Get a local business phone number in Opelousas, LA

Opelousas area codes

Opelousas city is a Census place in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, with an estimated 15,176 residents in 2024. All 21 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 337. Opelousas 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.

Opelousas exchanges by carrier

9 carriers hold the 21 exchanges assigned to Opelousas's rate center. New Cingular Wireless PCS, LLC - Ga has the most, with 5. 15 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 Opelousas

Each prefix below is a block of up to 10,000 numbers that NANPA assigned to Opelousas's rate center (OPELOUSAS). The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 1 of the 21 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Opelousas's exchanges were assigned

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

Rate centers and local calling in Opelousas

NANPA ties every exchange to a rate center. For Opelousas that is OPELOUSAS, so a number from one of these exchanges reads as local to people in and around Opelousas.

Keeping an existing Opelousas number costs nothing on Callata, because porting is free; a new number depends on what carriers have open in 337 when you pick it.

Businesses around Opelousas

Opelousas is part of the Opelousas, LA micropolitan area, home to 80,869 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 1,559 business establishments in the Opelousas, LA micropolitan area in 2023, employing 21,089 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (279), health care and social assistance (266), and professional, scientific, and technical services (140).

A Opelousas 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 Opelousas 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.

Per-seat phone plans multiply by headcount. For the rounded average establishment size in the Opelousas, LA micropolitan area, 14 users on RingCentral RingEX Core come to $420.00 a month and on Ooma Office Pro $349.30, at month-to-month list prices checked September 28, 2026. Callata comes to $279.00 a month for 14 users ($99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user), below both.