334 Area Code: Montgomery, Alabama

Anchored on Montgomery, the 334 area code covers central and southeastern Alabama. Montgomery is the state capital and a city whose history sits unusually close to the surface — the Confederate capital briefly, then the site of the bus boycott that helped launch the modern civil rights movement, with both eras commemorated within walking distance of one another downtown. State government, several universities, and a sizable Air Force training installation give the city its working economic shape, alongside a long-standing role as the commercial hub of Alabama's Black Belt.

Records keyed to 334 numbers frequently surface other Alabama city names — Birmingham, Huntsville, and Mobile turn up most often. None of those are part of 334's geographic footprint. They appear because phone numbers move with their owners through porting and prior registration, and because public records cross-reference addresses statewide. Our current dataset contains detailed entries for 514 prefixes within this area code, and the real number of prefixes in active circulation runs higher; this figure represents what the directory documents, not the underlying total.

Montgomery's household income sits notably below the national median, and home values likewise track well under the US figure — typical homes in the city are valued at roughly half the national reading. The median age is several years younger than the country at large, and the city's overall population is comparable in scale to other state-capital cities of the southeastern interior.