Public FCC data

Which area codes send the most spam calls? The FCC's complaints to September 2026 name 303 most often.

From October 2025 to September 2026, people filed 125,367 unwanted-call complaints with the FCC, and 54,074 of them gave the caller ID number that showed on their phone. This page counts those numbers by area code, month and state, from the FCC's open data as read on October 26, 2026.

125,367unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC, October 2025 to September 2026
54,074of them gave the caller ID number that showed on the phone (43%)
2,219complaints named 303 (Denver and Boulder), more than any other area code

Source: Federal Communications Commission, CGB - Consumer Complaints Data (dataset 3xyp-aqkj), issue "Unwanted Calls", filed October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2026, read from opendata.fcc.gov on October 26, 2026. How to read these numbers.

303 leads the 25 busiest local area codes with 2,219 complaints, 98% of them from Colorado.

Each bar counts the complaints whose caller ID started with that code. Together these 25 codes account for 11,313 complaints, 21% of the 54,074 caller ID numbers. The toll-free codes belong to no place, so they are counted separately further down.

The 25 busiest local area codes

Complaints naming each local area code, October 2025 to September 2026.

1303Denver and BoulderCO · 98% filed from CO2,219
2202Washington, D.C.DC · 2% filed from DC823
3630Naperville, Aurora and the western suburbs of ChicagoIL · 96% filed from IL707
4502LouisvilleKY · 9% filed from KY613
5509Eastern WashingtonWA · 90% filed from WA495
6804Richmond and central VirginiaVA · 49% filed from VA423
7270Bowling Green and western KentuckyKY · 9% filed from KY421
8208IdahoID · 18% filed from ID405
9518Albany and eastern upstate New YorkNY · 25% filed from NY370
10970Northern and western ColoradoCO · 65% filed from CO362
11571Northern VirginiaVA · 13% filed from VA332
12434Lynchburg, Charlottesville and DanvilleVA · 16% filed from VA329
13480Phoenix, Mesa and ScottsdaleAZ · 73% filed from AZ328
14304West VirginiaWV · 10% filed from WV322
15901MemphisTN · 17% filed from TN322
16205BirminghamAL · 35% filed from AL316
17720DenverCO · 78% filed from CO316
18956Laredo, McAllen and BrownsvilleTX · 95% filed from TX314
19470Metro AtlantaGA · 26% filed from GA296
20540Roanoke, Harrisonburg and FredericksburgVA · 41% filed from VA291
21631Suffolk County, Long IslandNY · 23% filed from NY270
22213Downtown Los AngelesCA · 39% filed from CA262
23407OrlandoFL · 67% filed from FL261
24916SacramentoCA · 85% filed from CA259
25310Santa Monica and Beverly HillsCA · 92% filed from CA257

The small line under each place gives the state the code belongs to and how many of its complaints were filed from that state.

A code can be a local story or a national one. 98% of the 303 complaints were filed from Colorado, while only 2% of the 202 complaints came from the District of Columbia.

Across every code that belongs to a US state, 50% of the 43,420 complaints came from someone in the code's own state.

Monthly complaints rose from 10,219 in May to 14,498 in September.

The FCC file is thin for October 2025 (323 complaints of any kind) and November 2025 (16,267 complaints of any kind), against a median of about 29,400 a month across the 12 months, so both lines start low. Those months are shaded and dotted.

Complaints by month

Unwanted-call complaints per month, October 2025 to September 2026.

All unwanted-call complaints
Complaints that gave a caller ID number
Months the FCC file is thin

Unwanted-call complaints per month
Month	All complaints	With a caller ID number
October 2025	36	6
November 2025	6,699	2,404
December 2025	10,285	3,873
January 2026	11,782	5,232
February 2026	10,587	4,587
March 2026	10,874	4,697
April 2026	10,697	4,823
May 2026	10,219	4,272
June 2026	11,674	5,041
July 2026	13,960	6,345
August 2026	14,056	6,061
September 2026	14,498	6,733

43% of the complaints in the 12 months gave a caller ID number, and only those can be counted by area code. The rest left the box blank.

