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Morristown area codes

Morristown town is a Census place in Morris County, New Jersey, with an estimated 20,732 residents in 2024. NANPA lists 134 exchanges for its rate center across 3 area codes; 973 has the most (90, 67%). 973 is part of an overlay with 862, so a new local number in Morristown may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Morristown 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).

Morristown exchanges by carrier

20 carriers hold the 134 exchanges assigned to Morristown's rate center. Verizon New Jersey, INC. has the most, with 33. 86 of them are pooled codes, which the holder shares with other carriers in blocks of 1,000 numbers. A business number in Morristown can come from any of these blocks; once it is yours, porting lets it move between providers.

Morristown phone prefixes

A prefix (NXX) is the three digits after the area code. Numbers starting with these prefixes are rated as local to Morristown. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 14 of the 134 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Morristown's exchanges were assigned

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

What makes a number local to Morristown

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

New local numbers are drawn from carrier inventory, so the exact 973 numbers available change over time; porting an existing number is free.

Businesses around Morristown

Morristown 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).

A Morristown 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 Morristown, 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.

The comparison below uses 15 users, the rounded average establishment size in the New York, NY-NJ metro area. At list prices checked September 28, 2026, that is $374.25 a month on Ooma Office Pro and $450.00 on RingCentral RingEX Core. On Callata the same 15 people cost $299.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.