Get a local business phone number in Marion, VA

What area code is Marion, VA?

With 5,602 residents in the Census 2024 estimate, Marion sits in Smyth County, Virginia. All 11 exchanges NANPA lists for its rate center are in area code 276. Marion is in the Eastern time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 276 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Who holds Marion phone exchanges

7 carriers hold the 11 exchanges assigned to Marion's rate center. Suncom d/b/a T-mobile USA 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 Marion can come from any of these blocks; once it is yours, porting lets it move between providers.

Local prefixes for Marion

A prefix (NXX) is the three digits after the area code. Numbers starting with these prefixes are rated as local to Marion. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 1 of the 11 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Marion's exchanges were assigned

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

What makes a number local to Marion

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

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

Businesses around Marion

Marion 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).

A Marion number on Callata

For $99 a month, Callata puts a team of up to 5 on one plan ($20 for each person after that): up to 3 local numbers, unlimited inbound calls, a pooled allowance of 1,500 outbound US and Canada minutes per user, browser and cell calling, voicemail transcription with urgency triage, recorded calls with AI summaries and business-hours routing, with E911 on every number.

If you already have a number in Marion, 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.