Seven toll-free codes carry 18% of the caller ID numbers people reported, and 833 alone has 2,041.

Toll-free codes (800, 833, 844, 855, 866, 877 and 888) belong to no place, so they sit outside the ranking above. Local codes, the ones tied to a place, take 82%.

Toll-free against local codes

Where the 54,074 caller ID numbers came from.

Local codes, tied to a place82% · 44,196 complaints
Toll-free codes18% · 9,731 complaints
Special-use or unassigned0.3% · 147 complaints

Each toll-free code, as a share of all caller ID numbers.

18333.8% of all caller ID numbers2,041
28553.1% of all caller ID numbers1,668
38772.9% of all caller ID numbers1,546
48662.6% of all caller ID numbers1,413
58882.5% of all caller ID numbers1,375
68442.5% of all caller ID numbers1,350
78000.6% of all caller ID numbers338

The remaining 147 complaints named a special-use code or a prefix that is not an assigned area code.

California, Florida and Texas file the most unwanted-call complaints.

California filed 12,899, Florida 10,741 and Texas 10,673. The count is where the person who complained is, not where the caller is. Colorado is fourth with 6,602, and 2,184 of those complaints named a 303 number.

Where the complaints were filed

Unwanted-call complaints filed from the ten busiest states, October 2025 to September 2026.

1California12,899
2Florida10,741
3Texas10,673
4Colorado6,602
5Pennsylvania5,279
6North Carolina5,195
7New York5,116
8Georgia4,582
9Illinois4,582
10Virginia4,242

Prerecorded calls are the largest group at 41%, and 75% of complaints came from people on a cell phone.

The FCC files robocalls, live callers and texts under one issue, "Unwanted Calls". The two bars show how the 125,367 complaints split by what the person says reached them and by the kind of phone they were on.

What kind of contact it was

How the 125,367 complaints split.

What reached them

Prerecorded call41% · 51,301 complaints
Live caller26% · 33,189 complaints
Text message15% · 19,314 complaints
Kind not stated17% · 21,563 complaints

The phone it reached

Cell phone75% · 94,139 complaints
Internet phone (VoIP)16% · 19,879 complaints
Wired phone9% · 11,217 complaints
Line not statedunder 1% · 132 complaints

The 12 months of complaints named 431 different area codes, and you can search every one.

Type a code, a place or a state, or show only the local or only the toll-free codes. A code that is a link has its own ExpressNumber page.

