804 Area Code: Richmond, Virginia

Central Virginia is served by the 804 area code, with Richmond — the state capital — as its primary city. Richmond sits along the James River where the river drops sharply over a series of falls toward the Chesapeake Bay, on a stretch of the river that has anchored the city since the seventeenth century. The local working economy reflects state government, a substantial healthcare and biomedical sector centered on the VCU Medical Center, a long-running concentration of corporate headquarters (Capital One, Altria, and Dominion Energy among the largest), and a financial services base that has grown alongside them. The 804 footprint extends through Petersburg, the surrounding Richmond-area suburbs, and a band of small cities and rural counties spread across central Virginia.

Records linked to 804 numbers in the directory often include Arlington, Bristol, Lynchburg, and Roanoke — Virginia cities outside the 804 footprint. The pattern reflects standard public-record dynamics, with phone numbers porting across Virginia and addresses linked across multiple cities. The directory currently documents 574 distinct prefixes within 804 in detail, a working subset of the prefix population the code carries.

Richmond's home values come in close to the US median, with median household income running below the national figure. The city's median age sits a few years under the US reading, and population places Richmond among the larger cities in Virginia — substantial enough to anchor a regional economy organized around state government, healthcare, finance, and the surrounding cluster of suburbs.