Get a local business phone number in Hawthorne, NJ

What area code is Hawthorne, NJ?

With 20,006 residents in the Census 2024 estimate, Hawthorne sits in Passaic County, New Jersey. NANPA lists 16 exchanges for its rate center across 2 area codes; 973 has the most (11, 69%). 973 is part of an overlay with 862, so a new local number in Hawthorne may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Hawthorne is in the Eastern time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 973 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as ten digits (area code plus number).

Hawthorne exchanges by carrier

9 carriers hold the 16 exchanges assigned to Hawthorne's rate center. Verizon New Jersey, INC. has the most, with 5. 14 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.

Hawthorne phone prefixes

A prefix (NXX) is the three digits after the area code. Numbers starting with these prefixes are rated as local to Hawthorne. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2002. 4 of the 16 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Hawthorne's exchanges were assigned

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

Rate centers and local calling in Hawthorne

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

If your business already has a Hawthorne number, porting it to Callata is free and keeps it on your cards, listings and vehicles.

Who does business near Hawthorne

Hawthorne is part of the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area, home to 19.9 million people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 562,802 business establishments in the New York, NY-NJ metro area in 2023, employing 8,559,248 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are professional, scientific, and technical services (71,000), retail trade (70,682), and health care and social assistance (65,817).

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