Get a local business phone number in Selma, NC

Area codes in Selma

Selma town is a Census place in Johnston County, North Carolina, with an estimated 7,228 residents in 2024. NANPA lists 11 exchanges for its rate center across 2 area codes; 919 has the most (6, 55%). 919 is part of an overlay with 984, so a new local number in Selma may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Selma 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 Selma phone exchanges

8 carriers hold the 11 exchanges assigned to Selma's rate center. Bellsouth Telecomm INC d/b/a Southern Bell Tel & Tel has the most, with 3. 8 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 Selma

Each prefix below is a block of up to 10,000 numbers that NANPA assigned to Selma's rate center (SELMA). The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2014. 3 of the 11 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Selma's exchanges were assigned

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

How local numbers work in Selma

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

If your business already has a Selma number, porting it to Callata is free and keeps it on your cards, listings and vehicles.

The local business market

Selma is part of the Raleigh-Cary, NC metro area, home to 1.6 million people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 39,252 business establishments in the Raleigh, NC metro area in 2023, employing 617,511 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are professional, scientific, and technical services (6,345), construction (4,424), and retail trade (4,345).

Setting up a Selma business line

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If you already have a number in Selma, 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 16 users, the rounded average establishment size in the Raleigh, NC metro area. At list prices checked September 28, 2026, that is $399.20 a month on Ooma Office Pro and $480.00 on RingCentral RingEX Core. On Callata the same 16 people cost $319.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.