Get a local business phone number in Blacksburg, VA

What area code is Blacksburg, VA?

With 45,452 residents in the Census 2024 estimate, Blacksburg sits in Montgomery County, Virginia. NANPA lists 23 exchanges for its rate center across 2 area codes; 540 has the most (21, 91%). 540 is part of an overlay with 826, so a new local number in Blacksburg may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Blacksburg is in the Eastern time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 540 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Who holds Blacksburg phone exchanges

9 carriers hold the 23 exchanges assigned to Blacksburg's rate center. Verizon Virginia, INC. has the most, with 7. 19 of them are pooled codes, which the holder shares with other carriers in blocks of 1,000 numbers. A business number in Blacksburg can come from any of these blocks; once it is yours, porting lets it move between providers.

Local prefixes for Blacksburg

Each prefix below is a block of up to 10,000 numbers that NANPA assigned to Blacksburg's rate center (BLACKSBURG). The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2009. 4 of the 23 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Blacksburg's exchanges were assigned

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

Rate centers and local calling in Blacksburg

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

New local numbers are drawn from carrier inventory, so the exact 540 numbers available change over time; porting an existing number is free.

Who does business near Blacksburg

Blacksburg is part of the Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA metro area, home to 182,000 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 3,584 business establishments in the Blacksburg, VA metro area in 2023, employing 56,178 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (560), other services (except public administration) (461), and health care and social assistance (423).

Setting up a Blacksburg 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.

If you already have a number in Blacksburg, 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.

The comparison below uses 16 users, the rounded average establishment size in the Blacksburg, VA metro area. At list prices checked September 28, 2026, that is $399.20 a month on Ooma Office Pro and $480.00 on RingCentral RingEX Core. On Callata the same 16 people cost $319.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.