Get a local business phone number in Shreveport, LA

Shreveport area codes

Shreveport city is a Census place in Caddo Parish, Louisiana, with an estimated 176,578 residents in 2024. All 172 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 Shreveport may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Shreveport 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.

Shreveport exchanges by carrier

36 carriers hold the 172 exchanges assigned to Shreveport's rate center. Bellsouth Telecomm INC d/b/a South Central Bell Tel has the most, with 56. 111 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.

Shreveport phone prefixes

These are the central office codes NANPA records for Shreveport. A caller seeing one of them recognizes a local number. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 13 of the 172 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Shreveport's exchanges were assigned

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

What makes a number local to Shreveport

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

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

Businesses around Shreveport

Shreveport is part of the Shreveport-Bossier City, LA metro area, home to 383,000 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 9,193 business establishments in the Shreveport, LA metro area in 2023, employing 138,991 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (1,310), health care and social assistance (1,245), and professional, scientific, and technical services (893).

A Shreveport 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.

If you already have a number in Shreveport, 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.

The comparison below uses 15 users, the rounded average establishment size in the Shreveport, LA metro area. At list prices checked September 28, 2026, that is $374.25 a month on Ooma Office Pro and $450.00 on RingCentral RingEX Core. On Callata the same 15 people cost $299.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.