Get a local business phone number in Alice, TX

Alice area codes

Alice city is a Census place in Jim Wells County, Texas, with an estimated 17,595 residents in 2024. All 24 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 361. Alice is in the Central time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 361 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Alice exchanges by carrier

12 carriers hold the 24 exchanges assigned to Alice's rate center. Stpcs Joint Venture, LLC has the most, with 5. 19 of them are pooled codes, which the holder shares with other carriers in blocks of 1,000 numbers. A business number in Alice can come from any of these blocks; once it is yours, porting lets it move between providers.

Alice phone prefixes

A prefix (NXX) is the three digits after the area code. Numbers starting with these prefixes are rated as local to Alice. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 6 of the 24 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Alice's exchanges were assigned

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

What makes a number local to Alice

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

Keeping an existing Alice number costs nothing on Callata, because porting is free; a new number depends on what carriers have open in 361 when you pick it.

Businesses around Alice

Alice is part of the Alice, TX micropolitan area, home to 45,626 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 891 business establishments in the Alice, TX micropolitan area in 2023, employing 14,134 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (139), health care and social assistance (133), and accommodation and food services (103).

A Alice number on Callata

For $99 a month, Callata puts a team of up to 5 on one plan ($20 for each person after that): up to 3 local numbers, unlimited inbound calls, a pooled allowance of 1,500 outbound US and Canada minutes per user, browser and cell calling, voicemail transcription with urgency triage, recorded calls with AI summaries and business-hours routing, with E911 on every number.

If you already have a number in Alice, 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 16-person team is the benchmark here, the rounded average establishment size in the Alice, TX micropolitan area. Billed per seat at month-to-month list prices (checked September 28, 2026), RingCentral RingEX Core costs $480.00 a month and Ooma Office Pro $399.20. On Callata the same 16 people cost $319.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.