540 Area Code: Roanoke, Virginia

Western Virginia is served by the 540 area code, with Roanoke as the primary city in the directory's records. Roanoke sits in a wide valley between the Blue Ridge and the Allegheny Mountains, on a stretch of country that has long functioned as the regional commercial center for southwestern Virginia. The city is home to a substantial Norfolk Southern Railway operation, Carilion Clinic (a major regional healthcare system), and the surrounding cluster of small cities and college towns of the broader region. The 540 footprint extends through Fredericksburg, Harrisonburg (James Madison University), Winchester, Staunton, and the surrounding cluster of western Virginia counties.

Records linked to 540 numbers in the directory often include Arlington, Bristol, Lynchburg, and Richmond — Virginia cities outside the 540 footprint. The pattern reflects standard public-record dynamics, with phone numbers porting across Virginia and addresses linked across multiple cities. The directory currently documents 608 distinct prefixes within 540 in detail, a working subset of the prefix population the code carries.

Roanoke's home values come in below the US median, with median household income running below the national figure. The city's median age sits close to the US reading, and population places Roanoke as one of the larger cities in western Virginia — substantial enough to anchor a regional economy organized around the railroad, healthcare, and the surrounding mix of small cities, college towns, and Shenandoah Valley counties.