An apartment for rent in Waltham or Malden draws calls from many strangers.
List it with a 781 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.
Local 781 numbers
Get a 781 phone number for Waltham and Lynn.
Ask for 781 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 781 number.
- Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
- Type 781 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
(781) 555-0128
Forwarding
Used car
(781) 555-0165
Texts only
Roofing quote
(781) 555-0102
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People ask for 781 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 781 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 781 number. Block the ones you did not choose.
This is where a 781 number is from.
Area code 781 took all the other communities of the old 617 area, outside Boston, Newton, Cambridge, Somerville, Everett, Chelsea, Winthrop, Milton, Quincy and Brookline, which kept 617, as the numbering administrator's 1997 letter puts it.
The same letter lists Lynn, Malden, Waltham, Medford, Revere, Weymouth, Braintree, Arlington, Woburn and Lexington. The 339 code is laid over the same area.
Waltham, Lynn and the communities around Boston, MA
Area code 781 and the codes around it, oldest first.
1947
617
Split from
1997
781
This code
2001
339
Shares the area
- Lynn
- Malden
- Waltham
- Revere
- Medford
- Weymouth
- Arlington
- Woburn
- Braintree
- Randolph
- Lexington
- Needham
These are the facts about area code 781.
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
- 1997
- Local calls are dialed with
- Ten digits
- Shares its area with
- 339 (2001)
- Split from
- 617 (1947)
781 was split from 617 and entered service on September 1, 1997. The Department of Telecommunications and Energy ordered a 339 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 781 number.
More in the full FAQ.
Create a number in your dashboard, type 781 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 781 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 781 area takes in Lynn, Malden, Waltham, Revere, Medford and Weymouth. 339 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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More area codes
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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