Get a local business phone number in Lexington, VA

Area codes in Lexington

Lexington city is a Census place in Lexington city, Virginia, with an estimated 7,802 residents in 2024. All 11 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 540. 540 is part of an overlay with 826, so a new local number in Lexington may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Lexington 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.

Phone carriers in Lexington

7 carriers hold the 11 exchanges assigned to Lexington's rate center. Metropcs, INC. has the most, with 3. 9 of them are pooled codes, which the holder shares with other carriers in blocks of 1,000 numbers. A business number in Lexington can come from any of these blocks; once it is yours, porting lets it move between providers.

Exchanges (NPA-NXX) assigned in Lexington

A prefix (NXX) is the three digits after the area code. Numbers starting with these prefixes are rated as local to Lexington. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. None were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Lexington's exchanges were assigned

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

How local numbers work in Lexington

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

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

The local business market

Lexington is outside any Census metro or micropolitan area, so the figures below are statewide. County Business Patterns counted 210,842 business establishments in Virginia in 2023, employing 3,581,650 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are professional, scientific, and technical services (32,231), retail trade (25,872), and health care and social assistance (23,812).

Business phone service in Lexington

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 Lexington, 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 17-person team is the benchmark here, the rounded average establishment size in Virginia. Billed per seat at month-to-month list prices (checked September 28, 2026), RingCentral RingEX Core costs $510.00 a month and Ooma Office Pro $424.15. On Callata the same 17 people cost $339.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.