Get a local business phone number in Elizabethtown, PA

Area codes in Elizabethtown

With 11,993 residents in the Census 2024 estimate, Elizabethtown sits in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. NANPA lists 8 exchanges for its rate center across 2 area codes; 717 has the most (5, 63%). 717 is part of an overlay with 223, so a new local number in Elizabethtown may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Elizabethtown is in the Eastern time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 717 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as ten digits (area code plus number).

Elizabethtown exchanges by carrier

5 carriers hold the 8 exchanges assigned to Elizabethtown's rate center. Brightspeed of Pennsylvania, LLC has the most, with 3. 6 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.

Exchanges (NPA-NXX) assigned in Elizabethtown

Each prefix below is a block of up to 10,000 numbers that NANPA assigned to Elizabethtown's rate center (ELIZABTHTN). The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2009. 2 of the 8 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Elizabethtown's exchanges were assigned

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

How local numbers work in Elizabethtown

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

Keeping an existing Elizabethtown number costs nothing on Callata, because porting is free; a new number depends on what carriers have open in 717 when you pick it.

Who does business near Elizabethtown

Elizabethtown is part of the Lancaster, PA metro area, home to 563,000 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 13,776 business establishments in the Lancaster, PA metro area in 2023, employing 249,379 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are construction (1,919), retail trade (1,887), and other services (except public administration) (1,791).

Business phone service in Elizabethtown

Callata Office costs $99 per month for up to 5 people, and each additional user is $20 a month. That covers up to 3 local numbers, calling from a browser or your cell, transcribed voicemail, recorded calls with AI summaries, after-hours routing and E911 on each number.

Porting a number you already use in Elizabethtown 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 18 users, the rounded average establishment size in the Lancaster, PA metro area. At list prices checked September 28, 2026, that is $449.10 a month on Ooma Office Pro and $540.00 on RingCentral RingEX Core. Callata comes to $359.00 a month for 18 users ($99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user), below both.