An apartment for rent in Worcester or Framingham draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 774 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 774 numbers
Get a 774 phone number for Worcester and Cape Cod.
Ask for 774 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Worcester, Framingham, Brockton and Cape Cod. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.
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This is how you get a 774 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 774 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
(774) 555-0122
Forwarding
Summer rental
(774) 555-0169
Texts only
Roofing quote
(774) 555-0106
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People ask for 774 when the search is in Worcester, Brockton or on the Cape.
A summer rental on Cape Cod or Nantucket brings inquiries from people all over the country.
Post a 774 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 Plymouth or Brockton ends in follow-up calls.
Give each company its own 774 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 774 number is from.
Area code 774 is an overlay of 508, so it serves the same area, which the numbering administrator describes as including the Worcester, Framingham, Brockton and Plymouth areas, Cape Cod and the Islands.
Boston and the area north of it use 617, 781, 978 and their overlay codes.
Worcester, Framingham, Brockton and Cape Cod, MA
Area code 774 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1988
508
Shares the area
2001
774
This code
- Worcester
- Brockton
- New Bedford
- Fall River
- Framingham
- Plymouth
- Taunton
- Barnstable
- Attleboro
- Marlborough
- Natick
- Nantucket
These are the facts about area code 774.
From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.
- Place
- Worcester, Framingham, Brockton and Cape Cod, Massachusetts
- In service since
- 2001
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- 508 (1988)
The Massachusetts Department of Telecommunications and Energy ordered the overlay on April 25, 2000, in dockets D.T.E. 99-11 and 99-99, so no customer had to change a number. 774 entered service on May 2, 2001.
Dialing all ten digits for local calls became mandatory on April 2, 2001, whether the number starts with 508 or 774.
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People ask these questions about getting a 774 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 774 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 Worcester can put a 774 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 774 area takes in Worcester, Brockton, Fall River, New Bedford and Barnstable. 508 numbers cover the same area.
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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