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Based on US Census data for New York City
38 y/o
Median Age
Compared to the US median age of 38.7 y/o
$79.7K
Median Income
Compared to the US median income of $78.5K
$751.7K
Median Home Value
Compared to the US median home value of $303.4K
8.5M
New York City Population
Compared to the US median city population of 171.9K
New York's 332 area code is an overlay sharing geography with the long-running 212 across Manhattan. New York City anchors the directory's records here — specifically the borough of Manhattan, set on the long narrow island bounded by the Hudson, East, and Harlem rivers. The 332 designation, part of the North American Numbering Plan, has been filling with allocations as Manhattan's number demand has continued to grow past what the older codes can support.
Records linked to 332 numbers in the directory often include other New York cities — Albany, Binghamton, Brentwood, and Buffalo among them. None of those are inside the 332 footprint. The pattern reflects standard public-record dynamics, with phone numbers porting across New York and addresses linked across multiple cities. The directory currently documents 15 distinct prefixes within 332 in detail, an early-stage subset that should be read as a working slice of the prefix population the code will eventually carry.
New York City's population is its dominant demographic feature: with several million residents in Manhattan alone and many more across the five boroughs, the city sits as one of the largest in the world. Home values in the city run several times the US median, household income comes in slightly above the national reading citywide, and the median age sits close to the US figure. The 332 footprint shares those demographics with 212 because both codes serve Manhattan in overlapping form, and Manhattan specifically carries a higher cost-of-living profile than the broader city as a whole.

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