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Area code 501
Area code 501 is centred on Little Rock, Arkansas. We hold 4,950 allocated blocks for it across 61 rate centres, split 43% mobile, 43% landline and 15% VoIP.
The towns inside area code 501
Area code 501 is not a city code. It covers 61 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 501 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.
Arkansas is split across 4 area codes — 870, 501, 479, 327. By allocated blocks 501 is the second largest of them, holding 32% of the Arkansas total.
Where 501 numbers are concentrated
NANPA truncates rate-centre names to ten characters and drops the spaces, which is why Searcy and Syvnhlshwd 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 501 |
|---|---|---|
| Littlerock | 1,552 | 31% |
| Hotsprings | 315 | 6% |
| Conway | 294 | 6% |
| Benton | 276 | 6% |
| Searcy | 175 | 4% |
| Cabot | 147 | 3% |
| Malvern | 120 | 2% |
| Syvnhlshwd | 115 | 2% |
| Morrilton | 103 | 2% |
| Lonoke | 94 | 2% |
| Jacksonvl | 91 | 2% |
| Palarm | 89 | 2% |
| Beebe | 85 | 2% |
| Heber Spg | 83 | 2% |
| Jessievl | 83 | 2% |
| Bryantcgvl | 80 | 2% |
| Springlake | 71 | 1% |
| Greenbrier | 66 | 1% |
| Ferndale | 65 | 1% |
| Bald Knob | 56 | 1% |
| Pinnacle | 51 | 1% |
| Jonesmills | 42 | 1% |
| Greersfrry | 39 | 1% |
| Judsonia | 38 | 1% |
37 further rate centres in 501 hold fewer blocks than these.
Carriers holding the most 501 blocks
AT&T Wireless815 blocks
Southwestern Bell714 blocks
Onvoy651 blocks
Verizon Wireless432 blocks
Bandwidth316 blocks
T-Mobile USA, Inc.267 blocks
The largest holder, AT&T Wireless, has 16% of the code.
These are original allocations. A number keeps its digits and its block when its subscriber moves network, so a ported 501 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 501 number, or run a whole list through the free cleaner — neither uploads anything.
Common questions
Where is area code 501?
Area code 501 is centred on Little Rock, Arkansas and spans 61 rate centres, so it covers a region rather than a town.
Is a 501 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 501 the split runs 43% mobile, 43% landline and 15% VoIP, so mobile is the most likely single answer.
Which carriers hold 501 numbers?
The largest holders are AT&T Wireless, Southwestern Bell, Onvoy. That is the carrier the block was allocated to, which is not necessarily the network a given number sits on today.
How many 501 numbers are there?
The code holds 4,950 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 501 covers on the order of 4,950,000 possible numbers — most of which have never been issued to anyone.