The 318 area code covers Shreveport, Bossier City, Monroe and more in Louisiana. Provision a local 318 number in minutes.
Area code 318 covers northern Louisiana, an area strongly influenced by Southern Baptist culture, oil and gas, and military presence. Shreveport is the region's largest city, paired across the Red River with Barksdale Air Force Base in Bossier City. The code was split from 504 in 1957.
Across Louisiana, the 318 area code serves roughly 900,000 residents in 4 communities — including Shreveport, Bossier City, Monroe, among others. Numbers in the 318 zone keep Centraltime, so a local line rings during your customers' business hours and shows a familiar LA caller ID on every outbound call.
318 was first introduced in 1957 under the North American Numbering Plan. It remains an active geographic code today.
Want a 318 number of your own? With Ajoxi you can claim one in minutes — no hardware, no contracts — and route calls, SMS, voicemail, and team messaging anywhere on a single UCaaS platform, with Tier-1 routing and clean caller-ID delivery on every line.
Itu 318 area code reaches 4 communities across Louisiana, from Shreveport to Alexandria. A customer in any of them sees a familiar local number when you call, which is the single biggest driver of answer rates — and with Ajoxi you can claim a number in any of these cities, or several at once, and route every call to the same team.
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The 318 area code covers Shreveport, Bossier City, Monroe, Alexandria in Louisiana.
Phone numbers in the 318 area code operate on America/Chicago time.
Yes. The 318 area code was introduced in 1957 and remains an active geographic code today.
Yes. Ajoxi provisions virtual 318 numbers with instant activation, clean caller-ID delivery, Tier-1 routing, and no setup fees — so you can build a local presence in minutes.
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Yes. Every 318 number supports SMS and MMS alongside HD calling, so your team can text customers, run campaigns, and reply to conversations from the same line — all in the browser on any device, with no separate app to install.
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