Get a local business phone number in Starkville, MS

Area codes in Starkville

Starkville, in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, had a Census-estimated population of 25,844 in July 2024. All 25 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 Starkville may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Starkville 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.

Starkville exchanges by carrier

10 carriers hold the 25 exchanges assigned to Starkville's rate center. Bellsouth Telecomm INC d/b/a South Central Bell Tel has the most, with 8. 19 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 Starkville

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

What makes a number local to Starkville

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

Keeping an existing Starkville number costs nothing on Callata, because porting is free; a new number depends on what carriers have open in 662 when you pick it.

The local business market

Starkville is part of the Starkville, MS micropolitan area, home to 62,004 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 1,145 business establishments in the Starkville, MS micropolitan area in 2023, employing 14,709 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (216), accommodation and food services (166), and other services (except public administration) (126).

A Starkville number on Callata

Callata Office costs $99 per month for up to 5 people, and each additional user is $20 a month. That covers up to 3 local numbers, calling from a browser or your cell, transcribed voicemail, recorded calls with AI summaries, after-hours routing and E911 on each number.

Porting a number you already use in Starkville 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.

A 13-person team is the benchmark here, the rounded average establishment size in the Starkville, MS micropolitan area. Billed per seat at month-to-month list prices (checked September 28, 2026), RingCentral RingEX Core costs $390.00 a month and Ooma Office Pro $324.35. Callata comes to $259.00 a month for 13 users ($99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user), below both.