Get a local business phone number in Lake City, SC

Area codes in Lake City

With 5,916 residents in the Census 2024 estimate, Lake City sits in Florence County, South Carolina. NANPA lists 7 exchanges for its rate center across 2 area codes; 843 has the most (5, 71%). 843 is part of an overlay with 854, so a new local number in Lake City may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Lake City 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.

Lake City exchanges by carrier

6 carriers hold the 7 exchanges assigned to Lake City's rate center. Frontier Communications of the Carolinas INC. - SC has the most, with 2. 4 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 Lake City

Each prefix below is a block of up to 10,000 numbers that NANPA assigned to Lake City's rate center (LAKE CITY). The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2002. 1 of the 7 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Lake City's exchanges were assigned

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

How local numbers work in Lake City

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

New local numbers are drawn from carrier inventory, so the exact 843 numbers available change over time; porting an existing number is free.

Who does business near Lake City

Lake City is part of the Florence, SC metro area, home to 200,000 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 4,403 business establishments in the Florence, SC metro area in 2023, employing 83,945 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (912), health care and social assistance (568), and other services (except public administration) (496).

Business phone service in Lake City

Callata is a business phone system priced at $99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user. Callata Office includes up to 3 local business numbers, unlimited inbound calling, 1,500 pooled outbound US and Canada minutes per user each month, a browser softphone that can also ring your cell, voicemail with transcription, call recording with AI summaries, business-hours routing and E911 on every number.

Porting a number you already use in Lake City 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.

A 19-person team is the benchmark here, the rounded average establishment size in the Florence, SC metro area. Billed per seat at month-to-month list prices (checked September 28, 2026), RingCentral RingEX Core costs $570.00 a month and Ooma Office Pro $474.05. Callata comes to $379.00 a month for 19 users ($99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user), below both.