Get a local business phone number in Granville, OH

What area code is Granville, OH?

With 10,745 residents in the Census 2024 estimate, Granville sits in Licking County, Ohio. All 4 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 740. 740 is part of an overlay with 220, so a new local number in Granville may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Granville is in the Eastern time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 740 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Granville exchanges by carrier

3 carriers hold the 4 exchanges assigned to Granville's rate center. Windstream Ohio, LLC has the most, with 2. 2 of them are pooled codes, which the holder shares with other carriers in blocks of 1,000 numbers. A business number in Granville can come from any of these blocks; once it is yours, porting lets it move between providers.

Granville phone prefixes

A prefix (NXX) is the three digits after the area code. Numbers starting with these prefixes are rated as local to Granville. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2005. None were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Granville's exchanges were assigned

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

Rate centers and local calling in Granville

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

New local numbers are drawn from carrier inventory, so the exact 740 numbers available change over time; porting an existing number is free.

Who does business near Granville

Granville is part of the Columbus, OH metro area, home to 2.2 million people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 46,419 business establishments in the Columbus, OH metro area in 2023, employing 985,064 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are health care and social assistance (6,208), retail trade (5,594), and professional, scientific, and technical services (5,419).

A Granville number on Callata

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.

If you already have a number in Granville, 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.

Per-seat phone plans multiply by headcount. For the rounded average establishment size in the Columbus, OH metro area, 21 users on RingCentral RingEX Core come to $630.00 a month and on Ooma Office Pro $523.95, at month-to-month list prices checked September 28, 2026. On Callata the same 21 people cost $419.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.