845 Area Code: Poughkeepsie, New York

The 845 area code covers New York's Hudson Valley and the Catskills region, with Poughkeepsie as the primary city. Poughkeepsie sits along the Hudson River roughly 75 miles north of New York City, on a stretch of the river that has long supported a working downtown alongside the surrounding higher-education campuses (Vassar College and Marist College, in particular) and a substantial healthcare base. The local working economy also reflects a long-running IBM presence at the East Fishkill and Poughkeepsie sites, alongside a growing residential and commuter base linked to the New York metro by the Hudson Line. The 845 footprint extends through Newburgh, Middletown, Kingston, and the surrounding Hudson Valley counties.

In records the directory has compiled for 845 numbers, other New York cities — Albany, Binghamton, Brentwood, and Buffalo — recur frequently. None of those are inside the 845 footprint. The pattern reflects standard public-record dynamics, with phone numbers porting across New York and addresses linked across multiple cities. The directory currently documents 531 distinct prefixes within 845 in detail, a working subset of the prefix population the code carries.

Poughkeepsie's home values come in close to the US median, with median household income running below the national figure. The city's median age sits a touch above the US reading, and population is modest in absolute terms — the city itself is small, but the broader 845 footprint covers a substantial geographic stretch of the Hudson Valley and the Catskills, where the demographic profile varies considerably between the river-corridor cities and the more rural inland counties.