Get a local business phone number in Red Oak, TX

What area code is Red Oak, TX?

Red Oak city is a Census place in Ellis County, Texas, with an estimated 19,365 residents in 2024. NANPA lists 17 exchanges for its rate center across 4 area codes; 469 has the most (9, 53%). 469 is part of an overlay with 214, 945, and 972, so a new local number in Red Oak may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Red Oak is in the Central time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 469 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Phone carriers in Red Oak

7 carriers hold the 17 exchanges assigned to Red Oak's rate center. New Cingular Wireless PCS, LLC - Il has the most, with 4. 14 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.

Local prefixes for Red Oak

A prefix (NXX) is the three digits after the area code. Numbers starting with these prefixes are rated as local to Red Oak. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2002. 4 of the 17 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Red Oak's exchanges were assigned

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

Rate centers and local calling in Red Oak

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

New local numbers are drawn from carrier inventory, so the exact 469 numbers available change over time; porting an existing number is free.

Businesses around Red Oak

Red Oak 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).

Setting up a Red Oak business line

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 Red Oak 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.