Get a local business phone number in Durant, MS

What area code is Durant, MS?

With 1,973 residents in the Census 2024 estimate, Durant sits in Holmes County, Mississippi. All 3 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 662. 662 is part of an overlay with 471, so a new local number in Durant may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Durant is in the Central time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 662 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Who holds Durant phone exchanges

3 carriers hold the 3 exchanges assigned to Durant's rate center. Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless - MS has the most, with 1. 3 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.

Local prefixes for Durant

These are the central office codes NANPA records for Durant. A caller seeing one of them recognizes a local number. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2003. None were assigned in 2020 or later.

Rate centers and local calling in Durant

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

New local numbers are drawn from carrier inventory, so the exact 662 numbers available change over time; porting an existing number is free.

Who does business near Durant

Durant is part of the Jackson, MS metro area, home to 606,000 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 14,359 business establishments in the Jackson, MS metro area in 2023, employing 230,566 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (2,303), health care and social assistance (1,794), and other services (except public administration) (1,484).

Setting up a Durant business line

Callata is a business phone system priced at $99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user. Callata Office includes up to 3 local business numbers, unlimited inbound calling, 1,500 pooled outbound US and Canada minutes per user each month, a browser softphone that can also ring your cell, voicemail with transcription, call recording with AI summaries, business-hours routing and E911 on every number.

If you already have a number in Durant, 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 16-person team is the benchmark here, the rounded average establishment size in the Jackson, MS metro area. Billed per seat at month-to-month list prices (checked September 28, 2026), RingCentral RingEX Core costs $480.00 a month and Ooma Office Pro $399.20. On Callata the same 16 people cost $319.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.