Get a local business phone number in Malden, MA

What area code is Malden, MA?

With 66,693 residents in the Census 2024 estimate, Malden sits in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. NANPA lists 25 exchanges for its rate center across 3 area codes; 781 has the most (22, 88%). 781 is part of an overlay with 339, so a new local number in Malden may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Malden is in the Eastern time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 781 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Who holds Malden phone exchanges

13 carriers hold the 25 exchanges assigned to Malden's rate center. Verizon New England INC. has the most, with 7. 18 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 Malden

A prefix (NXX) is the three digits after the area code. Numbers starting with these prefixes are rated as local to Malden. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. None were assigned in 2020 or later.

Rate centers and local calling in Malden

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

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

Who does business near Malden

Malden 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 Malden business line

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If you already have a number in Malden, 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.

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