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Area code 478
Area code 478 is centred on Macon, Georgia. We hold 3,096 allocated blocks for it across 50 rate centres, split 41% mobile, 40% landline and 19% VoIP.
The towns inside area code 478
Area code 478 is not a city code. It covers 50 separate rate centres — billing areas, each its own local calling zone. The largest of them are named in the table below.
That matters twice over. A call between two 478 numbers is not necessarily a local call, because they can sit in different rate centres. And a code this wide narrows a subscriber to a region rather than a town.
Georgia is split across 10 area codes — 470, 678, 912, 706, 229, 478 and others. By allocated blocks 478 is the 9th largest of them, holding 6% of the Georgia total.
Where 478 numbers are concentrated
NANPA truncates rate-centre names to ten characters and drops the spaces, which is why Milledgevl and Sandersvl are shortened. Names are reproduced as recorded rather than expanded — the abbreviation is the key the block data is filed under.
| Rate centre | Blocks | Share of 478 |
|---|---|---|
| Macon | 1,111 | 36% |
| Warnerrbns | 400 | 13% |
| Dublin | 159 | 5% |
| Milledgevl | 152 | 5% |
| Swainsboro | 85 | 3% |
| Sandersvl | 79 | 3% |
| Cochran | 73 | 2% |
| Forsyth | 68 | 2% |
| Perry | 68 | 2% |
| Eastman | 63 | 2% |
| Wadley | 60 | 2% |
| Louisville | 47 | 2% |
| Fortvalley | 45 | 1% |
| Gray | 45 | 1% |
| Millen | 44 | 1% |
| Centervl | 39 | 1% |
| Marshallvl | 38 | 1% |
| Sardis | 37 | 1% |
| Wrightsvl | 35 | 1% |
| Hawkinsvl | 34 | 1% |
| Gordon | 30 | 1% |
| Montezuma | 30 | 1% |
| Lksinclair | 27 | 1% |
| Danville | 26 | 1% |
26 further rate centres in 478 hold fewer blocks than these.
Carriers holding the most 478 blocks
Onvoy626 blocks
AT&T Wireless535 blocks
Verizon Wireless210 blocks
Teleport Communications America, Llc186 blocks
Bandwidth181 blocks
Powertel Atlanta Licenses, Inc.157 blocks
The largest holder, Onvoy, has 20% of the code.
These are original allocations. A number keeps its digits and its block when its subscriber moves network, so a ported 478 number still reports the carrier it started with. Closing that gap needs a live query against the routing database. How line type is derived.
Check a single 478 number, or run a whole list through the free cleaner — neither uploads anything.
Common questions
Where is area code 478?
Area code 478 is centred on Macon, Georgia and spans 50 rate centres, so it covers a region rather than a town.
Is a 478 number a mobile or a landline?
It can be either, and the digits do not say which. North American mobile and landline numbers share the same ranges, so the answer comes from the carrier holding the block. In 478 the split runs 41% mobile, 40% landline and 19% VoIP, so mobile is the most likely single answer.
Which carriers hold 478 numbers?
The largest holders are Onvoy, AT&T Wireless, Verizon Wireless. That is the carrier the block was allocated to, which is not necessarily the network a given number sits on today.
How many 478 numbers are there?
The code holds 3,096 allocated blocks in our copy of the numbering plan. A block is 1,000 or 10,000 consecutive numbers depending on how deeply it has been pooled, so 478 covers on the order of 3,096,000 possible numbers — most of which have never been issued to anyone.