774 Area Code: Worcester, Massachusetts

Massachusetts's 774 area code is an overlay sharing geography with the long-running 508 across central and southeastern Massachusetts. Worcester anchors the directory's records here. The city sits in the rolling hill country of central Massachusetts, organized around a downtown that has been reshaping itself over the past decade alongside several university campuses and a long-running healthcare base. The 774 footprint reaches across Cape Cod, the islands, the South Coast cities of Fall River and New Bedford, and the surrounding cluster of small Massachusetts cities and towns — the same broad geography 508 has served for decades.

In records the directory has compiled for 774 numbers, other Massachusetts cities — Boston, Lowell, Quincy, and Springfield — recur regularly. None of those are inside the 774 footprint. The pattern reflects standard public-record dynamics across Massachusetts. The directory currently documents 267 distinct prefixes within 774 in detail, a working subset of the prefix population the code carries.

Worcester's home values come in close to the US median, with median household income running below the national figure. The city's median age sits a few years under the US reading, and population places Worcester as the second-largest city in Massachusetts. The 774 footprint shares those demographics with 508 because both codes serve the same broad geography in overlapping form, and the broader region's economic and demographic profile reflects a mix of mid-sized cities, coastal communities, and the surrounding rural and small-town interior.