Get a local business phone number in Biloxi, MS

Area codes in Biloxi

With 48,144 residents in the Census 2024 estimate, Biloxi sits in Harrison County, Mississippi. All 80 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 228. Biloxi is in the Central time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 228 are dialed as seven digits and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Biloxi exchanges by carrier

29 carriers hold the 80 exchanges assigned to Biloxi's rate center. New Cingular Wireless PCS, LLC - Ga has the most, with 15. 61 of them are pooled codes, which the holder shares with other carriers in blocks of 1,000 numbers. A business number in Biloxi can come from any of these blocks; once it is yours, porting lets it move between providers.

Exchanges (NPA-NXX) assigned in Biloxi

Each prefix below is a block of up to 10,000 numbers that NANPA assigned to Biloxi's rate center (BILOXI). The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 22 of the 80 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Biloxi's exchanges were assigned

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

What makes a number local to Biloxi

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

If your business already has a Biloxi number, porting it to Callata is free and keeps it on your cards, listings and vehicles.

The local business market

Biloxi is part of the Gulfport-Biloxi, MS metro area, home to 427,000 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 7,882 business establishments in the Gulfport, MS metro area in 2023, employing 131,721 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (1,471), accommodation and food services (1,034), and health care and social assistance (962).

A Biloxi number on Callata

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 Biloxi 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 17 users, the rounded average establishment size in the Gulfport, MS metro area. At list prices checked September 28, 2026, that is $424.15 a month on Ooma Office Pro and $510.00 on RingCentral RingEX Core. Callata comes to $339.00 a month for 17 users ($99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user), below both.