Get a local business phone number in Alexandria, LA

What area code is Alexandria, LA?

Alexandria city is a Census place in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, with an estimated 43,133 residents in 2024. All 60 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 318. 318 is part of an overlay with 457, so a new local number in Alexandria may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Alexandria is in the Central time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 318 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Phone carriers in Alexandria

13 carriers hold the 60 exchanges assigned to Alexandria's rate center. Bellsouth Telecomm INC d/b/a South Central Bell Tel has the most, with 20. 42 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 Alexandria

A prefix (NXX) is the three digits after the area code. Numbers starting with these prefixes are rated as local to Alexandria. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 2 of the 60 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Alexandria's exchanges were assigned

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

Rate centers and local calling in Alexandria

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

If your business already has a Alexandria number, porting it to Callata is free and keeps it on your cards, listings and vehicles.

Businesses around Alexandria

Alexandria is part of the Alexandria, LA metro area, home to 148,000 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 3,370 business establishments in the Alexandria, LA metro area in 2023, employing 48,465 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are health care and social assistance (612), retail trade (563), and other services (except public administration) (352).

Setting up a Alexandria business line

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Porting a number you already use in Alexandria 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.

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