Get a local business phone number in Keene, NY

What area code is Keene, NY?

Keene town is a Census town in Essex County, New York, with an estimated 1,128 residents in 2024. NANPA lists 3 exchanges for its rate center across 2 area codes; 518 has the most (2, 67%). 518 is part of an overlay with 838, so a new local number in Keene may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Keene is in the Eastern time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 518 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as ten digits (area code plus number).

Phone carriers in Keene

3 carriers hold the 3 exchanges assigned to Keene's rate center. Verizon New York, INC. has the most, with 1. 3 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.

Local prefixes for Keene

A prefix (NXX) is the three digits after the area code. Numbers starting with these prefixes are rated as local to Keene. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2015. 1 of the 3 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Keene's exchanges were assigned

The table groups Keene's exchanges by the decade NANPA recorded them as assigned.

Rate centers and local calling in Keene

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

Keeping an existing Keene number costs nothing on Callata, because porting is free; a new number depends on what carriers have open in 518 when you pick it.

Businesses around Keene

Keene is outside any Census metro or micropolitan area, so the figures below are statewide. County Business Patterns counted 541,313 business establishments in New York in 2023, employing 8,767,091 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (71,941), professional, scientific, and technical services (62,625), and health care and social assistance (61,104).

Setting up a Keene 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.

Porting a number you already use in Keene is free, and business texting is available once the carrier registration (10DLC) is approved; the registration carries a one-time $49 fee. Which specific numbers are open in a given area code depends on carrier inventory at the time you sign up.

AI agents are optional: an AI receptionist or scheduler can pick up when the team is busy or closed, take a message, send a text or email, or transfer the call. They draw on prepaid AI minutes ($0.25/minute), disclose that they are AI, and outbound AI calls require prior consent and are limited to 8am–9pm.

A 16-person team is the benchmark here, the rounded average establishment size in New York. Billed per seat at month-to-month list prices (checked September 28, 2026), RingCentral RingEX Core costs $480.00 a month and Ooma Office Pro $399.20. Callata comes to $319.00 a month for 16 users ($99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user), below both.