Get a local business phone number in Lancaster, KY

What area code is Lancaster, KY?

With 4,083 residents in the Census 2024 estimate, Lancaster sits in Garrard County, Kentucky. All 6 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 859. Lancaster is in the Eastern time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 859 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Lancaster exchanges by carrier

4 carriers hold the 6 exchanges assigned to Lancaster's rate center. Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless - KY has the most, with 2. 4 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.

Lancaster phone prefixes

These are the central office codes NANPA records for Lancaster. A caller seeing one of them recognizes a local number. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2012. None were assigned in 2020 or later.

Rate centers and local calling in Lancaster

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

New local numbers are drawn from carrier inventory, so the exact 859 numbers available change over time; porting an existing number is free.

Who does business near Lancaster

Lancaster 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).

A Lancaster number on Callata

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If you already have a number in Lancaster, 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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