Get a local business phone number in Benton, KS

Benton area codes

With 2,348 residents in the Census 2024 estimate, Benton sits in Butler County, Kansas. All 4 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 316. Benton is in the Central time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 316 are dialed as seven digits and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Benton exchanges by carrier

4 carriers hold the 4 exchanges assigned to Benton's rate center. Onvoy, LLC - KS has the most, with 1. 4 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.

Benton phone prefixes

These are the central office codes NANPA records for Benton. A caller seeing one of them recognizes a local number. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2021. 1 of the 4 were assigned in 2020 or later.

What makes a number local to Benton

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

Keeping an existing Benton number costs nothing on Callata, because porting is free; a new number depends on what carriers have open in 316 when you pick it.

Businesses around Benton

Benton is part of the Wichita, KS metro area, home to 661,000 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 15,367 business establishments in the Wichita, KS metro area in 2023, employing 267,681 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are health care and social assistance (2,151), retail trade (1,939), and other services (except public administration) (1,572).

A Benton number on Callata

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 Benton, 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.

Per-seat phone plans multiply by headcount. For the rounded average establishment size in the Wichita, KS metro area, 17 users on RingCentral RingEX Core come to $510.00 a month and on Ooma Office Pro $424.15, at month-to-month list prices checked September 28, 2026. On Callata the same 17 people cost $339.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.