352 Area Code: Gainesville, Florida

North-central Florida is served by the 352 area code, with Gainesville as its primary city. Gainesville sits on a flat hill country at the edge of the Florida lake belt, organized around the University of Florida — the state's flagship public university and one of the larger universities in the southeastern United States. The university's presence shapes much of the city's working economy, and the broader 352 footprint runs through Ocala, the surrounding horse country, and a band of small towns that fill out the north-central interior of the state.

In the directory's records linked to 352 numbers, other Florida cities — Cape Coral, Deltona, Fort Lauderdale, Jacksonville, and others — recur frequently. None of those are inside the 352 footprint. Their appearance reflects standard public-record dynamics across Florida, with porting and address linkages routinely placing other-city names alongside 352 records. We currently document 503 distinct prefixes within 352 in detail, a working subset of the prefixes the code actually carries.

Gainesville's median age is the most striking demographic feature: at the mid-twenties, the city sits well below the US figure, a pattern driven heavily by the university student population. Household income runs notably below the national reading, home values come in below the US median, and the city's population is modest in absolute terms but functions as the largest in the surrounding north-central Florida region — substantial enough to anchor a regional economy organized around the university, the medical center, and the surrounding agricultural counties.