479 Area Code: Fayetteville, Arkansas

Northwest Arkansas — the corner of the state pressed up against the Ozark Plateau and the Oklahoma and Missouri lines — falls inside the 479 area code, with Fayetteville as its primary city. Fayetteville is home to the flagship campus of the University of Arkansas, and the broader region has been reshaped over the past few decades by the growth of major retailers, food processors, and trucking operations headquartered nearby. The 479 footprint runs through Springdale, Rogers, Bentonville, Fort Smith, and a band of small towns extending south toward the Arkansas River.

Outside the 479 geography, Jonesboro and Little Rock turn up frequently in the directory's records linked to 479 numbers. Neither is part of the area code's footprint; the overlap reflects standard public-record dynamics — phone numbers porting across regions, addresses tied to multiple cities, and people moving between the state's metro centers without changing the number they carry. The directory holds detailed records on 347 distinct prefixes within 479, a working subset that should be read as a lower bound on the prefixes actually allocated to the code.

The most striking thing about Fayetteville's demographic profile is how young the city skews: the median age is well under the US figure, in the late twenties, a pattern shaped by the campus population. Home values run somewhat above the US median, household income lands a touch below, and the city's population, while smaller than Little Rock's, is large enough to anchor a regional metropolitan area that has been growing rapidly.