Get a local business phone number in Palacios, TX

What area code is Palacios, TX?

Palacios, in Matagorda County, Texas, had a Census-estimated population of 4,373 in July 2024. All 3 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 361. Palacios 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 Palacios

2 carriers hold the 3 exchanges assigned to Palacios's rate center. New Cingular Wireless PCS, LLC - Il has the most, with 2. 2 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.

Exchanges (NPA-NXX) assigned in Palacios

Each prefix below is a block of up to 10,000 numbers that NANPA assigned to Palacios's rate center (PALACIOS). The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2004. None were assigned in 2020 or later.

Rate centers and local calling in Palacios

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

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

Who does business near Palacios

Palacios is part of the Bay City, TX micropolitan area, home to 36,391 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 707 business establishments in the Bay City, TX micropolitan area in 2023, employing 7,870 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (131), other services (except public administration) (97), and accommodation and food services (95).

Setting up a Palacios business line

Callata is a business phone system priced at $99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user. Callata Office includes up to 3 local business numbers, unlimited inbound calling, 1,500 pooled outbound US and Canada minutes per user each month, a browser softphone that can also ring your cell, voicemail with transcription, call recording with AI summaries, business-hours routing and E911 on every number.

If you already have a number in Palacios, 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.

An 11-person team is the benchmark here, the rounded average establishment size in the Bay City, TX micropolitan area. Billed per seat at month-to-month list prices (checked September 28, 2026), RingCentral RingEX Core costs $330.00 a month and Ooma Office Pro $274.45. On Callata the same 11 people cost $219.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.