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Staples area codes

Staples city is a Census place in Todd County, Minnesota, with an estimated 3,075 residents in 2024. All 7 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 218. Staples is in the Central time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 218 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Who holds Staples phone exchanges

5 carriers hold the 7 exchanges assigned to Staples's rate center. Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless - MN has the most, with 2. 5 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.

Staples phone prefixes

A prefix (NXX) is the three digits after the area code. Numbers starting with these prefixes are rated as local to Staples. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2002. 1 of the 7 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Staples's exchanges were assigned

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

Rate centers and local calling in Staples

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

Keeping an existing Staples number costs nothing on Callata, because porting is free; a new number depends on what carriers have open in 218 when you pick it.

Businesses around Staples

Staples is outside any Census metro or micropolitan area, so the figures below are statewide. County Business Patterns counted 154,455 business establishments in Minnesota in 2023, employing 2,803,410 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are health care and social assistance (19,985), retail trade (17,727), and construction (17,568).

Setting up a Staples business line

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.

Porting a number you already use in Staples 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.

An 18-person team is the benchmark here, the rounded average establishment size in Minnesota. Billed per seat at month-to-month list prices (checked September 28, 2026), RingCentral RingEX Core costs $540.00 a month and Ooma Office Pro $449.10. Callata comes to $359.00 a month for 18 users ($99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user), below both.