Get a local business phone number in Homer, LA

What area code is Homer, LA?

Homer town is a Census place in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, with an estimated 2,563 residents in 2024. All 6 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 Homer may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Homer 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.

Who holds Homer phone exchanges

6 carriers hold the 6 exchanges assigned to Homer's rate center. New Cingular Wireless PCS, LLC - Ga has the most, with 1. 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.

Homer phone prefixes

Each prefix below is a block of up to 10,000 numbers that NANPA assigned to Homer's rate center (HOMER). The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 1 of the 6 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Homer's exchanges were assigned

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

Rate centers and local calling in Homer

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

New local numbers are drawn from carrier inventory, so the exact 318 numbers available change over time; porting an existing number is free.

Businesses around Homer

Homer is outside any Census metro or micropolitan area, so the figures below are statewide. County Business Patterns counted 108,561 business establishments in Louisiana in 2023, employing 1,697,330 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (15,868), health care and social assistance (13,331), and professional, scientific, and technical services (12,493).

A Homer 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.

Porting a number you already use in Homer 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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Per-seat phone plans multiply by headcount. For the rounded average establishment size in Louisiana, 16 users on RingCentral RingEX Core come to $480.00 a month and on Ooma Office Pro $399.20, at month-to-month list prices checked September 28, 2026. Callata comes to $319.00 a month for 16 users ($99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user), below both.