Get a local business phone number in Oxford, MS

What area code is Oxford, MS?

With 26,801 residents in the Census 2024 estimate, Oxford sits in Lafayette County, Mississippi. All 21 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 Oxford may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Oxford 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.

Oxford exchanges by carrier

9 carriers hold the 21 exchanges assigned to Oxford's rate center. Bellsouth Telecomm INC d/b/a South Central Bell Tel has the most, with 8. 14 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.

Oxford phone prefixes

These are the central office codes NANPA records for Oxford. A caller seeing one of them recognizes a local number. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. None were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Oxford's exchanges were assigned

Assignment dates show when each block of Oxford numbers was added to the local supply.

Rate centers and local calling in Oxford

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

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 Oxford

Oxford is part of the Oxford, MS micropolitan area, home to 72,301 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 1,604 business establishments in the Oxford, MS micropolitan area in 2023, employing 21,223 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (276), accommodation and food services (230), and health care and social assistance (213).

A Oxford number on Callata

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 Oxford, 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 the Oxford, MS micropolitan area, 13 users on RingCentral RingEX Core come to $390.00 a month and on Ooma Office Pro $324.35, at month-to-month list prices checked September 28, 2026. On Callata the same 13 people cost $259.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.