Get a local business phone number in Nantucket, MA

What area code is Nantucket, MA?

Nantucket town is a Census town in Nantucket County, Massachusetts, with an estimated 14,670 residents in 2024. NANPA lists 14 exchanges for its rate center across 2 area codes; 508 has the most (9, 64%). 508 is part of an overlay with 774, so a new local number in Nantucket may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Nantucket 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.

Who holds Nantucket phone exchanges

10 carriers hold the 14 exchanges assigned to Nantucket's rate center. Verizon New England INC. has the most, with 3. 11 of them are pooled codes, which the holder shares with other carriers in blocks of 1,000 numbers. A business number in Nantucket can come from any of these blocks; once it is yours, porting lets it move between providers.

Local prefixes for Nantucket

Each prefix below is a block of up to 10,000 numbers that NANPA assigned to Nantucket's rate center (NANTUCKET). The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 2 of the 14 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Nantucket's exchanges were assigned

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

Rate centers and local calling in Nantucket

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

New local numbers are drawn from carrier inventory, so the exact 508 numbers available change over time; porting an existing number is free.

Who does business near Nantucket

Nantucket is part of the Nantucket, MA micropolitan area, home to 14,670 people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 1,317 business establishments in the Nantucket, MA micropolitan area in 2023, employing 5,626 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are construction (453), administrative and support and waste management and remediation services (164), and retail trade (156).

Setting up a Nantucket business line

Callata is a business phone system priced at $99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user. Callata Office includes up to 3 local business numbers, unlimited inbound calling, 1,500 pooled outbound US and Canada minutes per user each month, a browser softphone that can also ring your cell, voicemail with transcription, call recording with AI summaries, business-hours routing and E911 on every number.

If you already have a number in Nantucket, 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.

Optional AI agents (receptionist, sales, support or scheduler) can answer calls after hours or when nobody picks up, take messages, text, email and transfer to your team. They are billed from prepaid AI minutes at $0.25 per minute, identify themselves as AI, and may only place outbound calls to people who consented, between 8am and 9pm.

Per-seat phone plans multiply by headcount. For the rounded average establishment size in the Nantucket, MA micropolitan area, 4 users on RingCentral RingEX Core come to $120.00 a month and on Ooma Office Pro $99.80, at month-to-month list prices checked September 28, 2026. On Callata the same 4 people cost $99.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.