Get a local business phone number in Leadwood, MO

What area code is Leadwood, MO?

Leadwood city is a Census place in St. Francois County, Missouri, with an estimated 1,155 residents in 2024. All 2 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 573. 573 is part of an overlay with 235, so a new local number in Leadwood may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Leadwood is in the Central time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 573 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Phone carriers in Leadwood

2 carriers hold the 2 exchanges assigned to Leadwood's rate center. Southwestern Bell has the most, with 1. 2 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.

Local prefixes for Leadwood

A prefix (NXX) is the three digits after the area code. Numbers starting with these prefixes are rated as local to Leadwood. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2016. None were assigned in 2020 or later.

Rate centers and local calling in Leadwood

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

Keeping an existing Leadwood number costs nothing on Callata, because porting is free; a new number depends on what carriers have open in 573 when you pick it.

Businesses around Leadwood

Leadwood is part of the Farmington, MO micropolitan area, home to 67,503 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 1,438 business establishments in the Farmington, MO micropolitan area in 2023, employing 17,990 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are health care and social assistance (256), retail trade (225), and other services (except public administration) (160).

Setting up a Leadwood 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 Leadwood 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 Farmington, MO 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. Callata comes to $259.00 a month for 13 users ($99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user), below both.