Get a local business phone number in Leicester, MA

Area codes in Leicester

With 11,224 residents in the Census 2024 estimate, Leicester sits in Worcester County, Massachusetts. NANPA lists 5 exchanges for its rate center across 2 area codes; 774 has the most (3, 60%). 774 is part of an overlay with 508, so a new local number in Leicester may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Leicester is in the Eastern time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 774 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Leicester exchanges by carrier

5 carriers hold the 5 exchanges assigned to Leicester's rate center. Level 3 Communications, LLC - Ma has the most, with 1. 5 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.

Exchanges (NPA-NXX) assigned in Leicester

A prefix (NXX) is the three digits after the area code. Numbers starting with these prefixes are rated as local to Leicester. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 1 of the 5 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Leicester's exchanges were assigned

The table groups Leicester's exchanges by the decade NANPA recorded them as assigned.

How local numbers work in Leicester

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

Keeping an existing Leicester number costs nothing on Callata, because porting is free; a new number depends on what carriers have open in 774 when you pick it.

Who does business near Leicester

Leicester 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).

Business phone service in Leicester

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.

Porting a number you already use in Leicester is free, and business texting is available once the carrier registration (10DLC) is approved; the registration carries a one-time $49 fee. Which specific numbers are open in a given area code depends on carrier inventory at the time you sign up.

AI agents are optional: an AI receptionist or scheduler can pick up when the team is busy or closed, take a message, send a text or email, or transfer the call. They draw on prepaid AI minutes ($0.25/minute), disclose that they are AI, and outbound AI calls require prior consent and are limited to 8am–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. Callata comes to $339.00 a month for 17 users ($99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user), below both.