431 area codes

Rank	Code	Place	Kind	Complaints
1	303	Denver and Boulder, COLocal	Local	2,219
2	833	Toll-free, tied to no placeToll-free	Toll-free	2,041
3	855	Toll-free, tied to no placeToll-free	Toll-free	1,668
4	877	Toll-free, tied to no placeToll-free	Toll-free	1,546
5	866	Toll-free, tied to no placeToll-free	Toll-free	1,413
6	888	Toll-free, tied to no placeToll-free	Toll-free	1,375
7	844	Toll-free, tied to no placeToll-free	Toll-free	1,350
8	202	Washington, D.C.Local	Local	823
9	630	Naperville, Aurora and the western suburbs of Chicago, ILLocal	Local	707
10	502	Louisville, KYLocal	Local	613
11	509	Eastern Washington, WALocal	Local	495
12	804	Richmond and central Virginia, VALocal	Local	423
13	270	Bowling Green and western Kentucky, KYLocal	Local	421
14	208	Idaho, IDLocal	Local	405
15	518	Albany and eastern upstate New York, NYLocal	Local	370
16	970	Northern and western Colorado, COLocal	Local	362
17	800	Toll-free, tied to no placeToll-free	Toll-free	338
18	571	Northern Virginia, VALocal	Local	332
19	434	Lynchburg, Charlottesville and Danville, VALocal	Local	329
20	480	Phoenix, Mesa and Scottsdale, AZLocal	Local	328
21	304	West Virginia, WVLocal	Local	322
22	901	Memphis, TNLocal	Local	322
23	205	Birmingham, ALLocal	Local	316
24	720	Denver, COLocal	Local	316
25	956	Laredo, McAllen and Brownsville, TXLocal	Local	314
26	470	Metro Atlanta, GALocal	Local	296
27	540	Roanoke, Harrisonburg and Fredericksburg, VALocal	Local	291
28	631	Suffolk County, Long Island, NYLocal	Local	270
29	213	Downtown Los Angeles, CALocal	Local	262
30	407	Orlando, FLLocal	Local	261
31	916	Sacramento, CALocal	Local	259
32	310	Santa Monica and Beverly Hills, CALocal	Local	257
33	520	Tucson and southern Arizona, AZLocal	Local	257
34	863	Polk County and the Florida Heartland, FLLocal	Local	251
35	512	Austin, TXLocal	Local	250
36	360	Olympia, Bellingham and Vancouver, WALocal	Local	238
37	719	Colorado Springs and Pueblo, COLocal	Local	238
38	508	Worcester, Framingham, Brockton and Cape Cod, MALocal	Local	236
39	928	Arizona outside Phoenix and Tucson, AZLocal	Local	236
40	806	Lubbock and Amarillo, TXLocal	Local	234
41	321	Brevard County, FLLocal	Local	231
42	813	Tampa, FLLocal	Local	229
43	469	Dallas, TXLocal	Local	228
44	609	Trenton, Atlantic City and the Jersey Shore, NJLocal	Local	226
45	978	Lowell, Lawrence and Haverhill, MALocal	Local	222
46	865	Knoxville, TNLocal	Local	220
47	301	Montgomery County and western Maryland, MDLocal	Local	211
48	912	Savannah and Southeast Georgia, GALocal	Local	210
49	201	Hudson and Bergen counties, NJLocal	Local	209
50	929	Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island, NYLocal	Local	209
51	302	Delaware, DELocal	Local	208
52	214	Dallas, TXLocal	Local	206
53	786	Miami, FLLocal	Local	205
54	412	Pittsburgh, PALocal	Local	203
55	610	Allentown, Reading and the Philadelphia suburbs, PALocal	Local	203
56	903	Tyler, Longview and Texarkana, TXLocal	Local	199
57	941	Sarasota, Bradenton and Port Charlotte, FLLocal	Local	197
58	949	South Orange County, CALocal	Local	196
59	904	Jacksonville, FLLocal	Local	195
60	817	Fort Worth and Arlington, TXLocal	Local	194
61	267	Philadelphia, PALocal	Local	190
62	206	Seattle, WALocal	Local	189
63	870	Jonesboro, Pine Bluff and northern, eastern and southern Arkansas, ARLocal	Local	188
64	561	Palm Beach County, FLLocal	Local	187
65	856	Camden and southwestern New Jersey, NJLocal	Local	186
