Get a local business phone number in Wakefield, MA

Area codes in Wakefield

With 29,216 residents in the Census 2024 estimate, Wakefield sits in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. NANPA lists 22 exchanges for its rate center across 2 area codes; 781 has the most (20, 91%). 781 is part of an overlay with 339, so a new local number in Wakefield may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Wakefield 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.

Phone carriers in Wakefield

10 carriers hold the 22 exchanges assigned to Wakefield's rate center. Verizon New England INC. has the most, with 6. 17 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.

Local prefixes for Wakefield

A prefix (NXX) is the three digits after the area code. Numbers starting with these prefixes are rated as local to Wakefield. 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 Wakefield

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

If your business already has a Wakefield number, porting it to Callata is free and keeps it on your cards, listings and vehicles.

The local business market

Wakefield 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 Wakefield

Callata Office costs $99 per month for up to 5 people, and each additional user is $20 a month. That covers up to 3 local numbers, calling from a browser or your cell, transcribed voicemail, recorded calls with AI summaries, after-hours routing and E911 on each number.

Porting a number you already use in Wakefield is free, and business texting is available once the carrier registration (10DLC) is approved; the registration carries a one-time $49 fee. Which specific numbers are open in a given area code depends on carrier inventory at the time you sign up.

AI agents are optional: an AI receptionist or scheduler can pick up when the team is busy or closed, take a message, send a text or email, or transfer the call. They draw on prepaid AI minutes ($0.25/minute), disclose that they are AI, and outbound AI calls require prior consent and are limited to 8am–9pm.

The comparison below uses 20 users, the rounded average establishment size in the Boston, MA-NH metro area. At list prices checked September 28, 2026, that is $499.00 a month on Ooma Office Pro and $600.00 on RingCentral RingEX Core. Callata comes to $399.00 a month for 20 users ($99 a month with 5 users included, then $20 per additional user), below both.