Get a local business phone number in Decatur, MS

Area codes in Decatur

With 1,886 residents in the Census 2024 estimate, Decatur sits in Newton County, Mississippi. NANPA lists 2 exchanges for its rate center across 2 area codes; 601 has the most (1, 50%). 601 is part of an overlay with 769, so a new local number in Decatur may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Decatur is in the Central time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 601 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Phone carriers in Decatur

2 carriers hold the 2 exchanges assigned to Decatur's rate center. Decatur Tel. CO., INC. has the most, with 1. 1 of them are pooled codes, which the holder shares with other carriers in blocks of 1,000 numbers. The table counts codes by the operating company NANPA assigned them to, not by who serves each number today.

Exchanges (NPA-NXX) assigned in Decatur

These are the central office codes NANPA records for Decatur. A caller seeing one of them recognizes a local number. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2023. 1 of the 2 were assigned in 2020 or later.

Rate centers and local calling in Decatur

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

Keeping an existing Decatur number costs nothing on Callata, because porting is free; a new number depends on what carriers have open in 601 when you pick it.

Who does business near Decatur

Decatur is outside any Census metro or micropolitan area, so the figures below are statewide. County Business Patterns counted 60,465 business establishments in Mississippi in 2023, employing 956,079 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (11,303), health care and social assistance (7,038), and other services (except public administration) (6,523).

Setting up a Decatur 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.

If you already have a number in Decatur, 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.

Per-seat phone plans multiply by headcount. For the rounded average establishment size in Mississippi, 16 users on RingCentral RingEX Core come to $480.00 a month and on Ooma Office Pro $399.20, at month-to-month list prices checked September 28, 2026. On Callata the same 16 people cost $319.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.