With seventeen counties and sixty-one cities under its belt, area code 501 covers quite a lot of ground and provides phone service to up to one point eight million happy Californians.
This area code in particular presides over a lot of Alameda county, without leaving out Berkley or Oakland, however there are some cities which it does not get used in, like Livermore.
501 was brought about as a split from the original four fifteen area code do to ever growing portions of people, which of course is quite common in a state like California, especially considering the fact that it is the most heavily populated state with well over 30 million people to cater to in terms of phone and cellular communications needs.
Just take into consideration the fact that this state alone needs twenty-five area codes to keep everything flowing smoothly, which is the most of any state, with only Texas coming in a close second behind California boasting a total number of twenty-one area codes to date.
Later on in 1998, 925 the area code was created out of 501.
As mentioned before, there are plenty of cities under this jurisdiction. You will find under the 17 counties that 501 serves major and minor cities like Newark, Oakland, Port Costa and alsoEast Richmond Heights.
