985 Area Code: Houma, Louisiana

Southern Louisiana outside the immediate New Orleans metro is served by the 985 area code, with Houma as the primary city in the directory's records. Houma sits in the bayou country of Terrebonne Parish, on a stretch of low-lying ground crossed by a network of natural and dredged waterways that connect inland to the Gulf of Mexico through the surrounding marshlands. The local working economy is shaped heavily by the offshore oil-and-gas industry — Houma has long been a base for service vessels and platform operations — alongside commercial fishing, seafood processing, and a substantial healthcare sector. The 985 footprint extends through Thibodaux, Slidell, and the parishes north of Lake Pontchartrain.

Records linked to 985 numbers in the directory often include Baton Rouge, Lafayette, New Orleans, and Shreveport — Louisiana cities outside the 985 footprint. The pattern reflects standard public-record dynamics, with phone numbers porting across Louisiana and addresses linked across multiple cities. The directory currently documents 317 distinct prefixes within 985 in detail, a working subset of the prefix population the code carries.

Houma's home values come in below the US median, with median household income running below the national figure. The city's median age sits a few years under the US reading, and population is modest in absolute terms — the city itself is small, but the broader 985 footprint anchors a substantial regional economy organized around the offshore industry, the surrounding seafood and fishing sectors, and the parishes north of Lake Pontchartrain.