862 Area Code: Newark, New Jersey

New Jersey's 862 area code is an overlay sharing geography with the long-running 973 across northern New Jersey. Newark anchors the directory's records here. The city sits at the head of Newark Bay, organized around a working port (Port Newark is one of the larger container ports on the East Coast), Newark Liberty International Airport, and a downtown that has reshaped itself substantially over the past two decades alongside the surrounding higher-education campuses. The 862 designation, part of the North American Numbering Plan, has been filling with allocations as the broader 973 region's number demand has continued to grow.

In records the directory has compiled for 862 numbers, other New Jersey cities — Cherry Hill, Edison, Elizabeth, and Jersey City — appear regularly. None of those are inside the 862 footprint. The pattern reflects standard public-record dynamics across New Jersey. The directory currently documents 201 distinct prefixes within 862 in detail, a working subset of the prefix population the code carries.

Newark's home values come in close to the US median, with median household income running well below the national figure — a reading shaped heavily by the city's long-running industrial transition and an unusually wide income distribution. The city's median age sits a few years under the US reading, and population places Newark as one of the larger cities in New Jersey. The 862 footprint shares those demographics with 973 because both codes serve northern New Jersey in overlapping form, and the broader region's economic and demographic profile reflects the city's role as a working port and transportation center.