Get a local business phone number in Alexandria, MN

What area code is Alexandria, MN?

Alexandria, in Douglas County, Minnesota, had a Census-estimated population of 14,914 in July 2024. All 18 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 320. Alexandria is in the Central time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 320 are dialed as seven digits and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Alexandria exchanges by carrier

8 carriers hold the 18 exchanges assigned to Alexandria's rate center. Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless - MN has the most, with 5. 8 of them are pooled codes, which the holder shares with other carriers in blocks of 1,000 numbers. A business number in Alexandria can come from any of these blocks; once it is yours, porting lets it move between providers.

Alexandria phone prefixes

Each prefix below is a block of up to 10,000 numbers that NANPA assigned to Alexandria's rate center (ALEXANDRIA). The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 1 of the 18 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Alexandria's exchanges were assigned

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

What makes a number local to Alexandria

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

Keeping an existing Alexandria number costs nothing on Callata, because porting is free; a new number depends on what carriers have open in 320 when you pick it.

Businesses around Alexandria

Alexandria is part of the Alexandria, MN micropolitan area, home to 39,933 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 1,394 business establishments in the Alexandria, MN micropolitan area in 2023, employing 18,208 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (210), construction (192), and other services (except public administration) (162).

Business phone service in Alexandria

For $99 a month, Callata puts a team of up to 5 on one plan ($20 for each person after that): up to 3 local numbers, unlimited inbound calls, a pooled allowance of 1,500 outbound US and Canada minutes per user, browser and cell calling, voicemail transcription with urgency triage, recorded calls with AI summaries and business-hours routing, with E911 on every number.

If you already have a number in Alexandria, 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.

A 13-person team is the benchmark here, the rounded average establishment size in the Alexandria, MN micropolitan area. Billed per seat at month-to-month list prices (checked September 28, 2026), RingCentral RingEX Core costs $390.00 a month and Ooma Office Pro $324.35. On Callata the same 13 people cost $259.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.