Get a local business phone number in Richmond, VT

What area code is Richmond, VT?

Richmond town is a Census town in Chittenden County, Vermont, with an estimated 4,157 residents in 2024. All 3 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 802. Richmond is in the Eastern time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 802 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Who holds Richmond phone exchanges

2 carriers hold the 3 exchanges assigned to Richmond's rate center. Waitsfield-fayston Telephone CO., INC. has the most, with 2. 1 of them are pooled codes, which the holder shares with other carriers in blocks of 1,000 numbers. A business number in Richmond can come from any of these blocks; once it is yours, porting lets it move between providers.

Local prefixes for Richmond

Each prefix below is a block of up to 10,000 numbers that NANPA assigned to Richmond's rate center (RICHMOND). The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2013. None were assigned in 2020 or later.

Rate centers and local calling in Richmond

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

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

Who does business near Richmond

Richmond is part of the Burlington-South Burlington, VT metro area, home to 229,000 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 6,936 business establishments in the Burlington, VT metro area in 2023, employing 102,443 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (917), professional, scientific, and technical services (849), and construction (818).

Setting up a Richmond 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 Richmond, 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.

A 15-person team is the benchmark here, the rounded average establishment size in the Burlington, VT metro area. Billed per seat at month-to-month list prices (checked September 28, 2026), RingCentral RingEX Core costs $450.00 a month and Ooma Office Pro $374.25. On Callata the same 15 people cost $299.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.