Get a local business phone number in Fredericksburg, VA

What area code is Fredericksburg, VA?

Fredericksburg city is a Census place in Fredericksburg city, Virginia, with an estimated 29,992 residents in 2024. NANPA lists 72 exchanges for its rate center across 2 area codes; 540 has the most (63, 88%). 540 is part of an overlay with 826, so a new local number in Fredericksburg may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Fredericksburg 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 Fredericksburg phone exchanges

16 carriers hold the 72 exchanges assigned to Fredericksburg's rate center. New Cingular Wireless PCS, LLC - DC has the most, with 21. 58 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 Fredericksburg

These are the central office codes NANPA records for Fredericksburg. A caller seeing one of them recognizes a local number. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 12 of the 72 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Fredericksburg's exchanges were assigned

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

What makes a number local to Fredericksburg

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

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

Businesses around Fredericksburg

Fredericksburg is part of the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV metro area, home to 6.4 million people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 159,002 business establishments in the Washington, DC-VA-MD-WV metro area in 2023, employing 2,863,486 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are professional, scientific, and technical services (34,327), health care and social assistance (19,078), and other services (except public administration) (18,064).

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If you already have a number in Fredericksburg, 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.

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Per-seat phone plans multiply by headcount. For the rounded average establishment size in the Washington, DC-VA-MD-WV 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.