Get a local business phone number in Franklin, TN

What area code is Franklin, TN?

Franklin city is a Census place in Williamson County, Tennessee, with an estimated 89,142 residents in 2024. NANPA lists 49 exchanges for its rate center across 2 area codes; 615 has the most (36, 73%). 615 is part of an overlay with 629, so a new local number in Franklin may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Franklin is in the Central time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 615 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Who holds Franklin phone exchanges

15 carriers hold the 49 exchanges assigned to Franklin's rate center. Bellsouth Telecomm INC d/b/a South Central Bell Tel has the most, with 11. 38 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.

Local prefixes for Franklin

These are the central office codes NANPA records for Franklin. A caller seeing one of them recognizes a local number. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 13 of the 49 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Franklin's exchanges were assigned

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

What makes a number local to Franklin

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

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

Businesses around Franklin

Franklin is part of the Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN metro area, home to 2.2 million people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 50,910 business establishments in the Nashville, TN metro area in 2023, employing 1,012,689 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (6,634), health care and social assistance (5,732), and professional, scientific, and technical services (5,218).

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