940 Area Code: Denton, Texas

North-central Texas outside the immediate Dallas–Fort Worth footprint is served by the 940 area code, with Denton as the primary city. Denton sits in north-central Texas at the northern edge of the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area, organized around the University of North Texas and Texas Woman's University — two substantial public universities that shape much of the city's working profile. The 940 footprint extends through Wichita Falls, Gainesville, the surrounding north-central Texas counties, and a long band of small cities and farming counties extending west along the Red River toward the Texas Panhandle.

Records linked to 940 numbers in the directory often include Abilene, Austin, Beaumont, and College Station — Texas cities outside the 940 footprint. The pattern reflects standard public-record dynamics, with phone numbers porting across Texas and addresses linked across multiple cities. The directory currently documents 266 distinct prefixes within 940 in detail, a working subset of the prefix population the code carries.

Denton's median age sits well under the US figure, at roughly thirty, a pattern shaped heavily by the substantial student population across the city's two main universities. Median household income runs below the national reading, home values come in close to the US median, and population places Denton among the faster-growing cities in north-central Texas — substantial enough to anchor a regional economy organized around the universities and the surrounding northward extension of the Dallas–Fort Worth metro.