Get a local business phone number in Beaufort, SC

Beaufort area codes

Beaufort, in Beaufort County, South Carolina, had a Census-estimated population of 14,334 in July 2024. NANPA lists 41 exchanges for its rate center across 2 area codes; 843 has the most (31, 76%). 843 is part of an overlay with 854, so a new local number in Beaufort may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Beaufort is in the Eastern time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 843 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Phone carriers in Beaufort

9 carriers hold the 41 exchanges assigned to Beaufort's rate center. Powertel Atlanta Licenses, INC. has the most, with 15. 29 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 Beaufort

A prefix (NXX) is the three digits after the area code. Numbers starting with these prefixes are rated as local to Beaufort. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 10 of the 41 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Beaufort's exchanges were assigned

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

How local numbers work in Beaufort

NANPA ties every exchange to a rate center. For Beaufort that is BEAUFORT, so a number from one of these exchanges reads as local to people in and around Beaufort.

Keeping an existing Beaufort number costs nothing on Callata, because porting is free; a new number depends on what carriers have open in 843 when you pick it.

The local business market

Beaufort is part of the Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC metro area, home to 237,000 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 6,925 business establishments in the Hilton Head Island, SC metro area in 2023, employing 68,808 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (945), construction (934), and professional, scientific, and technical services (765).

Setting up a Beaufort business line

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.

If you already have a number in Beaufort, 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 Hilton Head Island, SC metro area, 10 users on RingCentral RingEX Core come to $300.00 a month and on Ooma Office Pro $249.50, at month-to-month list prices checked September 28, 2026. On Callata the same 10 people cost $199.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.