Get a local business phone number in Lawrence, MA

What area code is Lawrence, MA?

With 89,332 residents in the Census 2024 estimate, Lawrence sits in Essex County, Massachusetts. NANPA lists 90 exchanges for its rate center across 3 area codes; 978 has the most (81, 90%). 978 is part of an overlay with 351, so a new local number in Lawrence may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Lawrence 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 Lawrence phone exchanges

14 carriers hold the 90 exchanges assigned to Lawrence's rate center. Verizon New England INC. has the most, with 24. 54 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.

Local prefixes for Lawrence

These are the central office codes NANPA records for Lawrence. A caller seeing one of them recognizes a local number. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 2 of the 90 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Lawrence's exchanges were assigned

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

Rate centers and local calling in Lawrence

NANPA ties every exchange to a rate center. For Lawrence that is LAWRENCE, so a number from one of these exchanges reads as local to people in and around Lawrence.

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

Who does business near Lawrence

Lawrence 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 Lawrence business line

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