252 Area Code: Greenville, North Carolina

Eastern North Carolina is served by the 252 area code, with Greenville as the primary city in the directory's records. Greenville sits along the Tar River in the inner Coastal Plain of eastern North Carolina, organized around East Carolina University and a substantial healthcare sector centered on Vidant Medical Center, which serves much of the eastern half of the state. The 252 footprint extends through Rocky Mount, Wilson, Goldsboro, the Outer Banks barrier islands, and the surrounding cluster of small cities and rural counties of eastern North Carolina.

Records linked to 252 numbers in the directory often include other North Carolina cities — Asheville, Charlotte, Fayetteville, and Greensboro among them. None of those are inside the 252 footprint. The pattern reflects standard public-record dynamics, with phone numbers porting across North Carolina and addresses linked across multiple cities. The directory currently documents 468 distinct prefixes within 252 in detail, a working subset of the prefix population the code carries.

Greenville's median age sits well under the US figure, at the high twenties, a pattern shaped heavily by the substantial student population at East Carolina University. Median household income runs below the national reading, home values come in close to the US median, and population places Greenville as one of the larger cities in eastern North Carolina — substantial enough to anchor a regional economy organized around the university, the medical center, and the surrounding agricultural counties of the Coastal Plain.