Get a local business phone number in Clifton, TX

Clifton area codes

Clifton city is a Census place in Bosque County, Texas, with an estimated 3,535 residents in 2024. All 4 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 254. Clifton is in the Central time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 254 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Clifton exchanges by carrier

3 carriers hold the 4 exchanges assigned to Clifton's rate center. Brightspeed of Texas, INC. has the most, with 2. 3 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.

Exchanges (NPA-NXX) assigned in Clifton

Each prefix below is a block of up to 10,000 numbers that NANPA assigned to Clifton's rate center (CLIFTON). The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. None were assigned in 2020 or later.

Rate centers and local calling in Clifton

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

New local numbers are drawn from carrier inventory, so the exact 254 numbers available change over time; porting an existing number is free.

Businesses around Clifton

Clifton is part of the Waco, TX metro area, home to 307,000 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 6,481 business establishments in the Waco, TX metro area in 2023, employing 115,925 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (995), health care and social assistance (742), and other services (except public administration) (727).

A Clifton 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.

Porting a number you already use in Clifton 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.

The comparison below uses 18 users, the rounded average establishment size in the Waco, TX metro area. At list prices checked September 28, 2026, that is $449.10 a month on Ooma Office Pro and $540.00 on RingCentral RingEX Core. Callata comes to $359.00 a month for 18 users ($99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user), below both.