Get a local business phone number in Lancaster, SC

What area code is Lancaster, SC?

Lancaster city is a Census place in Lancaster County, South Carolina, with an estimated 9,396 residents in 2024. NANPA lists 18 exchanges for its rate center across 2 area codes; 803 has the most (16, 89%). 803 is part of an overlay with 839, so a new local number in Lancaster may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Lancaster is in the Eastern time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 803 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Who holds Lancaster phone exchanges

7 carriers hold the 18 exchanges assigned to Lancaster's rate center. Lancaster Tel. CO. has the most, with 6. 12 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.

Lancaster phone prefixes

Each prefix below is a block of up to 10,000 numbers that NANPA assigned to Lancaster's rate center (LANCASTER). The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 2 of the 18 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Lancaster's exchanges were assigned

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

Rate centers and local calling in Lancaster

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

Keeping an existing Lancaster number costs nothing on Callata, because porting is free; a new number depends on what carriers have open in 803 when you pick it.

Businesses around Lancaster

Lancaster is part of the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC metro area, home to 2.9 million people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 71,411 business establishments in the Charlotte, NC-SC metro area in 2023, employing 1,238,884 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are professional, scientific, and technical services (8,569), retail trade (8,197), and construction (7,500).

A Lancaster 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.

Porting a number you already use in Lancaster 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 17-person team is the benchmark here, the rounded average establishment size in the Charlotte, NC-SC metro area. 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. Callata comes to $339.00 a month for 17 users ($99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user), below both.