Get a local business phone number in North Myrtle Beach, SC

What area code is North Myrtle Beach, SC?

North Myrtle Beach city is a Census place in Horry County, South Carolina, with an estimated 20,798 residents in 2024. NANPA lists 12 exchanges for its rate center across 2 area codes; 843 has the most (10, 83%). 843 is part of an overlay with 854, so a new local number in North Myrtle Beach may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. North Myrtle Beach 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 North Myrtle Beach

5 carriers hold the 12 exchanges assigned to North Myrtle Beach's rate center. Frontier Communications of the Carolinas INC. - SC has the most, with 5. 8 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.

Local prefixes for North Myrtle Beach

Each prefix below is a block of up to 10,000 numbers that NANPA assigned to North Myrtle Beach's rate center (NMYRTLEBCH). The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2002. 2 of the 12 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When North Myrtle Beach's exchanges were assigned

The table groups North Myrtle Beach's exchanges by the decade NANPA recorded them as assigned.

Rate centers and local calling in North Myrtle Beach

What a caller sees as "local" is the area code plus prefix. In North Myrtle Beach, those come from the NMYRTLEBCH rate center, as recorded by NANPA.

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Businesses around North Myrtle Beach

North Myrtle Beach is part of the Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC metro area, home to 413,000 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 10,550 business establishments in the Myrtle Beach, SC metro area in 2023, employing 123,792 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (1,858), accommodation and food services (1,408), and construction (1,182).

Setting up a North Myrtle Beach business line

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