Get a local business phone number in Leslie, MI

What area code is Leslie, MI?

Leslie township is a Census town in Ingham County, Michigan, with an estimated 2,324 residents in 2024. All 6 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 517. Leslie is in the Eastern time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 517 are dialed as seven digits and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Phone carriers in Leslie

5 carriers hold the 6 exchanges assigned to Leslie's rate center. Onvoy, Llcv - Mi has the most, with 2. 5 of them are pooled codes, which the holder shares with other carriers in blocks of 1,000 numbers. A business number in Leslie can come from any of these blocks; once it is yours, porting lets it move between providers.

Local prefixes for Leslie

A prefix (NXX) is the three digits after the area code. Numbers starting with these prefixes are rated as local to Leslie. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 2 of the 6 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Leslie's exchanges were assigned

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

How local numbers work in Leslie

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

Keeping an existing Leslie number costs nothing on Callata, because porting is free; a new number depends on what carriers have open in 517 when you pick it.

Who does business near Leslie

Leslie is part of the Lansing-East Lansing, MI metro area, home to 480,000 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 9,748 business establishments in the Lansing, MI metro area in 2023, employing 172,407 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (1,360), other services (except public administration) (1,207), and health care and social assistance (1,202).

Business phone service in Leslie

Callata Office costs $99 per month for up to 5 people, and each additional user is $20 a month. That covers up to 3 local numbers, calling from a browser or your cell, transcribed voicemail, recorded calls with AI summaries, after-hours routing and E911 on each number.

Porting a number you already use in Leslie 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.

The comparison below uses 18 users, the rounded average establishment size in the Lansing, MI metro area. At list prices checked September 28, 2026, that is $449.10 a month on Ooma Office Pro and $540.00 on RingCentral RingEX Core. Callata comes to $359.00 a month for 18 users ($99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user), below both.