Get a local business phone number in DeRidder, LA

What area code is DeRidder, LA?

With 9,508 residents in the Census 2024 estimate, DeRidder sits in Beauregard Parish, Louisiana. All 13 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 337. DeRidder is in the Central time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 337 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Who holds DeRidder phone exchanges

7 carriers hold the 13 exchanges assigned to DeRidder's rate center. Bellsouth Telecomm INC d/b/a South Central Bell Tel has the most, with 3. 11 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.

DeRidder phone prefixes

A prefix (NXX) is the three digits after the area code. Numbers starting with these prefixes are rated as local to DeRidder. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2002. 1 of the 13 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When DeRidder's exchanges were assigned

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

Rate centers and local calling in DeRidder

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

New local numbers are drawn from carrier inventory, so the exact 337 numbers available change over time; porting an existing number is free.

Businesses around DeRidder

DeRidder is part of the DeRidder, LA micropolitan area, home to 36,695 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 643 business establishments in the DeRidder, LA micropolitan area in 2023, employing 7,013 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (118), health care and social assistance (75), and other services (except public administration) (72).

A DeRidder number on Callata

Callata is a business phone system priced at $99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user. Callata Office includes up to 3 local business numbers, unlimited inbound calling, 1,500 pooled outbound US and Canada minutes per user each month, a browser softphone that can also ring your cell, voicemail with transcription, call recording with AI summaries, business-hours routing and E911 on every number.

Porting a number you already use in DeRidder 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.

The comparison below uses 11 users, the rounded average establishment size in the DeRidder, LA micropolitan area. At list prices checked September 28, 2026, that is $274.45 a month on Ooma Office Pro and $330.00 on RingCentral RingEX Core. Callata comes to $219.00 a month for 11 users ($99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user), below both.