716 Area Code: Buffalo, New York

Western New York is served by the 716 area code, with Buffalo as its primary city. Buffalo sits at the eastern end of Lake Erie where the Niagara River begins its run north toward Lake Ontario and the falls. The city's working economy reflects a long industrial history — steel, automotive supplies, grain processing, and the rail-and-canal commerce that built the city through the nineteenth century — alongside a more recent reorientation toward healthcare (Roswell Park, Kaleida Health), higher education, and a growing technology sector. The 716 footprint extends through Niagara Falls, the surrounding Erie and Niagara County communities, and the smaller cities and farming counties of southwestern New York.

In records the directory has compiled for 716 numbers, other New York cities — Albany, Binghamton, Brentwood, and Hempstead — recur frequently. None of those are inside the 716 footprint. The pattern reflects standard public-record dynamics, with phone numbers porting across New York and addresses linked across multiple cities. The directory currently documents 567 distinct prefixes within 716 in detail, a working subset of the prefix population the code carries.

Buffalo's home values come in well below the US median, with median household income running well below the national figure. The city's median age sits a few years under the US reading, and population places Buffalo among the larger cities in upstate New York — substantial enough to anchor a regional economy organized around healthcare, the universities, and a working manufacturing base that has reshaped considerably across recent decades.