Area code 661 covers the span of eight counties, and within the restrictions of those counties about fifty-nine cities and/or towns such as Littlerock, Delano, Stevenson Ranch, Santa Clarita, Maricopa, Earlimart and California Hot Springs.
The population total that resides under these counties, towns and cities is a little over one point one million people, and this area code has a grand total of four hundred and eighty seven extensions.
The majority of the one million residents of area code 661 are white, with Hispanic culture coming in a second, and then followed up by blacks, where men outnumber women by a small figure.
This area code spans over almost all of Kern county, which alone has a very large population of well over five hundred thousand people.
Area code 661 was split off from area code 805 in 1999, and it also covers a good section of Tulare county as well, and the more well known to visitors - Santa Barbara county, which also has a very note-worthy population of just under five hundred thousand residents.
