Area code 562

562 separated from all

Neutral

County anomaly

One anomaly in this area code is that all of it is in Los Angeles County except for the cities of Seal Beach and Los Alamitos, which are in the very northwest corner of the Orange County coastline, portions of the city of La Habra, and the very small and northwest part of the city of Brea in the very northwest corner of inland Orange County. These exceptions could exist because, at the time of 310's creation, Pacific Bell (now AT&T Inc.) was the primary telephone company for most of Southern California, whereas this region's primary telephone company was GTE (now Verizon). In fact, when this region was originally split from the 213 area code to become the 310 area code, Pacific Bell, being the primary local telephone company for this area (and had authority to decide what codes stayed in 213 and which ones moved), chose to move all of GTE's area code 213 exchanges into the 310 area code.

Cities and neighborhoods in the 562 area code

Los Angeles County

• Artesia
• Bell Gardens (also in the 323 area code)
• Bellflower
• Cerritos (small portion in the 714 area code)
• Commerce (mostly in the 323 area code)
• Downey
• East Whittier
• Hacienda Heights (mostly in the 626 area code)
• Hawaiian Gardens
• Industry (mostly in the 626 area code and small portion in the 909 area code)
• La Habra Heights
• La Mirada (small portion in the 714 area code)
• Lakewood
• Long Beach
• Norwalk
• Paramount
• Pico Rivera
• Rowland Heights (mostly in the 626 and 909 area codes)
• Santa Fe Springs
• Signal Hill
• South Gate (mostly in the 323 area code and small portion in the 310 area code)
• South Whittier
• West Whittier-Los Nietos
• Whittier

Orange County

• Brea (mostly in the 714 area code)
• Fullerton (mostly in the 714 area code)
• Huntington Beach adjacent to Surfside and Sunset Beach
• La Habra (small portion in the 714 area code)
• La Palma (mostly in the 714 area code)
• Los Alamitos (small portion in the 714 area code)
• Rossmoor
• Seal Beach
• Sunset Beach

See also

• List of California area codes
• List of NANP area codes
• North American Numbering Plan

External links

• North American Numbering Plan Administration
• Southern California area code map
• "Area Code Maps". NANPA.

• List of exchanges from AreaCodeDownload.com, 562 Area Code
• Area 562 Directory

California area codes: 209/350, 213/323, 310/424, 408/669, 415/628, 510/341, 530, 559, 562, 619/858, 626, 650, 661, 707/369, 714/657, 760/442, 805/820, 818/747, 831, 909/840, 916/279, 925, 949, 951

	North: 626, 323
West: 310/424, 323	area code 562	East: 657/714
	South: Pacific Ocean