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Based on US Census data for Baltimore
36.1 y/o
Median Age
Compared to the US median age of 38.7 y/o
$59.6K
Median Income
Compared to the US median income of $78.5K
$219.3K
Median Home Value
Compared to the US median home value of $303.4K
577.2K
Baltimore Population
Compared to the US median city population of 171.9K
Maryland's 443 area code is an overlay layered onto the same eastern-half footprint long served by the 410. Baltimore anchors the directory's records here. The city sits at the head of a deep natural harbor on the Patapsco River branch of the Chesapeake, organized around a working port and a substantial concentration of healthcare and biomedical employment. The 443 designation has been filling with allocations as eastern Maryland's number demand has continued to push past what 410 alone could carry, and the broader footprint extends across Annapolis, the Eastern Shore counties, and the surrounding central and eastern Maryland region.
Records linked to 443 numbers in the directory often include Germantown, a city in western Maryland that lies outside the 443 footprint. The pattern reflects standard public-record dynamics, with phone numbers porting across Maryland and addresses linked across multiple cities. The directory currently documents 619 distinct prefixes within 443 in detail, a working subset of the prefix population the code carries.
Baltimore's home values come in below the US median, with median household income running below the national figure. The city's median age sits close to the US reading, and population places Baltimore among the larger cities in the mid-Atlantic. The 443 footprint shares those demographics with 410 because both codes serve eastern Maryland in overlapping form, and the broader region's working economy reflects the port, healthcare, biomedical research, and the surrounding mix of suburban and rural counties.

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