440 Area Code: Parma, Ohio

The 440 area code covers the suburban communities surrounding Cleveland, with Parma as the primary city in the directory's records. Parma sits in southwestern Cuyahoga County immediately south of Cleveland, organized around a substantial residential footprint that filled in heavily through the postwar decades alongside the surrounding industrial and commercial corridors. The 440 footprint covers the inner ring of Cleveland suburbs, including Lakewood, Westlake, Strongsville, Mentor, and a long band of communities running east along Lake Erie's southern shore — taking in much of Lorain, Geauga, and Lake counties along with the western and eastern halves of Cuyahoga.

Records linked to 440 numbers in the directory often include Akron, Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Columbus — Ohio cities outside the 440 footprint. The pattern reflects standard public-record dynamics, with phone numbers porting across Ohio and addresses linked across multiple cities. The directory currently documents 515 distinct prefixes within 440 in detail, a working subset of the prefix population the code carries.

Parma's home values come in below the US median, with median household income running close to the national figure. The city's median age sits notably above the US reading, in the low forties, a pattern shaped in part by long-standing residents and slower in-migration relative to other parts of the metro. Population places Parma as one of the larger cities in Ohio — substantial enough to anchor its own civic identity within the broader Cleveland metropolitan area. The 440 footprint as a whole reflects a long-running mix of inner-suburban communities and the surrounding cluster of lakeshore towns.