Get a local business phone number in Madison, NC

What area code is Madison, NC?

Madison town is a Census place in Rockingham County, North Carolina, with an estimated 2,176 residents in 2024. NANPA lists 7 exchanges for its rate center across 2 area codes; 336 has the most (6, 86%). 336 is part of an overlay with 743, so a new local number in Madison may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Madison is in the Eastern time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 336 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Phone carriers in Madison

5 carriers hold the 7 exchanges assigned to Madison's rate center. Brightspeed of North Carolina, LLC has the most, with 3. 4 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 Madison

These are the central office codes NANPA records for Madison. A caller seeing one of them recognizes a local number. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2005. 1 of the 7 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Madison's exchanges were assigned

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

Rate centers and local calling in Madison

NANPA ties every exchange to a rate center. For Madison that is MADISON, so a number from one of these exchanges reads as local to people in and around Madison.

New local numbers are drawn from carrier inventory, so the exact 336 numbers available change over time; porting an existing number is free.

Businesses around Madison

Madison is part of the Greensboro-High Point, NC metro area, home to 801,000 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 18,589 business establishments in the Greensboro, NC metro area in 2023, employing 324,893 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (2,563), other services (except public administration) (1,911), and construction (1,863).

Setting up a Madison business line

Callata is a business phone system priced at $99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user. Callata Office includes up to 3 local business numbers, unlimited inbound calling, 1,500 pooled outbound US and Canada minutes per user each month, a browser softphone that can also ring your cell, voicemail with transcription, call recording with AI summaries, business-hours routing and E911 on every number.

Porting a number you already use in Madison 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.

The comparison below uses 17 users, the rounded average establishment size in the Greensboro, NC metro area. At list prices checked September 28, 2026, that is $424.15 a month on Ooma Office Pro and $510.00 on RingCentral RingEX Core. Callata comes to $339.00 a month for 17 users ($99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user), below both.