Get a local business phone number in Moss Point, MS

What area code is Moss Point, MS?

Moss Point city is a Census place in Jackson County, Mississippi, with an estimated 11,791 residents in 2024. All 9 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 228. Moss Point 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.

Who holds Moss Point phone exchanges

6 carriers hold the 9 exchanges assigned to Moss Point's rate center. Paetec Itel, LLC 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.

Moss Point phone prefixes

Each prefix below is a block of up to 10,000 numbers that NANPA assigned to Moss Point's rate center (MOSS POINT). The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 2 of the 9 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Moss Point's exchanges were assigned

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

How local numbers work in Moss Point

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

Keeping an existing Moss Point number costs nothing on Callata, because porting is free; a new number depends on what carriers have open in 228 when you pick it.

Who does business near Moss Point

Moss Point 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).

Setting up a Moss Point 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.

Porting a number you already use in Moss Point 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.

Per-seat phone plans multiply by headcount. For the rounded average establishment size in the Gulfport, MS metro area, 17 users on RingCentral RingEX Core come to $510.00 a month and on Ooma Office Pro $424.15, at month-to-month list prices checked September 28, 2026. Callata comes to $339.00 a month for 17 users ($99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user), below both.