Get a local business phone number in Ipswich, MA

What area code is Ipswich, MA?

With 14,110 residents in the Census 2024 estimate, Ipswich sits in Essex County, Massachusetts. NANPA lists 11 exchanges for its rate center across 2 area codes; 978 has the most (8, 73%). 978 is part of an overlay with 351, so a new local number in Ipswich may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Ipswich 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 Ipswich phone exchanges

9 carriers hold the 11 exchanges assigned to Ipswich's rate center. Metropcs, INC. has the most, with 2. 9 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 Ipswich

A prefix (NXX) is the three digits after the area code. Numbers starting with these prefixes are rated as local to Ipswich. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2002. 2 of the 11 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Ipswich's exchanges were assigned

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

Rate centers and local calling in Ipswich

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

Keeping an existing Ipswich number costs nothing on Callata, because porting is free; a new number depends on what carriers have open in 978 when you pick it.

Who does business near Ipswich

Ipswich 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 Ipswich 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 Ipswich, 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.

A 20-person team is the benchmark here, the rounded average establishment size in the Boston, MA-NH metro area. Billed per seat at month-to-month list prices (checked September 28, 2026), RingCentral RingEX Core costs $600.00 a month and Ooma Office Pro $499.00. On Callata the same 20 people cost $399.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.