Get a local business phone number in Melrose, MA

What area code is Melrose, MA?

With 29,938 residents in the Census 2024 estimate, Melrose sits in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. NANPA lists 13 exchanges for its rate center across 3 area codes; 781 has the most (11, 85%). 781 is part of an overlay with 339, so a new local number in Melrose may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Melrose 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 Melrose phone exchanges

10 carriers hold the 13 exchanges assigned to Melrose's rate center. Verizon New England INC. has the most, with 3. 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 Melrose

These are the central office codes NANPA records for Melrose. A caller seeing one of them recognizes a local number. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. None were assigned in 2020 or later.

What makes a number local to Melrose

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

New local numbers are drawn from carrier inventory, so the exact 781 numbers available change over time; porting an existing number is free.

Businesses around Melrose

Melrose 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).

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