Get a local business phone number in Jena, LA

Area codes in Jena

Jena, in LaSalle Parish, Louisiana, had a Census-estimated population of 4,133 in July 2024. All 5 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 Jena may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Jena 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 Jena

4 carriers hold the 5 exchanges assigned to Jena's rate center. New Cingular Wireless PCS, LLC - Ga has the most, with 2. 3 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.

Exchanges (NPA-NXX) assigned in Jena

Each prefix below is a block of up to 10,000 numbers that NANPA assigned to Jena's rate center (JENA). The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 1 of the 5 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Jena's exchanges were assigned

Assignment dates show when each block of Jena numbers was added to the local supply.

Rate centers and local calling in Jena

Phone numbers are tied to a rate center, the local calling area used to decide whether a call is local or toll. Jena's numbers are rated to the JENA rate center in NANPA's records. A business number from one of the prefixes above shows up on customers' phones as a Jena number.

Keeping an existing Jena number costs nothing on Callata, because porting is free; a new number depends on what carriers have open in 318 when you pick it.

Who does business near Jena

Jena 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).

Setting up a Jena business line

Callata Office costs $99 per month for up to 5 people, and each additional user is $20 a month. That covers up to 3 local numbers, calling from a browser or your cell, transcribed voicemail, recorded calls with AI summaries, after-hours routing and E911 on each number.

If you already have a number in Jena, 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.

Optional AI agents (receptionist, sales, support or scheduler) can answer calls after hours or when nobody picks up, take messages, text, email and transfer to your team. They are billed from prepaid AI minutes at $0.25 per minute, identify themselves as AI, and may only place outbound calls to people who consented, between 8am and 9pm.

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. On Callata the same 16 people cost $319.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.