Get a local business phone number in Leonia, NJ
Leonia's area codes, prefixes and carriers from NANPA records, and how to put a Leonia number in front of your customers.
- Area code
- 201 / 551
- Exchanges
- 25NANPA-assigned
- Carriers
- 12
- Population
- 9,492Census 2024 est.
What area code is Leonia, NJ?
Leonia borough is a Census place in Bergen County, New Jersey, with an estimated 9,492 residents in 2024. NANPA lists 25 exchanges for its rate center across 2 area codes; 201 has the most (19, 76%). 201 is part of an overlay with 551, so a new local number in Leonia may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Leonia is in the Eastern time zone.
According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 201 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as ten digits (area code plus number).
Who holds Leonia phone exchanges
12 carriers hold the 25 exchanges assigned to Leonia's rate center. Verizon New Jersey, INC. has the most, with 9. 17 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.
| Carrier (NANPA operating company) | Exchanges | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Verizon New Jersey, INC. | 9 | 36% |
| Mcimetro Access Transmission Services LLC | 3 | 12% |
| Level 3 Communications, LLC - NJ | 2 | 8.0% |
| Onvoy, LLC - NJ | 2 | 8.0% |
| Fractel, LLC | 2 | 8.0% |
| AT&T - Local | 1 | 4.0% |
| Mcimetro Access Transmission Services LLC - NJ | 1 | 4.0% |
| Teleport Communications America, LLC - NJ | 1 | 4.0% |
| Monmouth Telephone and Telegraph, INC. - NJ | 1 | 4.0% |
| Paetec Itel, LLC | 1 | 4.0% |
| Bandwidth.com CLEC, LLC - NJ | 1 | 4.0% |
| Ton80 Communications, LLC | 1 | 4.0% |
Carrier names are the operating company (OCN) names on NANPA's utilized central office code file dated 10/01/2026. A carrier holding a code may port numbers to other carriers.
Local prefixes for Leonia
These are the central office codes NANPA records for Leonia. A caller seeing one of them recognizes a local number. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 5 of the 25 were assigned in 2020 or later.
| Area code | Prefixes (NXX) |
|---|---|
| 201 | 228, 242, 292, 302, 346, 363, 429, 461, 482, 548, 582, 585, 592, 613, 676, 720, 849, 944, 947 |
| 551 | 272, 348, 360, 415, 465, 688 |
Source: NANPA utilized central office code file.
When Leonia's exchanges were assigned
Assignment dates show when each block of Leonia numbers was added to the local supply.
| Decade assigned | Exchanges | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 3 | 33% |
| 2010s | 1 | 11% |
| 2020s | 5 | 56% |
Assignment dates as recorded in NANPA's utilized code file; codes without a recorded date are excluded.
What makes a number local to Leonia
What a caller sees as "local" is the area code plus prefix. In Leonia, those come from the LEONIA rate center, as recorded by NANPA.
Keeping an existing Leonia number costs nothing on Callata, because porting is free; a new number depends on what carriers have open in 201 when you pick it.
Businesses around Leonia
Leonia 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).
| Industry | Establishments | Employees | Employees per establishment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full-service restaurants | 19,706 | 318,739 | 16.2 |
| Limited-service restaurants | 18,189 | 193,213 | 10.6 |
| Physician practices | 15,136 | 159,084 | 10.5 |
| Residential remodelers | 12,751 | 42,593 | 3.3 |
| Law offices | 12,736 | 122,203 | 9.6 |
| Dental offices | 9,582 | 62,116 | 6.5 |
| Supermarkets and grocery stores | 8,596 | 164,591 | 19.1 |
| Beauty salons | 8,444 | 36,882 | 4.4 |
Selected small-business industries (six-digit NAICS) covered by these guides. Source: Census County Business Patterns 2023.
A Leonia 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 Leonia, 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.
Per-seat phone plans multiply by headcount. For the rounded average establishment size in the New York, NY-NJ metro area, 15 users on RingCentral RingEX Core come to $450.00 a month and on Ooma Office Pro $374.25, at month-to-month list prices checked September 28, 2026. On Callata the same 15 people cost $299.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.
| Provider (plan) | Pricing basis | Per month | Per year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Callata (Callata Office) | $99 incl. 5 users, $20 per extra user | $299.00 | $3,588.00 |
| Quo (Starter) | $19.00 per user | $285.00 | $3,420.00 |
| Nextiva (Core) | $23.00 per user | $345.00 | $4,140.00 |
| Ooma (Office Pro) | $24.95 per user | $374.25 | $4,491.00 |
| Dialpad (Standard) | $27.00 per user | $405.00 | $4,860.00 |
| RingCentral (RingEX Core) | $30.00 per user | $450.00 | $5,400.00 |
Competitor prices are each vendor's published month-to-month list price per user for its lowest plan that includes business calling and texting, checked September 28, 2026: Quo Starter $19, Nextiva Core $23, Ooma Office Pro $24.95 (Essentials excludes texting; one-time $29.95 activation not included), Dialpad Standard $27, RingCentral RingEX Core $30 ($20 billed annually). Prices exclude taxes and fees and may change; annual contracts lower some competitors' prices.
Frequently asked questions
What area code is Leonia, NJ?
Leonia has exchanges in 201 and 551; 201 has the most.
How many phone companies have exchanges in Leonia?
12, holding 25 exchanges between them, according to NANPA's 10/01/2026 file.
Can I keep my existing Leonia business number?
Yes. Porting an existing number to Callata is free. Texting from it starts after carrier registration (10DLC), a one-time $49 fee.
How much is a business phone line in Leonia?
Callata is $99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user, with up to 3 local numbers; 15 users come to $299.00 a month. For comparison, 15 users on RingCentral RingEX Core list at $450.00 a month (checked September 28, 2026).