POC(Phase-Only Correlation) is a useful method that can conduct face recognition without using feature extraction or eigenface, but uses Fourier transformation for square areas. In this paper, we propose an effective face area to increase the performance of face recognition using POC. Specifically, three areas are experimented for POC. The frist area is the square area that includes head and space. The second area is the square area from ear to ear horizontally and from the end of chin to the forehead vertically. The third area is the square area from the line under the lips to the forehead vertically and from cheek to cheek horizontally. Experimental results show that the second face area has the best advantage among the three types of areas to define the threshold for POC.