380 Area Code: Columbus, Ohio

Ohio's 380 area code is an overlay sharing geography with the long-running 614 across the Columbus metropolitan region. Columbus — the state capital — anchors the directory's records here. The city sits at the geographic center of Ohio, on a flat stretch of country crossed by the Scioto River, organized around the Ohio State Capitol, Ohio State University, and a downtown that has reshaped itself substantially through the past two decades alongside a substantial concentration of corporate headquarters. The 380 designation, part of the North American Numbering Plan, has been filling with allocations as the broader 614 region's number demand has continued to grow.

In records the directory has compiled for 380 numbers, other Ohio cities — Akron, Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Dayton — appear regularly. None of those are inside the 380 footprint. The pattern reflects standard public-record dynamics across Ohio. The directory currently documents 17 distinct prefixes within 380 in detail, an early-stage subset that should be read as a working slice of the prefix population the code will eventually carry.

Columbus's home values come in close to the US median, with median household income running below the national figure but not severely so. The city's median age sits well under the US reading, in the low thirties, shaped heavily by the substantial student population at Ohio State. Population places Columbus as the largest city in Ohio — substantial enough to anchor a metropolitan area that has been one of the faster-growing in the Midwest. The 380 footprint shares those demographics with 614 because both codes serve the Columbus region in overlapping form.