66	405	Oklahoma City, OKLocal	Local	184
67	702	Las Vegas, NVLocal	Local	180
68	423	Chattanooga, Johnson City and Kingsport, TNLocal	Local	178
69	816	Kansas City and northwestern Missouri, MOLocal	Local	178
70	850	Pensacola, Tallahassee and Panama City, FLLocal	Local	178
71	972	Dallas, Plano and Irving, TXLocal	Local	175
72	305	Miami and the Florida Keys, FLLocal	Local	174
73	415	San Francisco, CALocal	Local	174
74	239	Lee and Collier counties, FLLocal	Local	173
75	240	Silver Spring, Frederick and Hagerstown, MDLocal	Local	173
76	404	Atlanta, GALocal	Local	173
77	845	Poughkeepsie, Newburgh and Kingston, NYLocal	Local	173
78	252	Greenville, Rocky Mount and New Bern, NCLocal	Local	172
79	484	Allentown, Reading and the western Philadelphia suburbs, PALocal	Local	170
80	513	Cincinnati, OHLocal	Local	170
81	757	Norfolk, Virginia Beach and Newport News, VALocal	Local	169
82	716	Buffalo, Niagara Falls and Jamestown, NYLocal	Local	167
83	602	Phoenix, AZLocal	Local	166
84	980	Charlotte and the surrounding area, NCLocal	Local	166
85	708	The south and west suburbs of Chicago, ILLocal	Local	165
86	832	Houston, TXLocal	Local	165
87	954	Broward County, FLLocal	Local	164
88	805	Santa Barbara and Ventura, CALocal	Local	163
89	760	North San Diego County and the desert, CALocal	Local	159
90	562	Long Beach and southeast Los Angeles County, CALocal	Local	157
91	646	Manhattan, NYLocal	Local	157
92	727	Pinellas County and west Pasco County, FLLocal	Local	157
93	920	Green Bay, Appleton and northeastern Wisconsin, WILocal	Local	155
94	706	Augusta, Columbus and Athens, GALocal	Local	153
95	770	Metro Atlanta, outside the city of Atlanta, GALocal	Local	153
96	281	Greater Houston, TXLocal	Local	151
97	857	Boston, Cambridge and Quincy, MALocal	Local	151
98	781	Waltham, Lynn and the communities around Boston, MALocal	Local	150
99	315	Central New York, NYLocal	Local	148
100	917	New York City, NYLocal	Local	148
101	313	Detroit, MILocal	Local	145
102	314	St. Louis, MOLocal	Local	144
103	908	Plainfield, Somerville and Flemington, NJLocal	Local	144
104	707	Sonoma and Napa counties, CALocal	Local	143
105	818	San Fernando Valley, CALocal	Local	142
106	615	Nashville, TNLocal	Local	141
107	650	San Mateo County and Palo Alto, CALocal	Local	141
108	330	Akron, Canton and Youngstown, OHLocal	Local	136
109	614	Columbus, OHLocal	Local	136
110	678	Metro Atlanta, GALocal	Local	136
111	771	Washington, D.C.Local	Local	136
112	858	San Diego, CALocal	Local	136
113	910	Fayetteville, Wilmington and Jacksonville, NCLocal	Local	136
114	717	Harrisburg, Lancaster and York, PALocal	Local	135
115	607	Binghamton, Ithaca and Elmira, NYLocal	Local	134
116	440	Cleveland suburbs, OHLocal	Local	133
117	207	All of Maine, MELocal	Local	132
118	617	Boston, MALocal	Local	132
119	828	Asheville and western North Carolina, NCLocal	Local	132
120	414	Milwaukee, WILocal	Local	131
121	712	Sioux City and Council Bluffs, IALocal	Local	131
122	216	Cleveland, OHLocal	Local	129
123	843	Charleston, Myrtle Beach and the South Carolina coast, SCLocal	Local	129
124	410	Baltimore, MDLocal	Local	128
125	443	Baltimore and the Eastern Shore, MDLocal	Local	128
126	773	Chicago, ILLocal	Local	128
127	803	Columbia, Rock Hill and Aiken, SCLocal	Local	128
128	210	San Antonio, TXLocal	Local	127
129	734	Ann Arbor and the suburbs outside Detroit, MILocal	Local	127
130	515	Des Moines and Ames, IALocal	Local	125
131	774	Worcester, Framingham, Brockton and Cape Cod, MALocal	Local	125
