Get a local business phone number in Rochester, MA

What area code is Rochester, MA?

Rochester town is a Census town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, with an estimated 5,936 residents in 2024. NANPA lists 18 exchanges for its rate center across 2 area codes; 774 has the most (10, 56%). 774 is part of an overlay with 508, so a new local number in Rochester may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Rochester is in the Eastern time zone.

According to NANPA's dialing-plan data, local calls within 774 are dialed as ten digits (area code plus number) and toll calls as 1 plus ten digits.

Rochester exchanges by carrier

7 carriers hold the 18 exchanges assigned to Rochester's rate center. Cellco Partnership d/b/a Verizon Wireless - Ma has the most, with 5. 15 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.

Rochester phone prefixes

These are the central office codes NANPA records for Rochester. A caller seeing one of them recognizes a local number. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2002. 3 of the 18 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Rochester's exchanges were assigned

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

What makes a number local to Rochester

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

Keeping an existing Rochester number costs nothing on Callata, because porting is free; a new number depends on what carriers have open in 774 when you pick it.

Businesses around Rochester

Rochester 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 Rochester

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 Rochester, 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.

A 20-person team is the benchmark here, the rounded average establishment size in the Boston, MA-NH metro area. Billed per seat at month-to-month list prices (checked September 28, 2026), RingCentral RingEX Core costs $600.00 a month and Ooma Office Pro $499.00. On Callata the same 20 people cost $399.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.