Get a local business phone number in Elkton, MD

What area code is Elkton, MD?

Elkton, in Cecil County, Maryland, had a Census-estimated population of 15,977 in July 2024. NANPA lists 28 exchanges for its rate center across 3 area codes; 443 has the most (14, 50%). 443 is part of an overlay with 410 and 667, so a new local number in Elkton may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Elkton is in the Eastern time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 443 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Elkton exchanges by carrier

13 carriers hold the 28 exchanges assigned to Elkton's rate center. Verizon Maryland, INC. has the most, with 5. 23 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.

Elkton phone prefixes

Each prefix below is a block of up to 10,000 numbers that NANPA assigned to Elkton's rate center (ELKTON). The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 3 of the 28 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Elkton's exchanges were assigned

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

What makes a number local to Elkton

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

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Businesses around Elkton

Elkton is part of the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro area, home to 6.3 million people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 153,791 business establishments in the Philadelphia, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro area in 2023, employing 2,873,871 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are health care and social assistance (19,759), professional, scientific, and technical services (19,559), and retail trade (18,474).

Business phone service in Elkton

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