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Based on US Census data for Austin
34.5 y/o
Median Age
Compared to the US median age of 38.7 y/o
$91.5K
Median Income
Compared to the US median income of $78.5K
$512.7K
Median Home Value
Compared to the US median home value of $303.4K
967.9K
Austin Population
Compared to the US median city population of 171.9K
Texas's 737 area code is an overlay sharing geography with the long-running 512 across Austin and the surrounding central Texas region. Austin anchors the directory's records here. The city sits along the Colorado River in central Texas, organized around the Texas State Capitol, the University of Texas at Austin, and a substantial concentration of technology employment that has reshaped the city's working profile through recent decades. The 737 designation, part of the North American Numbering Plan, has been filling with allocations as the broader 512 region's number demand has continued to grow.
In records the directory has compiled for 737 numbers, other Texas cities — Abilene, Beaumont, College Station, and Conroe — appear regularly. None of those are inside the 737 footprint. The pattern reflects standard public-record dynamics across Texas. The directory currently documents 73 distinct prefixes within 737 in detail, a working subset of the prefix population the code carries.
Austin's median household income runs well above the US figure, supported in part by the wage premium tied to the surrounding technology, semiconductor, and life-sciences employment. Home values come in well above the national median, in line with broader Austin-metro pricing pressure. The city's median age sits a few years under the US reading, and population places Austin among the larger cities in the country. The 737 footprint shares those demographics with 512 because both codes serve the Austin region in overlapping form.

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