Get a local business phone number in Brookline, MA

What area code is Brookline, MA?

Brookline town is a Census town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, with an estimated 63,925 residents in 2024. NANPA lists 65 exchanges for its rate center across 2 area codes; 617 has the most (38, 58%). 617 is part of an overlay with 857, so a new local number in Brookline may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Brookline is in the Eastern time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 617 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Who holds Brookline phone exchanges

14 carriers hold the 65 exchanges assigned to Brookline's rate center. Verizon New England INC. has the most, with 24. 46 of them are pooled codes, which the holder shares with other carriers in blocks of 1,000 numbers. A business number in Brookline can come from any of these blocks; once it is yours, porting lets it move between providers.

Local prefixes for Brookline

Each prefix below is a block of up to 10,000 numbers that NANPA assigned to Brookline's rate center (BROOKLINE). The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 13 of the 65 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Brookline's exchanges were assigned

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

Rate centers and local calling in Brookline

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

New local numbers are drawn from carrier inventory, so the exact 617 numbers available change over time; porting an existing number is free.

Who does business near Brookline

Brookline 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).

Setting up a Brookline business line

Callata is a business phone system priced at $99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user. Callata Office includes up to 3 local business numbers, unlimited inbound calling, 1,500 pooled outbound US and Canada minutes per user each month, a browser softphone that can also ring your cell, voicemail with transcription, call recording with AI summaries, business-hours routing and E911 on every number.

If you already have a number in Brookline, 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.

The comparison below uses 20 users, the rounded average establishment size in the Boston, MA-NH metro area. At list prices checked September 28, 2026, that is $499.00 a month on Ooma Office Pro and $600.00 on RingCentral RingEX Core. On Callata the same 20 people cost $399.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.