Get a local business phone number in Quincy, MA

What area code is Quincy, MA?

Quincy city is a Census place in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, with an estimated 103,434 residents in 2024. NANPA lists 58 exchanges for its rate center across 2 area codes; 617 has the most (44, 76%). 617 is part of an overlay with 857, so a new local number in Quincy may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Quincy is in the Eastern time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 617 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Who holds Quincy phone exchanges

16 carriers hold the 58 exchanges assigned to Quincy's rate center. Verizon New England INC. has the most, with 18. 43 of them are pooled codes, which the holder shares with other carriers in blocks of 1,000 numbers. A business number in Quincy can come from any of these blocks; once it is yours, porting lets it move between providers.

Local prefixes for Quincy

A prefix (NXX) is the three digits after the area code. Numbers starting with these prefixes are rated as local to Quincy. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 8 of the 58 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Quincy's exchanges were assigned

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

What makes a number local to Quincy

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

New local numbers are drawn from carrier inventory, so the exact 617 numbers available change over time; porting an existing number is free.

Businesses around Quincy

Quincy 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).

A Quincy number on Callata

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.

If you already have a number in Quincy, 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 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. On Callata the same 20 people cost $399.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.