Get a local business phone number in Aransas Pass, TX

What area code is Aransas Pass, TX?

With 8,742 residents in the Census 2024 estimate, Aransas Pass sits in San Patricio County, Texas. All 7 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 361. Aransas Pass 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.

Phone carriers in Aransas Pass

6 carriers hold the 7 exchanges assigned to Aransas Pass's rate center. Frontier Southwest INC d/b/a Frontier Comm of Texas has the most, with 2. 5 of them are pooled codes, which the holder shares with other carriers in blocks of 1,000 numbers. A business number in Aransas Pass can come from any of these blocks; once it is yours, porting lets it move between providers.

Local prefixes for Aransas Pass

Each prefix below is a block of up to 10,000 numbers that NANPA assigned to Aransas Pass's rate center (ARANSSPASS). The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 2 of the 7 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Aransas Pass's exchanges were assigned

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

Rate centers and local calling in Aransas Pass

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

New local numbers are drawn from carrier inventory, so the exact 361 numbers available change over time; porting an existing number is free.

Businesses around Aransas Pass

Aransas Pass is part of the Corpus Christi, TX metro area, home to 450,000 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 9,852 business establishments in the Corpus Christi, TX metro area in 2023, employing 156,741 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (1,297), health care and social assistance (1,296), and accommodation and food services (1,272).

Setting up a Aransas Pass business line

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 Aransas Pass 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.

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A 16-person team is the benchmark here, the rounded average establishment size in the Corpus Christi, TX metro 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. Callata comes to $319.00 a month for 16 users ($99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user), below both.