Get a local business phone number in Scranton, PA

What area code is Scranton, PA?

Scranton city is a Census place in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, with an estimated 75,905 residents in 2024. NANPA lists 80 exchanges for its rate center across 2 area codes; 570 has the most (64, 80%). 570 is part of an overlay with 272, so a new local number in Scranton may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Scranton is in the Eastern time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 570 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as ten digits (area code plus number).

Phone carriers in Scranton

35 carriers hold the 80 exchanges assigned to Scranton's rate center. Verizon Pennsylvania, INC. has the most, with 15. 60 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 Scranton

Each prefix below is a block of up to 10,000 numbers that NANPA assigned to Scranton's rate center (SCRANTON). The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 11 of the 80 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Scranton's exchanges were assigned

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

Rate centers and local calling in Scranton

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

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

Businesses around Scranton

Scranton is part of the Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA metro area, home to 574,000 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 13,043 business establishments in the Scranton, PA metro area in 2023, employing 238,473 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (2,050), health care and social assistance (1,919), and other services (except public administration) (1,430).

Setting up a Scranton business line

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Porting a number you already use in Scranton 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.

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The comparison below uses 18 users, the rounded average establishment size in the Scranton, 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.