Get a local business phone number in Pascagoula, MS

Area codes in Pascagoula

With 21,476 residents in the Census 2024 estimate, Pascagoula sits in Jackson County, Mississippi. All 37 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 228. Pascagoula 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 Pascagoula phone exchanges

11 carriers hold the 37 exchanges assigned to Pascagoula's rate center. Bellsouth Telecomm INC d/b/a South Central Bell Tel has the most, with 13. 24 of them are pooled codes, which the holder shares with other carriers in blocks of 1,000 numbers. A business number in Pascagoula can come from any of these blocks; once it is yours, porting lets it move between providers.

Local prefixes for Pascagoula

Each prefix below is a block of up to 10,000 numbers that NANPA assigned to Pascagoula's rate center (PASCAGOULA). The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. None were assigned in 2020 or later.

Rate centers and local calling in Pascagoula

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

New local numbers are drawn from carrier inventory, so the exact 228 numbers available change over time; porting an existing number is free.

Who does business near Pascagoula

Pascagoula 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 Pascagoula 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.

If you already have a number in Pascagoula, 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.

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. On Callata the same 17 people cost $339.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.