Get a local business phone number in Ridgewood, NJ

Area codes in Ridgewood

With 26,701 residents in the Census 2024 estimate, Ridgewood sits in Bergen County, New Jersey. NANPA lists 30 exchanges for its rate center across 2 area codes; 201 has the most (20, 67%). 201 is part of an overlay with 551, so a new local number in Ridgewood may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Ridgewood 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).

Phone carriers in Ridgewood

13 carriers hold the 30 exchanges assigned to Ridgewood's rate center. Verizon New Jersey, INC. has the most, with 9. 22 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.

Exchanges (NPA-NXX) assigned in Ridgewood

These are the central office codes NANPA records for Ridgewood. 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 30 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Ridgewood's exchanges were assigned

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

Rate centers and local calling in Ridgewood

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

New local numbers are drawn from carrier inventory, so the exact 201 numbers available change over time; porting an existing number is free.

Who does business near Ridgewood

Ridgewood 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).

Setting up a Ridgewood business line

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