984 Area Code: Raleigh, North Carolina

North Carolina's 984 area code is an overlay sharing geography with the long-running 919 across the Research Triangle region. Raleigh — the state capital — anchors the directory's records here. The city sits in the rolling Piedmont country, organized around the North Carolina State Capitol and NC State, with a downtown that has reshaped itself substantially over the past two decades alongside the surrounding cluster of universities and research-and-development employment. The 984 designation, part of the North American Numbering Plan, has been filling with allocations as the broader 919 region's number demand has continued to grow.

In records the directory has compiled for 984 numbers, other North Carolina cities — Asheville, Charlotte, Fayetteville, and Greensboro — appear regularly. None of those are inside the 984 footprint. The pattern reflects standard public-record dynamics across North Carolina. The directory currently documents 72 distinct prefixes within 984 in detail, a working subset of the prefix population the code carries.

Raleigh's median household income runs above the US figure, supported in part by the wage premium tied to the surrounding Research Triangle's technology and biotech employment. Home values come in above the national median, the city's median age sits a few years under the US reading, and population places Raleigh among the larger cities in the southeastern United States. The 984 footprint shares those demographics with 919 because both codes serve the Research Triangle region in overlapping form.