Get a local business phone number in Oakdale, LA

What area code is Oakdale, LA?

Oakdale city is a Census place in Allen Parish, Louisiana, with an estimated 6,490 residents in 2024. All 9 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 Oakdale may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Oakdale 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 Oakdale

7 carriers hold the 9 exchanges assigned to Oakdale's rate center. Bellsouth Telecomm INC d/b/a South Central Bell Tel has the most, with 2. 9 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 Oakdale

A prefix (NXX) is the three digits after the area code. Numbers starting with these prefixes are rated as local to Oakdale. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2002. 2 of the 9 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Oakdale's exchanges were assigned

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

Rate centers and local calling in Oakdale

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

Keeping an existing Oakdale 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 Oakdale

Oakdale 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).

Business phone service in Oakdale

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 Oakdale 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.

A 16-person team is the benchmark here, the rounded average establishment size in Louisiana. Billed per seat at month-to-month list prices (checked September 28, 2026), RingCentral RingEX Core costs $480.00 a month and Ooma Office Pro $399.20. Callata comes to $319.00 a month for 16 users ($99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user), below both.