132	860	Hartford and most of Connecticut, CTLocal	Local	124
133	425	Bellevue, Everett and Renton, WALocal	Local	123
134	619	San Diego, CALocal	Local	123
135	217	Springfield, Champaign and Decatur, ILLocal	Local	122
136	724	Greensburg and the communities around Pittsburgh, PALocal	Local	122
137	713	Houston, TXLocal	Local	120
138	323	Los Angeles, CALocal	Local	119
139	209	The northern San Joaquin Valley and Sierra foothills, CALocal	Local	118
140	262	Waukesha, Racine and Kenosha, WILocal	Local	118
141	931	Clarksville, Cookeville and Columbia, TNLocal	Local	118
142	704	Charlotte, NCLocal	Local	117
143	317	Indianapolis, INLocal	Local	115
144	703	Arlington, Alexandria and Fairfax, VALocal	Local	115
145	737	Greater Austin, TXLocal	Local	115
146	608	Madison and southwestern Wisconsin, WILocal	Local	114
147	801	Salt Lake City, Ogden and Provo, UTLocal	Local	114
148	918	Tulsa and eastern Oklahoma, OKLocal	Local	114
149	248	Oakland County, MILocal	Local	112
150	352	Gainesville and Ocala, FLLocal	Local	112
151	830	The Texas Hill Country and the San Antonio suburbs, TXLocal	Local	112
152	475	Southwest Connecticut, CTLocal	Local	111
153	516	Nassau County, Long Island, NYLocal	Local	111
154	251	Mobile and the surrounding area, ALLocal	Local	110
155	401	Rhode Island, RILocal	Local	110
156	740	Southeast and central Ohio, OHLocal	Local	110
157	775	Reno, Carson City and most of Nevada, NVLocal	Local	110
158	914	Westchester County, NYLocal	Local	110
159	346	Houston, TXLocal	Local	109
160	815	Rockford, Joliet and northern Illinois, ILLocal	Local	109
161	231	Traverse City and Muskegon, MILocal	Local	108
162	951	Riverside, CALocal	Local	108
163	386	Daytona Beach, Deltona and the counties of north-central Florida, FLLocal	Local	107
164	551	Hudson and Bergen counties, NJLocal	Local	107
165	626	The San Gabriel Valley, CALocal	Local	106
166	517	Lansing and the area around it, MILocal	Local	104
167	503	Portland and Salem, ORLocal	Local	102
168	913	Kansas City, Kansas and Overland Park, KSLocal	Local	102
169	347	Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island, NYLocal	Local	101
170	478	Macon, Warner Robins and Dublin, GALocal	Local	100
171	559	Fresno and the San Joaquin Valley, CALocal	Local	100
172	318	Shreveport, Monroe and Alexandria, LALocal	Local	99
173	402	Eastern Nebraska, NELocal	Local	99
174	501	Little Rock and central Arkansas, ARLocal	Local	99
175	810	Flint, Lapeer and Port Huron, MILocal	Local	99
176	919	Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, NCLocal	Local	97
177	937	Dayton and Springfield, OHLocal	Local	97
178	229	Albany and Southwest Georgia, GALocal	Local	96
179	316	Wichita, KSLocal	Local	96
180	406	All of Montana, MTLocal	Local	96
181	754	Broward County, FLLocal	Local	96
182	312	Downtown Chicago, ILLocal	Local	95
183	989	Saginaw, Bay City and Mount Pleasant, MILocal	Local	94
184	909	Ontario, Fontana and Pomona, CALocal	Local	93
185	971	Portland and Salem, ORLocal	Local	93
186	680	Central New York, NYLocal	Local	92
187	943	Metro Atlanta, GALocal	Local	92
188	618	Belleville and southern Illinois, ILLocal	Local	91
189	925	Concord, Walnut Creek and Livermore, CALocal	Local	91
190	385	Salt Lake City, Ogden and Provo, UTLocal	Local	90
191	606	Ashland, Pikeville and eastern Kentucky, KYLocal	Local	90
192	715	Eau Claire, Wausau and northern Wisconsin, WILocal	Local	90
193	408	San Jose, CALocal	Local	89
