Get a local business phone number in Victoria, TX

What area code is Victoria, TX?

Victoria city is a Census place in Victoria County, Texas, with an estimated 66,020 residents in 2024. All 40 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 361. Victoria 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 Victoria

15 carriers hold the 40 exchanges assigned to Victoria's rate center. Southwestern Bell has the most, with 12. 25 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 Victoria

A prefix (NXX) is the three digits after the area code. Numbers starting with these prefixes are rated as local to Victoria. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 3 of the 40 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Victoria's exchanges were assigned

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

Rate centers and local calling in Victoria

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

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

Businesses around Victoria

Victoria is part of the Victoria, TX metro area, home to 99,170 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 2,379 business establishments in the Victoria, TX metro area in 2023, employing 32,184 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (357), health care and social assistance (298), and accommodation and food services (232).

Setting up a Victoria business line

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 Victoria 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.

A 14-person team is the benchmark here, the rounded average establishment size in the Victoria, TX metro area. Billed per seat at month-to-month list prices (checked September 28, 2026), RingCentral RingEX Core costs $420.00 a month and Ooma Office Pro $349.30. Callata comes to $279.00 a month for 14 users ($99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user), below both.