Get a local business phone number in Willis, TX

What area code is Willis, TX?

With 7,222 residents in the Census 2024 estimate, Willis sits in Montgomery County, Texas. All 10 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 936. Willis is in the Central time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 936 are dialed as seven digits and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Willis exchanges by carrier

6 carriers hold the 10 exchanges assigned to Willis's rate center. Frontier Southwest INC d/b/a Frontier Comm of Texas has the most, with 3. 8 of them are pooled codes, which the holder shares with other carriers in blocks of 1,000 numbers. A business number in Willis can come from any of these blocks; once it is yours, porting lets it move between providers.

Willis phone prefixes

A prefix (NXX) is the three digits after the area code. Numbers starting with these prefixes are rated as local to Willis. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2002. 2 of the 10 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Willis's exchanges were assigned

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

Rate centers and local calling in Willis

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

New local numbers are drawn from carrier inventory, so the exact 936 numbers available change over time; porting an existing number is free.

Who does business near Willis

Willis is part of the Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX metro area, home to 7.8 million people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 162,055 business establishments in the Houston, TX metro area in 2023, employing 2,863,143 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are professional, scientific, and technical services (22,233), retail trade (20,204), and health care and social assistance (20,054).

A Willis number on Callata

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.

If you already have a number in Willis, 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.

Per-seat phone plans multiply by headcount. For the rounded average establishment size in the Houston, TX metro area, 18 users on RingCentral RingEX Core come to $540.00 a month and on Ooma Office Pro $449.10, at month-to-month list prices checked September 28, 2026. On Callata the same 18 people cost $359.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.