Get a local business phone number in Wareham, MA

What area code is Wareham, MA?

Wareham town is a Census town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, with an estimated 23,526 residents in 2024. NANPA lists 9 exchanges for its rate center across 2 area codes; 508 has the most (5, 56%). 508 is part of an overlay with 774, so a new local number in Wareham may carry any of those codes depending on which have numbers available. Wareham 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 Wareham phone exchanges

5 carriers hold the 9 exchanges assigned to Wareham's rate center. Verizon New England INC. has the most, with 3. 6 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 Wareham

These are the central office codes NANPA records for Wareham. A caller seeing one of them recognizes a local number. The earliest assignment date recorded in the file for these codes is 2005. 1 of the 9 were assigned in 2020 or later.

When Wareham's exchanges were assigned

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

What makes a number local to Wareham

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

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

Businesses around Wareham

Wareham 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 Wareham number on Callata

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If you already have a number in Wareham, 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.

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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.