Get a local business phone number in Passaic, NJ

Passaic area codes

Passaic city is a Census place in Passaic County, New Jersey, with an estimated 70,722 residents in 2024. NANPA lists 87 exchanges for its rate center across 3 area codes; 973 has the most (46, 53%). 973 is part of an overlay with 862, so a new local number in Passaic may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Passaic 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).

Phone carriers in Passaic

17 carriers hold the 87 exchanges assigned to Passaic's rate center. Verizon New Jersey, INC. has the most, with 22. 66 of them are pooled codes, which the holder shares with other carriers in blocks of 1,000 numbers. A business number in Passaic can come from any of these blocks; once it is yours, porting lets it move between providers.

Exchanges (NPA-NXX) assigned in Passaic

A prefix (NXX) is the three digits after the area code. Numbers starting with these prefixes are rated as local to Passaic. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 16 of the 87 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Passaic's exchanges were assigned

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

What makes a number local to Passaic

What a caller sees as "local" is the area code plus prefix. In Passaic, those come from the PASSAIC rate center, as recorded by NANPA.

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 Passaic

Passaic 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).

Business phone service in Passaic

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 Passaic, 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.

A 15-person team is the benchmark here, the rounded average establishment size in the New York, NY-NJ metro area. Billed per seat at month-to-month list prices (checked September 28, 2026), RingCentral RingEX Core costs $450.00 a month and Ooma Office Pro $374.25. On Callata the same 15 people cost $299.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.