704 Area Code: Charlotte, North Carolina

Charlotte is the primary city of the 704 area code, the long-running designation for the city itself and the surrounding southwestern Piedmont. Charlotte sits in the rolling Piedmont country at the South Carolina state line, organized around a downtown that has reshaped itself substantially through the past three decades alongside the city's emergence as a major banking center. The local working economy reflects the financial-services concentration (Bank of America's headquarters, a substantial Truist presence, and a long list of supporting firms) alongside a growing technology, healthcare, and energy sector. The 704 footprint extends through Concord, Gastonia, Salisbury, and the surrounding southwestern North Carolina counties.

In records the directory has compiled for 704 numbers, other North Carolina cities — Asheville, Fayetteville, Greensboro, and Greenville — recur frequently. None of those are inside the 704 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 711 distinct prefixes within 704 in detail, a working subset of the prefix population the code carries.

Charlotte's home values come in close to the US median, with median household income running close to the national figure. The city's median age sits a few years under the US reading, and population places Charlotte among the larger cities in the southeastern United States — substantial enough to anchor a metropolitan area that pulls steadily on populations from across the Carolinas and the surrounding region.