812 Area Code: Evansville, Indiana

The 812 area code covers southern Indiana, with Evansville as the primary city. Evansville sits along the Ohio River in the southwestern corner of the state, on a stretch of the river that bends through low limestone hills, and the city's working economy reflects a long manufacturing history — appliances and pharmaceuticals among the largest sectors — alongside a substantial healthcare presence and the river commerce that has anchored the city since the nineteenth century. The 812 footprint reaches across Bloomington (and Indiana University's main campus), Terre Haute, the limestone country of south-central Indiana, and a long band of small cities along the Ohio.

Records linked to 812 numbers in the directory often include Fort Wayne, Hammond, Indianapolis, and Lafayette — Indiana cities outside the 812 footprint. The pattern reflects standard public-record dynamics, with phone numbers porting across Indiana and addresses linked across multiple cities. The directory currently documents 594 distinct prefixes within 812 in detail, a working subset of the prefix population the code carries.

Evansville's home values come in well below the US median, in line with broader southern Indiana pricing. Median household income runs below the national figure, the city's median age sits close to the US reading, and population places Evansville among the larger Indiana cities outside the Indianapolis metro — substantial enough to anchor a regional economy organized around manufacturing, healthcare, and the surrounding river-and-farm country. The broader 812 footprint reflects a mix of mid-sized cities, university towns, and rural counties spread across the southern third of the state.