Get a local business phone number in Dallas, TX

What area code is Dallas, TX?

Dallas city is a Census place in Dallas County, Texas, with an estimated 1,326,087 residents in 2024. NANPA lists 789 exchanges for its rate center across 4 area codes; 214 has the most (363, 46%). 214 is part of an overlay with 469, 945, and 972, so a new local number in Dallas may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Dallas is in the Central time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 214 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Who holds Dallas phone exchanges

60 carriers hold the 789 exchanges assigned to Dallas's rate center. Southwestern Bell has the most, with 479. 500 of them are pooled codes, which the holder shares with other carriers in blocks of 1,000 numbers. A business number in Dallas can come from any of these blocks; once it is yours, porting lets it move between providers.

Dallas phone prefixes

These are the central office codes NANPA records for Dallas. A caller seeing one of them recognizes a local number. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 56 of the 789 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Dallas's exchanges were assigned

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

Rate centers and local calling in Dallas

Phone numbers are tied to a rate center, the local calling area used to decide whether a call is local or toll. Dallas's numbers are rated to the DALLAS rate center in NANPA's records. A business number from one of the prefixes above shows up on customers' phones as a Dallas number.

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

Businesses around Dallas

Dallas is part of the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro area, home to 8.3 million people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 189,739 business establishments in the Dallas, TX metro area in 2023, employing 3,594,749 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are professional, scientific, and technical services (27,552), health care and social assistance (23,741), and retail trade (21,680).

A Dallas number on Callata

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 Dallas 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.

Per-seat phone plans multiply by headcount. For the rounded average establishment size in the Dallas, TX metro area, 19 users on RingCentral RingEX Core come to $570.00 a month and on Ooma Office Pro $474.05, at month-to-month list prices checked September 28, 2026. Callata comes to $379.00 a month for 19 users ($99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user), below both.