Get a local business phone number in Port Lavaca, TX

What area code is Port Lavaca, TX?

With 11,299 residents in the Census 2024 estimate, Port Lavaca sits in Calhoun County, Texas. All 11 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 361. Port Lavaca 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.

Who holds Port Lavaca phone exchanges

6 carriers hold the 11 exchanges assigned to Port Lavaca's rate center. Frontier Southwest INC d/b/a Frontier Comm of Texas has the most, with 4. 9 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.

Local prefixes for Port Lavaca

These are the central office codes NANPA records for Port Lavaca. A caller seeing one of them recognizes a local number. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 3 of the 11 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Port Lavaca's exchanges were assigned

Assignment dates show when each block of Port Lavaca numbers was added to the local supply.

Rate centers and local calling in Port Lavaca

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

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

Who does business near Port Lavaca

Port Lavaca is part of the Port Lavaca, TX micropolitan area, home to 19,942 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 451 business establishments in the Port Lavaca, TX micropolitan area in 2023, employing 9,399 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are accommodation and food services (75), retail trade (67), and other services (except public administration) (50).

Setting up a Port Lavaca business line

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