Get a local business phone number in Lake Providence, LA

Lake Providence area codes

Lake Providence, in East Carroll Parish, Louisiana, had a Census-estimated population of 3,231 in July 2024. All 4 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 Lake Providence may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Lake Providence 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.

Lake Providence exchanges by carrier

3 carriers hold the 4 exchanges assigned to Lake Providence's rate center. Bellsouth Telecomm INC d/b/a South Central Bell Tel has the most, with 2. 3 of them are pooled codes, which the holder shares with other carriers in blocks of 1,000 numbers. The table counts codes by the operating company NANPA assigned them to, not by who serves each number today.

Exchanges (NPA-NXX) assigned in Lake Providence

These are the central office codes NANPA records for Lake Providence. A caller seeing one of them recognizes a local number. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2002. None were assigned in 2020 or later.

Rate centers and local calling in Lake Providence

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

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Businesses around Lake Providence

Lake Providence 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).

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