901 Area Code: Memphis, Tennessee

The 901 area code covers Memphis and the immediately surrounding southwestern Tennessee region. Memphis sits along the Mississippi River at the bluff that gives the city its high-ground anchor, on a stretch of the river that has long anchored the city's working profile — a substantial port, a long-running music history (the city was a major center of blues, soul, and rock-and-roll recording across multiple eras), and a substantial concentration of logistics employment built around FedEx's main hub at Memphis International Airport. The 901 footprint covers Memphis itself along with Germantown, Bartlett, Collierville, and the surrounding Shelby County communities.

In records the directory has compiled for 901 numbers, other Tennessee cities — Chattanooga, Clarksville, Jackson, and Knoxville — recur frequently. None of those are inside the 901 footprint. The pattern reflects standard public-record dynamics, with phone numbers porting across Tennessee and addresses linked across multiple cities. The directory currently documents 475 distinct prefixes within 901 in detail, a working subset of the prefix population the code carries.

Memphis's home values come in dramatically below the US median, with median household income running well below the national figure. The city's median age sits a few years under the US reading, and population places Memphis among the larger cities in the southeastern United States — substantial enough to anchor a metropolitan area that pulls steadily on populations from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas. The broader 901 footprint covers the city's neighborhoods and the inner ring of Shelby County suburbs.