An apartment for rent in Waltham or Malden draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 339 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 339 numbers
Get a 339 phone number for Waltham and Lynn.
Ask for 339 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Waltham, Lynn and the communities around Boston. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 339 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 339 as the area code and give the number a name.
- Hand it out. Calls ring the phone you already carry, and texts land in your inbox.
- Burn it in one tap when you are done. Calls and texts to it stop at once.
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Your numbers
Apartment for rent
(339) 555-0124
Forwarding
Used car
(339) 555-0168
Texts only
Roofing quote
(339) 555-0103
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People ask for 339 when the search is in Waltham, Lynn or Weymouth.
A used car or a pair of tickets sold on a marketplace near Lynn brings texts all week.
Post a 339 number with the photos, set it to Texts only and keep your own number off the listing.
A moving job or a roofing quote in Weymouth or Woburn ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 339 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 339 number is from.
Area code 339 is an all-services overlay of 781, so it covers the same area: the communities of the old 617 area outside Boston, Cambridge, Newton, Somerville, Everett, Chelsea, Winthrop, Milton, Quincy and Brookline, as the numbering administrator's 1997 letter puts it.
The administrator's 2000 rate center map for the two codes labels Lynn, Malden, Waltham, Medford, Revere, Weymouth, Braintree, Arlington, Woburn and Lexington.
Waltham, Lynn and the communities around Boston, MA
Area code 339 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1997
781
Shares the area
2001
339
This code
- Lynn
- Malden
- Waltham
- Revere
- Medford
- Weymouth
- Arlington
- Woburn
- Braintree
- Randolph
- Lexington
- Needham
These are the facts about area code 339.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Waltham, Lynn and the communities around Boston, Massachusetts
- In service since
- 2001
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- 781 (1997)
The Department of Telecommunications and Energy ordered the overlay on April 25, 2000, so no one had to change a number.
Dialing all ten digits for local calls became mandatory on April 2, 2001, and 339 entered service on May 2, 2001.
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People ask these questions about getting a 339 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 339 as the area code and give it a name, such as Apartment for rent. It is live in about a minute. You do not need to live in Massachusetts: calls ring the phone you already carry.
Yes, for taking calls and texts. A roofer, a tutor or a mover in Waltham can put a 339 number on the flyer and the website, take the calls on their own phone and burn the number when the job is done.
Yes. The 339 area takes in Lynn, Malden, Waltham, Revere, Medford and Weymouth, and it shares the area with 781.
No. Your numbers are receive-only: they take calls and texts, and they never make them. You answer calls on your own phone, and you cannot reply to a text from the inbox.
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Every fact on this page comes from public numbering records.
The state, the dates and the related codes are rows of the North American Numbering Plan Administrator's area code database. The places are from its planning letters and the state’s own pages. Read October 21, 2026.
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