206 Area Code: Seattle, Washington

Seattle is the primary city of the 206 area code, the long-running designation for the city itself and the immediately surrounding inner waterfront. Seattle sits on a long isthmus between Puget Sound and Lake Washington, with the Olympic Mountains visible across the sound to the west and the Cascade Range rising to the east. The local working economy reflects a substantial concentration of technology employment (Amazon's headquarters, Microsoft's main presence in the broader metro), a long-running aerospace base anchored by Boeing's Puget Sound operations, and a substantial port that has long anchored Pacific trade. The 206 footprint covers the city itself.

Records linked to 206 numbers in the directory often include other Washington cities — Bellevue, Spokane, Tacoma, and Vancouver among them. None of those are inside the 206 footprint. The pattern reflects standard public-record dynamics, with phone numbers porting across Washington and addresses linked across multiple cities. The directory currently documents 607 distinct prefixes within 206 in detail, a working subset of the prefix population the code carries.

Seattle's median household income is the most striking demographic feature: at well above the US figure, the city carries one of the higher city-level income readings in the country, supported by the surrounding technology and aerospace wage premium. Home values come in roughly three times the US median, the median age sits close to the US reading, and population places Seattle among the larger cities in the Pacific Northwest.