Get a local business phone number in Odessa, MO

What area code is Odessa, MO?

With 5,689 residents in the Census 2024 estimate, Odessa sits in Lafayette County, Missouri. All 8 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 816. 816 is part of an overlay with 975, so a new local number in Odessa may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Odessa is in the Central time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 816 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Phone carriers in Odessa

6 carriers hold the 8 exchanges assigned to Odessa's rate center. Embarq Missouri, INC. d/b/a Centurylink - Mo has the most, with 2. 7 of them are pooled codes, which the holder shares with other carriers in blocks of 1,000 numbers. A business number in Odessa can come from any of these blocks; once it is yours, porting lets it move between providers.

Local prefixes for Odessa

These are the central office codes NANPA records for Odessa. 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.

How local numbers work in Odessa

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

Keeping an existing Odessa number costs nothing on Callata, because porting is free; a new number depends on what carriers have open in 816 when you pick it.

Who does business near Odessa

Odessa is part of the Kansas City, MO-KS metro area, home to 2.3 million people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 55,104 business establishments in the Kansas City, MO-KS metro area in 2023, employing 1,016,941 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are health care and social assistance (7,042), professional, scientific, and technical services (6,702), and retail trade (6,258).

Business phone service in Odessa

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 Odessa 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.

The comparison below uses 18 users, the rounded average establishment size in the Kansas City, MO-KS metro area. At list prices checked September 28, 2026, that is $449.10 a month on Ooma Office Pro and $540.00 on RingCentral RingEX Core. Callata comes to $359.00 a month for 18 users ($99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user), below both.