574 Area Code: South Bend, Indiana

The 574 area code covers north-central Indiana, with South Bend as the primary city. South Bend sits along the St. Joseph River near the Michigan state line, organized around the campus of the University of Notre Dame and a downtown that has been working through a long reorientation from its mid-century manufacturing base — the city was once the headquarters of Studebaker, and the older industrial buildings still anchor much of the downtown's footprint. The 574 designation reaches across the broader north-central region, taking in Mishawaka, Elkhart, Goshen, and the surrounding counties.

Records linked to 574 numbers in the directory often include Evansville, Fort Wayne, Hammond, and Indianapolis — Indiana cities outside the 574 footprint. The pattern reflects standard public-record dynamics, with phone numbers porting across Indiana and addresses linked across multiple cities. The directory currently documents 272 distinct prefixes within 574 in detail, a working subset of the prefix population the code carries.

South Bend's home values come in well below the US median, in line with broader north-central Indiana pricing. Median household income runs below the national figure, the city's median age sits a few years under the US reading, and population places South Bend among the larger Indiana cities outside the Indianapolis metro — substantial enough to anchor a regional economy organized around the university, a growing healthcare sector, and the surrounding manufacturing base. The broader 574 footprint also includes Elkhart's RV-manufacturing corridor, one of the larger concentrations of recreational-vehicle production anywhere in the country.