Pick 508 if the number should read as Worcester.
508 was split from 617 on July 16, 1988. Boston, Cambridge, Waltham and Quincy kept 617.
The area codes for Worcester are 508 and 774.
Area codes in Worcester
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Worcester is in 508, split from 617 in 1988, and 774, laid over it in 2001. The two cover Worcester, Framingham, Brockton, Cape Cod and the Islands.
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Pick 508 for Worcester, or 774 if you want the code laid over it.
Pick 774 if the number should look newer.
774 entered service on May 2, 2001, a month after ten-digit dialing became mandatory.
Pick 978 for the towns north of Framingham.
978 took them, with Boylston and Rutland, on September 1, 1997.
People filed 361 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from Worcester area codes in 12 months.
From October 2025 to September 2026, 361 unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC gave a caller ID number that started with 508 and 774. 508 was named most, on 236 of them (65%).
- 361unwanted-call complaints named a Worcester code
- 508was named on the most of them, 236
- 65%of the Worcester complaints named 508
Source: Federal Communications Commission, CGB - Consumer Complaints Data (dataset 3xyp-aqkj), issue "Unwanted Calls", read on November 4, 2026. Caller ID can be faked, so a code shows what appeared on the phone, not where the caller was.
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People ask these questions about Worcester area codes.
More in the full FAQ.
Yes. 508 covers the Worcester, Framingham, Brockton and Plymouth areas, Cape Cod and the Islands.
No. Boston and Cambridge use 617 and 857.
A local call in Worcester is dialed with ten digits, whichever of its codes the number starts with. The area code is part of every number you give out.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people filed 361 FCC complaints about unwanted calls from numbers that start with a Worcester code: 508 (236) and 774 (125). A complaint is one person's report. Caller ID can be faked, so a code shows what appeared on the phone, not where the caller was.
Yes. You type the area code you want when you create a number, and you do not need to live in Worcester. Calls ring the phone you already have, and texts land in your ExpressNumber inbox.
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 codes, the places and the years are rows of the North American Numbering Plan Administrator's area code database, and the complaints are the FCC's own.
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