Get a local business phone number in Lima, OH

Area codes in Lima

Lima, in Allen County, Ohio, had a Census-estimated population of 34,690 in July 2024. NANPA lists 69 exchanges for its rate center across 2 area codes; 419 has the most (40, 58%). 419 is part of an overlay with 567, so a new local number in Lima may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Lima is in the Eastern time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 419 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Lima exchanges by carrier

18 carriers hold the 69 exchanges assigned to Lima's rate center. New Cingular Wireless PCS, LLC - Il has the most, with 21. 43 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.

Exchanges (NPA-NXX) assigned in Lima

These are the central office codes NANPA records for Lima. A caller seeing one of them recognizes a local number. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 22 of the 69 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Lima's exchanges were assigned

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

What makes a number local to Lima

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

Keeping an existing Lima number costs nothing on Callata, because porting is free; a new number depends on what carriers have open in 419 when you pick it.

The local business market

Lima is part of the Lima, OH metro area, home to 101,000 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 2,239 business establishments in the Lima, OH metro area in 2023, employing 44,251 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (368), other services (except public administration) (306), and health care and social assistance (265).

A Lima 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.

Porting a number you already use in Lima 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.

Per-seat phone plans multiply by headcount. For the rounded average establishment size in the Lima, OH metro area, 20 users on RingCentral RingEX Core come to $600.00 a month and on Ooma Office Pro $499.00, at month-to-month list prices checked September 28, 2026. Callata comes to $399.00 a month for 20 users ($99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user), below both.