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Get a 978 phone number for Lowell, Lawrence and Haverhill.

Ask for 978 when you create a number on ExpressNumber, and the number you hand out reads as Lowell, Lawrence and the towns of northeastern Massachusetts. It rings the phone you already carry, and you burn it in one tap.

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This is how you get a 978 number.

  1. Start your 7 days free and open Create a number.
  2. Type 978 as the area code and give the number a name.
  3. Hand it out. Calls ring the phone you already carry, and texts land in your inbox.
  4. Burn it in one tap when you are done. Calls and texts to it stop at once.
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People ask for 978 when the search is in Lowell, Lawrence or Haverhill.

An apartment for rent in Lowell or Lawrence draws calls from many strangers.

List it with a 978 number, take the calls on your own phone and burn the number once the lease is signed.

A used car or a boat for sale near Gloucester brings texts from buyers all week.

Post a 978 number with the photos, set it to Texts only and keep your own number off the ad.

A moving job or a roofing quote in Andover ends in follow-up calls.

Give each company its own 978 number. Block the ones you did not choose.

This is where a 978 number is from.

Area code 978 took the communities north of the Framingham, Boylston and Rutland areas when it was split from 508, as the numbering administrator puts it. The 351 code is laid over the same area.

Its 1997 town list includes Lowell, Lawrence, Haverhill, Peabody, Salem, Beverly, Fitchburg, Leominster, Gloucester, Newburyport, Andover and Billerica. Worcester, Framingham and Cape Cod stayed on 508.

  • Lowell
  • Lawrence
  • Haverhill
  • Peabody
  • Salem
  • Beverly
  • Fitchburg
  • Leominster
  • Gloucester
  • Newburyport
  • Andover
  • Billerica

These are the facts about area code 978.

From the public records of the body that runs US phone numbering, read October 21, 2026.

Place
Lowell, Lawrence and Haverhill, Massachusetts
In service since
1997
Local calls are dialed with
Ten digits
Shares its area with
351 (2001)
Split from
508 (1988)

978 was split from 508 and entered service on September 1, 1997. Worcester, Framingham, Brockton and Cape Cod kept 508, and the communities to the north took the new code.

The Department of Telecommunications and Energy ordered an overlay in April 2000. Dialing all ten digits for local calls became mandatory on April 2, 2001, and 351 entered service on May 2, 2001.

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People ask these questions about getting a 978 number.

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Create a number in your dashboard, type 978 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 Lowell can put a 978 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 978 area takes in Lowell, Lawrence, Haverhill, Peabody, Salem and Beverly. 351 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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