508 Area Code: Worcester, Massachusetts

Central and southeastern Massachusetts is served by the 508 area code, with Worcester as the primary city. Worcester sits in the rolling hill country of central Massachusetts, organized around a downtown that has been working through a substantial reinvestment over the past decade alongside several university campuses and a long-running medical and healthcare base. The 508 footprint reaches across Cape Cod, the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, the South Coast cities of Fall River and New Bedford, and the surrounding cluster of small Massachusetts cities and towns.

In records the directory has compiled for 508 numbers, other Massachusetts cities — Boston, Lowell, Quincy, and Springfield — recur frequently. None of those are inside the 508 footprint. The pattern reflects standard public-record dynamics, with phone numbers porting across Massachusetts and addresses linked across multiple cities. The directory currently documents 615 distinct prefixes within 508 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 and the anchor of central New England — substantial enough to support the surrounding cluster of colleges, hospitals, and the broader regional economy. The 508 footprint as a whole reflects a long band of mid-sized cities, coastal communities, and the surrounding rural and small-town interior of the state.