Get a local business phone number in Gainesville, TX

What area code is Gainesville, TX?

Gainesville city is a Census place in Cooke County, Texas, with an estimated 18,295 residents in 2024. All 14 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 940. Gainesville is in the Central time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 940 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Who holds Gainesville phone exchanges

9 carriers hold the 14 exchanges assigned to Gainesville's rate center. Bandwidth.com CLEC, LLC - TX has the most, with 3. 12 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.

Gainesville phone prefixes

Each prefix below is a block of up to 10,000 numbers that NANPA assigned to Gainesville's rate center (GAINESVL). The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 4 of the 14 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Gainesville's exchanges were assigned

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

Rate centers and local calling in Gainesville

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

Keeping an existing Gainesville number costs nothing on Callata, because porting is free; a new number depends on what carriers have open in 940 when you pick it.

Businesses around Gainesville

Gainesville is part of the Gainesville, TX micropolitan area, home to 44,258 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 1,040 business establishments in the Gainesville, TX micropolitan area in 2023, employing 13,433 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (153), construction (124), and accommodation and food services (103).

A Gainesville 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 Gainesville 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 Gainesville, TX micropolitan area, 13 users on RingCentral RingEX Core come to $390.00 a month and on Ooma Office Pro $324.35, at month-to-month list prices checked September 28, 2026. Callata comes to $259.00 a month for 13 users ($99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user), below both.