194	645	Miami and the Florida Keys, FLLocal	Local	89
195	864	Greenville, Spartanburg and Anderson, SCLocal	Local	89
196	224	The northern and northwest Chicago suburbs, ILLocal	Local	88
197	510	Oakland and the East Bay, CALocal	Local	88
198	682	Fort Worth and Arlington, TXLocal	Local	88
199	732	New Brunswick, Edison and the Jersey Shore, NJLocal	Local	88
200	762	Augusta, Columbus and Athens, GALocal	Local	87
201	256	Huntsville, Gadsden and Anniston, ALLocal	Local	86
202	419	Toledo and northwest Ohio, OHLocal	Local	85
203	505	Albuquerque and Santa Fe, NMLocal	Local	85
204	541	Eugene and southern and eastern Oregon, ORLocal	Local	85
205	603	All of New Hampshire, NHLocal	Local	85
206	623	Glendale and the West Valley of Phoenix, AZLocal	Local	85
207	253	Tacoma, Kent and Federal Way, WALocal	Local	84
208	570	Scranton, Wilkes-Barre and Williamsport, PALocal	Local	84
209	585	Rochester and western New York, NYLocal	Local	84
210	203	Southwest Connecticut, CTLocal	Local	83
211	504	New Orleans, LALocal	Local	83
212	413	Springfield and western Massachusetts, MALocal	Local	82
213	814	Erie, Altoona, Johnstown and State College, PALocal	Local	82
214	215	Philadelphia, PALocal	Local	81
215	319	Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and Waterloo, IALocal	Local	81
216	862	Newark, Paterson and Morristown, NJLocal	Local	81
217	219	Northwest Indiana, INLocal	Local	80
218	424	Western Los Angeles County, CALocal	Local	80
219	573	Columbia, Jefferson City and eastern Missouri, MOLocal	Local	80
220	612	Minneapolis, MNLocal	Local	80
221	254	Waco, Killeen and Temple, TXLocal	Local	79
222	336	Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point, NCLocal	Local	79
223	334	Montgomery, Auburn and Dothan, ALLocal	Local	78
224	601	Jackson and central Mississippi, MSLocal	Local	78
225	616	Grand Rapids, MILocal	Local	78
226	332	Manhattan, NYLocal	Local	76
227	309	Peoria and west-central Illinois, ILLocal	Local	75
228	661	The Bakersfield and Lancaster area, CALocal	Local	75
229	714	North Orange County, CALocal	Local	75
230	765	Lafayette and central Indiana, INLocal	Local	75
231	973	Newark, Paterson and Morristown, NJLocal	Local	75
232	361	Corpus Christi, Victoria and Kingsville, TXLocal	Local	72
233	872	Chicago, ILLocal	Local	72
234	984	Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, NCLocal	Local	71
235	228	Biloxi, Gulfport and Pascagoula, MSLocal	Local	70
236	307	Cheyenne and all of Wyoming, WYLocal	Local	70
237	409	Beaumont and Galveston, TXLocal	Local	70
238	586	Warren and Macomb County, MILocal	Local	70
239	628	San Francisco and Marin County, CALocal	Local	70
240	667	Baltimore and the Eastern Shore, MDLocal	Local	70
241	772	Port St. Lucie and the Treasure Coast, FLLocal	Local	69
242	530	Chico, Redding and the northeastern part of California, CALocal	Local	68
243	620	Southern Kansas, KSLocal	Local	68
244	276	Bristol, Martinsville and Abingdon, VALocal	Local	67
245	417	Springfield and Joplin, Missouri, MOLocal	Local	67
246	435	St. George, Logan and most of Utah, UTLocal	Local	67
247	979	Bryan, College Station and Lake Jackson, TXLocal	Local	67
248	681	West Virginia, WVLocal	Local	66
249	725	Las Vegas and Clark County, NVLocal	Local	66
250	574	North-central Indiana, INLocal	Local	65
251	605	Sioux Falls, Rapid City and all of South Dakota, SDLocal	Local	65
252	812	Southern Indiana, INLocal	Local	63
253	785	Topeka and northern Kansas, KSLocal	Local	62
