Get a local business phone number in Clinton, MA

What area code is Clinton, MA?

With 15,740 residents in the Census 2024 estimate, Clinton sits in Worcester County, Massachusetts. NANPA lists 8 exchanges for its rate center across 2 area codes; 978 has the most (7, 88%). 978 is part of an overlay with 351, so a new local number in Clinton may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Clinton is in the Eastern time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 978 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Who holds Clinton phone exchanges

6 carriers hold the 8 exchanges assigned to Clinton's rate center. Verizon New England INC. has the most, with 2. 8 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 Clinton

These are the central office codes NANPA records for Clinton. 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 8 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Clinton's exchanges were assigned

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

Rate centers and local calling in Clinton

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

New local numbers are drawn from carrier inventory, so the exact 978 numbers available change over time; porting an existing number is free.

Who does business near Clinton

Clinton 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).

Setting up a Clinton business line

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