501 Area Code: Little Rock, Arkansas

Phone numbers in the 501 area code originate across central Arkansas, with Little Rock as the primary city. Little Rock sits on the south bank of the Arkansas River where the foothills of the Ouachita Mountains dissolve into the Delta plain — a geographic transition that gives the city its characteristic mix of wooded ridges, a working river port, and flatter ground extending east. As the state capital and a regional medical and corporate hub, Little Rock anchors the 501 footprint and shapes much of its economic and demographic profile. The 501 designation has been associated with this region for many decades and is a member of the North American Numbering Plan.

Records the directory holds tied to 501 numbers often reference Fayetteville and Jonesboro — Arkansas cities outside the 501 footprint. Their appearance in the records is a normal artifact of porting, prior registration, address linkage, and other public-record dynamics that move numbers across the state. The directory currently documents 475 prefixes within 501 in detail. The actual prefix population assigned to the code is higher than this working figure, which represents the directory's coverage rather than the live total.

Little Rock's demographic profile is moderate by national measures. Household income sits below the US median, with home values likewise under the country-wide figure. The city's median age lands in the mid-thirties, slightly under the US reading, and the population places it among the larger state capitals of the South-Central region.