Get a local business phone number in Kingstree, SC

What area code is Kingstree, SC?

Kingstree, in Williamsburg County, South Carolina, had a Census-estimated population of 3,055 in July 2024. NANPA lists 8 exchanges for its rate center across 2 area codes; 843 has the most (6, 75%). 843 is part of an overlay with 854, so a new local number in Kingstree may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Kingstree 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.

Kingstree exchanges by carrier

7 carriers hold the 8 exchanges assigned to Kingstree's rate center. New Cingular Wireless PCS, LLC - Ga has the most, with 2. 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.

Kingstree phone prefixes

These are the central office codes NANPA records for Kingstree. A caller seeing one of them recognizes a local number. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2003. 1 of the 8 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Kingstree's exchanges were assigned

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

Rate centers and local calling in Kingstree

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

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

Who does business near Kingstree

Kingstree is outside any Census metro or micropolitan area, so the figures below are statewide. County Business Patterns counted 122,958 business establishments in South Carolina in 2023, employing 2,067,143 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (18,647), other services (except public administration) (12,908), and health care and social assistance (12,694).

A Kingstree number on Callata

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 Kingstree, 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.

A 17-person team is the benchmark here, the rounded average establishment size in South Carolina. Billed per seat at month-to-month list prices (checked September 28, 2026), RingCentral RingEX Core costs $510.00 a month and Ooma Office Pro $424.15. On Callata the same 17 people cost $339.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.