Get a local business phone number in Buffalo, NY

What area code is Buffalo, NY?

With 276,617 residents in the Census 2024 estimate, Buffalo sits in Erie County, New York. All 266 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 716. 716 is part of an overlay with 624, so a new local number in Buffalo may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Buffalo is in the Eastern time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 716 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as ten digits (area code plus number).

Who holds Buffalo phone exchanges

45 carriers hold the 266 exchanges assigned to Buffalo's rate center. Verizon New York, INC. has the most, with 72. 183 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.

Local prefixes for Buffalo

These are the central office codes NANPA records for Buffalo. A caller seeing one of them recognizes a local number. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 17 of the 266 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Buffalo's exchanges were assigned

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

Rate centers and local calling in Buffalo

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

Keeping an existing Buffalo number costs nothing on Callata, because porting is free; a new number depends on what carriers have open in 716 when you pick it.

Who does business near Buffalo

Buffalo is part of the Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY metro area, home to 1.2 million people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 26,972 business establishments in the Buffalo, NY metro area in 2023, employing 475,966 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (3,838), health care and social assistance (3,163), and accommodation and food services (2,855).

Setting up a Buffalo business line

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 Buffalo, 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 18 users, the rounded average establishment size in the Buffalo, NY metro area. At list prices checked September 28, 2026, that is $449.10 a month on Ooma Office Pro and $540.00 on RingCentral RingEX Core. On Callata the same 18 people cost $359.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.