254 Area Code: Killeen, Texas

Central Texas is served by the 254 area code, with Killeen as the primary city in the directory's records. Killeen sits in central Texas immediately adjacent to Fort Cavazos (formerly Fort Hood), one of the largest Army installations in the world by population. The military presence shapes a substantial slice of the local population and economic profile alongside a long-running role as the regional commercial center for the surrounding central Texas counties. The 254 footprint extends through Waco (Baylor University's main campus), Temple, Bryan-College Station's western reaches, and the surrounding cluster of small cities and farming counties of central Texas.

Records linked to 254 numbers in the directory often include Abilene, Austin, Beaumont, and College Station — Texas cities outside the 254 footprint. The pattern reflects standard public-record dynamics, with phone numbers porting across Texas and addresses linked across multiple cities. The directory currently documents 377 distinct prefixes within 254 in detail, a working subset of the prefix population the code carries.

Killeen's median age sits well under the US figure, at roughly thirty, a pattern shaped heavily by the substantial military and military-family population at Fort Cavazos. Median household income runs below the national reading, home values come in below the US median, and population places Killeen among the larger cities in central Texas — substantial enough to anchor its share of a regional metropolitan area that combines the military installation, the surrounding agricultural counties, and the broader central Texas corridor between Austin and Waco.