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Based on US Census data for Dallas
33.4 y/o
Median Age
Compared to the US median age of 38.7 y/o
$67.8K
Median Income
Compared to the US median income of $78.5K
$295.3K
Median Home Value
Compared to the US median home value of $303.4K
1.3M
Dallas Population
Compared to the US median city population of 171.9K
Texas's 469 area code is an overlay sharing geography with the long-running 214 and 972 across the Dallas region. Dallas anchors the directory's records here. The city sits in north-central Texas on the Trinity River, organized around a downtown core, the surrounding cluster of corporate headquarters, and the broader Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area that extends across multiple counties. The 469 designation, part of the North American Numbering Plan, has been filling with allocations as the broader Dallas region's number demand has continued to grow past what the older codes alone could support.
In records the directory has compiled for 469 numbers, other Texas cities — Abilene, Austin, Beaumont, and College Station — appear regularly. None of those are inside the 469 footprint. The pattern reflects standard public-record dynamics across Texas. The directory currently documents 561 distinct prefixes within 469 in detail, a working subset of the prefix population the code carries.
Dallas's home values come in close to the US median, with median household income running below the national figure but not severely so. The city's median age sits a few years under the US reading, and population places Dallas among the larger cities in the country. The 469 footprint shares those demographics with 214 because both codes serve the Dallas region in overlapping form, and the broader region's economic and demographic profile reflects the city's role as a corporate, finance, energy, and transportation center for a substantial share of the south-central United States.

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