Get a local business phone number in Medfield, MA

What area code is Medfield, MA?

Medfield, in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, had a Census-estimated population of 13,334 in July 2024. NANPA lists 6 exchanges for its rate center across 2 area codes; 508 has the most (3, 50%). 508 is part of an overlay with 774, so a new local number in Medfield may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Medfield is in the Eastern time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 508 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Phone carriers in Medfield

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

A prefix (NXX) is the three digits after the area code. Numbers starting with these prefixes are rated as local to Medfield. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 1 of the 6 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Medfield's exchanges were assigned

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

How local numbers work in Medfield

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

Keeping an existing Medfield number costs nothing on Callata, because porting is free; a new number depends on what carriers have open in 508 when you pick it.

Who does business near Medfield

Medfield 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).

Business phone service in Medfield

For $99 a month, Callata puts a team of up to 5 on one plan ($20 for each person after that): up to 3 local numbers, unlimited inbound calls, a pooled allowance of 1,500 outbound US and Canada minutes per user, browser and cell calling, voicemail transcription with urgency triage, recorded calls with AI summaries and business-hours routing, with E911 on every number.

Porting a number you already use in Medfield 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 Boston, MA-NH metro area, 20 users on RingCentral RingEX Core come to $600.00 a month and on Ooma Office Pro $499.00, at month-to-month list prices checked September 28, 2026. Callata comes to $399.00 a month for 20 users ($99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user), below both.