Get a local business phone number in Bellingham, MA

Area codes in Bellingham

With 17,998 residents in the Census 2024 estimate, Bellingham sits in Norfolk County, Massachusetts. NANPA lists 7 exchanges for its rate center across 2 area codes; 774 has the most (4, 57%). 774 is part of an overlay with 508, so a new local number in Bellingham may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Bellingham is in the Eastern time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 774 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Who holds Bellingham phone exchanges

6 carriers hold the 7 exchanges assigned to Bellingham's rate center. Paetec Itel, LLC has the most, with 2. 6 of them are pooled codes, which the holder shares with other carriers in blocks of 1,000 numbers. The table counts codes by the operating company NANPA assigned them to, not by who serves each number today.

Local prefixes for Bellingham

These are the central office codes NANPA records for Bellingham. A caller seeing one of them recognizes a local number. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 1 of the 7 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Bellingham's exchanges were assigned

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

Rate centers and local calling in Bellingham

NANPA ties every exchange to a rate center. For Bellingham that is BELLINGHAM, so a number from one of these exchanges reads as local to people in and around Bellingham.

Keeping an existing Bellingham number costs nothing on Callata, because porting is free; a new number depends on what carriers have open in 774 when you pick it.

Who does business near Bellingham

Bellingham is part of the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area, home to 5.0 million people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 133,807 business establishments in the Boston, MA-NH metro area in 2023, employing 2,681,704 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are professional, scientific, and technical services (17,803), retail trade (15,568), and health care and social assistance (15,127).

A Bellingham number on Callata

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 Bellingham, 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 Boston, MA-NH metro area, 20 users on RingCentral RingEX Core come to $600.00 a month and on Ooma Office Pro $499.00, at month-to-month list prices checked September 28, 2026. On Callata the same 20 people cost $399.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.