market

Muscatine is part of the Muscatine, IA micropolitan area, home to 42,132 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 949 business establishments in the Muscatine, IA micropolitan area in 2023, employing 19,519 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (129), health care and social assistance (104), and accommodation and food services (102).

Setting up a Muscatine business line

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