Get a local business phone number in Benton, KY

What area code is Benton, KY?

Benton city is a Census place in Marshall County, Kentucky, with an estimated 4,726 residents in 2024. All 12 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 270. 270 is part of an overlay with 364, so a new local number in Benton may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Benton is in the Eastern and Central time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 270 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Phone carriers in Benton

7 carriers hold the 12 exchanges assigned to Benton's rate center. Onvoy, LLC - KY has the most, with 4. 9 of them are pooled codes, which the holder shares with other carriers in blocks of 1,000 numbers. A business number in Benton can come from any of these blocks; once it is yours, porting lets it move between providers.

Local prefixes for Benton

Each prefix below is a block of up to 10,000 numbers that NANPA assigned to Benton's rate center (BENTON). The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. None were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Benton's exchanges were assigned

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

Rate centers and local calling in Benton

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

New local numbers are drawn from carrier inventory, so the exact 270 numbers available change over time; porting an existing number is free.

Businesses around Benton

Benton is outside any Census metro or micropolitan area, so the figures below are statewide. County Business Patterns counted 94,402 business establishments in Kentucky in 2023, employing 1,708,602 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (15,020), health care and social assistance (12,636), and other services (except public administration) (9,543).

Setting up a Benton 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.

Porting a number you already use in Benton 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 Kentucky, 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.