Get a local business phone number in Brockton, MA

What area code is Brockton, MA?

Brockton city is a Census place in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, with an estimated 105,788 residents in 2024. NANPA lists 65 exchanges for its rate center across 2 area codes; 508 has the most (37, 57%). 508 is part of an overlay with 774, so a new local number in Brockton may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Brockton is in the Eastern time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 508 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Who holds Brockton phone exchanges

16 carriers hold the 65 exchanges assigned to Brockton's rate center. Verizon New England INC. has the most, with 13. 48 of them are pooled codes, which the holder shares with other carriers in blocks of 1,000 numbers. Holding a code means NANPA assigned that block of numbers to the carrier for this rate center; individual numbers may since have been ported elsewhere.

Brockton phone prefixes

Each prefix below is a block of up to 10,000 numbers that NANPA assigned to Brockton's rate center (BROCKTON). The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 10 of the 65 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Brockton's exchanges were assigned

The table groups Brockton's exchanges by the decade NANPA recorded them as assigned.

Rate centers and local calling in Brockton

Phone numbers are tied to a rate center, the local calling area used to decide whether a call is local or toll. Brockton's numbers are rated to the BROCKTON rate center in NANPA's records. A business number from one of the prefixes above shows up on customers' phones as a Brockton number.

If your business already has a Brockton number, porting it to Callata is free and keeps it on your cards, listings and vehicles.

Businesses around Brockton

Brockton 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 Brockton number on Callata

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Porting a number you already use in Brockton is free, and business texting is available once the carrier registration (10DLC) is approved; the registration carries a one-time $49 fee. Which specific numbers are open in a given area code depends on carrier inventory at the time you sign up.

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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. Callata comes to $399.00 a month for 20 users ($99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user), below both.