Get a local business phone number in Greenville, SC

What area code is Greenville, SC?

With 74,371 residents in the Census 2024 estimate, Greenville sits in Greenville County, South Carolina. NANPA lists 213 exchanges for its rate center across 2 area codes; 864 has the most (209, 98%). 864 is part of an overlay with 821, so a new local number in Greenville may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Greenville is in the Eastern time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 864 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Who holds Greenville phone exchanges

38 carriers hold the 213 exchanges assigned to Greenville's rate center. Bellsouth Telecomm INC d/b/a Southern Bell Tel & Tel has the most, with 56. 127 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.

Greenville phone prefixes

A prefix (NXX) is the three digits after the area code. Numbers starting with these prefixes are rated as local to Greenville. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 23 of the 213 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Greenville's exchanges were assigned

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

Rate centers and local calling in Greenville

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

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

Businesses around Greenville

Greenville is part of the Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC metro area, home to 997,000 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 22,892 business establishments in the Greenville, SC metro area in 2023, employing 383,864 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (3,176), professional, scientific, and technical services (2,657), and other services (except public administration) (2,411).

A Greenville number on Callata

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Porting a number you already use in Greenville 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 17 users, the rounded average establishment size in the Greenville, SC metro area. At list prices checked September 28, 2026, that is $424.15 a month on Ooma Office Pro and $510.00 on RingCentral RingEX Core. Callata comes to $339.00 a month for 17 users ($99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user), below both.