Get a local business phone number in Charlton, MA

Charlton area codes

Charlton town is a Census town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, with an estimated 13,606 residents in 2024. NANPA lists 7 exchanges for its rate center across 2 area codes; 508 has the most (5, 71%). 508 is part of an overlay with 774, so a new local number in Charlton may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Charlton 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.

Charlton exchanges by carrier

5 carriers hold the 7 exchanges assigned to Charlton'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. 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.

Charlton phone prefixes

These are the central office codes NANPA records for Charlton. A caller seeing one of them recognizes a local number. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2021. 1 of the 7 were assigned in 2020 or later.

What makes a number local to Charlton

What a caller sees as "local" is the area code plus prefix. In Charlton, those come from the CHARLTON rate center, as recorded by NANPA.

Keeping an existing Charlton number costs nothing on Callata, because porting is free; a new number depends on what carriers have open in 508 when you pick it.

Businesses around Charlton

Charlton is part of the Worcester, MA metro area, home to 881,000 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 19,181 business establishments in the Worcester, MA metro area in 2023, employing 319,255 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are construction (2,610), health care and social assistance (2,418), and retail trade (2,405).

A Charlton 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 Charlton, 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 Worcester, MA metro area, 17 users on RingCentral RingEX Core come to $510.00 a month and on Ooma Office Pro $424.15, at month-to-month list prices checked September 28, 2026. On Callata the same 17 people cost $339.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.