Get a local business phone number in Taunton, MA

What area code is Taunton, MA?

With 61,936 residents in the Census 2024 estimate, Taunton sits in Bristol County, Massachusetts. NANPA lists 30 exchanges for its rate center across 2 area codes; 508 has the most (19, 63%). 508 is part of an overlay with 774, so a new local number in Taunton may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Taunton 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 Taunton phone exchanges

15 carriers hold the 30 exchanges assigned to Taunton's rate center. Verizon New England INC. has the most, with 9. 22 of them are pooled codes, which the holder shares with other carriers in blocks of 1,000 numbers. A business number in Taunton can come from any of these blocks; once it is yours, porting lets it move between providers.

Local prefixes for Taunton

A prefix (NXX) is the three digits after the area code. Numbers starting with these prefixes are rated as local to Taunton. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2001. 3 of the 30 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Taunton's exchanges were assigned

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

Rate centers and local calling in Taunton

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

Taunton is part of the Providence-Warwick, RI-MA metro area, home to 1.7 million people in 2024. County Business Patterns counted 42,731 business establishments in the Providence, RI-MA metro area in 2023, employing 645,576 people. The largest sectors by establishment count are retail trade (5,533), construction (5,278), and health care and social assistance (4,723).

Setting up a Taunton 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 Taunton, 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.

The comparison below uses 15 users, the rounded average establishment size in the Providence, RI-MA metro area. At list prices checked September 28, 2026, that is $374.25 a month on Ooma Office Pro and $450.00 on RingCentral RingEX Core. On Callata the same 15 people cost $299.00 a month, less than either per-seat plan.