Pulaski County · Arkansas
Little Rock, AR area codes and time zone
Quick answer
Little Rock is served by area code 501, keeps CST time (GMT-6), and sits in county FIPS 05119.
- Area code
- 501Within 25 miles of the city centre
- Time zone
- CSTAmerica/Chicago
- UTC offset
- GMT-6CDT in summer (UTCGMT-5)
- County FIPS
- 05119Pulaski County
Dialling from and to Little Rock
What this means when you pick up the phone.
Local calls inside 501 may still work on seven digits, but ten-digit dialling is the safe default everywhere in the country now. From abroad, dial +1 then the ten digits.
How Little Rock came to have one area code
Why one city can carry several codes.
Area codes are assigned to geography, then exhausted as demand grows. Little Rock — population about 203k — is covered by code 501, drawn from within 25 miles of the city centre. A single code still has enough numbers for the area, so no overlay has been needed yet. When growth exhausts it, regulators will layer on a new code and local calls will move to ten digits.
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