Get a local business phone number in Oxford, NC

What area code is Oxford, NC?

Oxford, in Granville County, North Carolina, had a Census-estimated population of 8,972 in July 2024. NANPA lists 19 exchanges for its rate center across 2 area codes; 919 has the most (12, 63%). 919 is part of an overlay with 984, so a new local number in Oxford may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Oxford is in the Eastern time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 919 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Who holds Oxford phone exchanges

9 carriers hold the 19 exchanges assigned to Oxford's rate center. Brightspeed of Eastern North Carolina, LLC has the most, with 4. 18 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 Oxford

These are the central office codes NANPA records for Oxford. A caller seeing one of them recognizes a local number. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2002. 4 of the 19 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Oxford's exchanges were assigned

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

What makes a number local to Oxford

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

New local numbers are drawn from carrier inventory, so the exact 919 numbers available change over time; porting an existing number is free.

Businesses around Oxford

Oxford is outside any Census metro or micropolitan area, so the figures below are statewide. County Business Patterns counted 258,169 business establishments in North Carolina in 2023, employing 4,279,425 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (35,534), construction (28,390), and professional, scientific, and technical services (28,189).

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