Get a local business phone number in Salem, VA

Salem area codes

Salem city is a Census place in Salem city, Virginia, with an estimated 25,908 residents in 2024. NANPA lists 13 exchanges for its rate center across 2 area codes; 540 has the most (11, 85%). 540 is part of an overlay with 826, so a new local number in Salem may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Salem 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 Salem

8 carriers hold the 13 exchanges assigned to Salem's rate center. Verizon Virginia, INC. has the most, with 6. 10 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.

Exchanges (NPA-NXX) assigned in Salem

Each prefix below is a block of up to 10,000 numbers that NANPA assigned to Salem's rate center (SALEM). The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 3 of the 13 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Salem's exchanges were assigned

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

What makes a number local to Salem

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

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

Businesses around Salem

Salem is part of the Roanoke, VA metro area, home to 316,000 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 8,368 business establishments in the Roanoke, VA metro area in 2023, employing 143,093 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (1,186), other services (except public administration) (1,024), and health care and social assistance (997).

Business phone service in Salem

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 Salem, 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.

Per-seat phone plans multiply by headcount. For the rounded average establishment size in the Roanoke, VA metro area, 17 users on RingCentral RingEX Core come to $510.00 a month and on Ooma Office Pro $424.15, at month-to-month list prices checked September 28, 2026. On Callata the same 17 people cost $339.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.