262 Area Code: Kenosha, Wisconsin

Southeastern Wisconsin outside the immediate Milwaukee footprint is served by the 262 area code, with Kenosha as the primary city in the directory's records. Kenosha sits along Lake Michigan in southeastern Wisconsin near the Illinois state line, organized around a downtown core, a long-running manufacturing history, and a steady role as a regional commercial center alongside the broader Chicago–Milwaukee corridor. The 262 footprint extends through Racine, Waukesha, West Bend, the surrounding inner-suburban Milwaukee communities, and the cluster of small cities and rural counties that fill out southeastern Wisconsin outside Milwaukee proper.

Records linked to 262 numbers in the directory often include other Wisconsin cities — Eau Claire, Green Bay, Madison, and Milwaukee among them. None of those are inside the 262 footprint. The pattern reflects standard public-record dynamics, with phone numbers porting across Wisconsin and addresses linked across multiple cities. The directory currently documents 432 distinct prefixes within 262 in detail, a working subset of the prefix population the code carries.

Kenosha's home values come in below the US median, with median household income running below the national figure but not severely so. The city's median age sits close to the US reading, and population places Kenosha among the larger cities in southeastern Wisconsin — substantial enough to anchor its own civic identity within the broader Chicago–Milwaukee corridor and the surrounding cluster of inner-suburban Milwaukee communities. The 262 footprint as a whole reflects a mix of mid-sized cities and the surrounding southeastern Wisconsin counties.