The Connecticut area code referred to as 203 covers eleven counties and eighty-five cities, some of which being Patterson, Brookfield, Easton, New Haven, Shelton, Milford, Meriden, Hawthorne and Wolcott.
This area code also has a large total of 770 extensions served under it. The population being served within these extensions and North American telephone code 203 is almost one point seven million folks.
These are mainly made up of white people, with only a much small number of blacks (just under a seventh of the larger number). There are about an equal number of Hispanic based people being served under this area code as there are blacks. Women outnumber men by about fifty thousand.
This area code mainly serves the southwestern area of the state of Connecticut, but at one point this was the area code that represented all of the state of Connecticut.
Several noteworthy colleges are in this area, but mainly belonging to the county of New Haven, which is the least populated, but the largest of all counties in Connecticut. The universities are Post University, Yale University and Paier College of Art.
Since it was first established in the year 1947, this makes area code 203 on of the oldest area codes in the nation.