254	945	Dallas, Frisco and Grand Prairie, TXLocal	Local	62
255	651	St. Paul and its suburbs, MNLocal	Local	61
256	225	Baton Rouge, LALocal	Local	60
257	838	Albany and eastern upstate New York, NYLocal	Local	60
258	802	All of Vermont, VTLocal	Local	59
259	959	Hartford and most of Connecticut, CTLocal	Local	59
260	701	Fargo, Bismarck and all of North Dakota, NDLocal	Local	58
261	808	Honolulu and the islands, HILocal	Local	58
262	915	El Paso, TXLocal	Local	58
263	269	Kalamazoo and Battle Creek, MILocal	Local	57
264	657	Anaheim and north Orange County, CALocal	Local	57
265	731	Western Tennessee, TNLocal	Local	57
266	847	The northern and northwest Chicago suburbs, ILLocal	Local	57
267	212	Manhattan, NYLocal	Local	56
268	260	Northeast Indiana, INLocal	Local	56
269	432	The Permian Basin and Trans-Pecos, Texas, TXLocal	Local	56
270	636	St. Charles, O'Fallon and Chesterfield, MOLocal	Local	56
271	641	Mason City, Marshalltown and Ottumwa, IALocal	Local	56
272	563	Davenport, Dubuque and Clinton, IALocal	Local	54
273	859	Lexington and Northern Kentucky, KYLocal	Local	54
274	220	Southeast and central Ohio, OHLocal	Local	53
275	689	Orlando and Central Florida, FLLocal	Local	53
276	718	Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island, NYLocal	Local	53
277	936	Conroe, Huntsville, Lufkin and Nacogdoches, TXLocal	Local	53
278	430	Tyler, Longview and Sherman, TXLocal	Local	52
279	940	Wichita Falls and Denton, TXLocal	Local	52
280	234	Akron, Canton and Youngstown, OHLocal	Local	51
281	445	Philadelphia, PALocal	Local	51
282	479	Fort Smith, Fayetteville and western Arkansas, ARLocal	Local	50
283	831	Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito counties, CALocal	Local	50
284	726	San Antonio, TXLocal	Local	49
285	763	Plymouth, Blaine and Coon Rapids, MNLocal	Local	49
286	320	St. Cloud, Willmar and Alexandria, MNLocal	Local	48
287	952	Bloomington, Burnsville and Edina, MNLocal	Local	48
288	364	Bowling Green and western Kentucky, KYLocal	Local	47
289	223	Harrisburg, Lancaster and York, PALocal	Local	46
290	218	Duluth, Brainerd, Bemidji and Moorhead, MNLocal	Local	45
291	325	Abilene and San Angelo, TXLocal	Local	45
292	442	North San Diego County and the desert, CALocal	Local	45
293	747	San Fernando Valley, CALocal	Local	44
294	380	Columbus and central Ohio, OHLocal	Local	43
295	464	The south and west suburbs of Chicago, ILLocal	Local	43
296	567	Northwest Ohio, OHLocal	Local	43
297	656	Tampa, FLLocal	Local	43
298	331	Aurora, Naperville and Wheaton, ILLocal	Local	42
299	662	Tupelo and northern Mississippi, MSLocal	Local	42
300	337	Lafayette and Lake Charles, LALocal	Local	41
301	448	Pensacola, Tallahassee and Panama City, FLLocal	Local	41
302	458	Southern and eastern Oregon, ORLocal	Local	40
303	507	Rochester, Mankato and southern Minnesota, MNLocal	Local	40
304	647	Ontario, CanadaLocal	Local	40
305	669	San Jose and Santa Clara County, CALocal	Local	40
306	743	Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point, NCLocal	Local	40
307	463	Indianapolis, INLocal	Local	39
308	878	Pittsburgh and its surrounding area, PALocal	Local	39
309	907	All of Alaska, AKLocal	Local	38
310	580	Lawton, Enid and Ardmore, OKLocal	Local	37
311	660	Sedalia, Kirksville and Warrensburg, MOLocal	Local	37
312	351	Lowell, Lawrence and Haverhill, MALocal	Local	36
313	575	Las Cruces and Roswell, NMLocal	Local	36
314	780	Alberta, CanadaLocal	Local	36
315	587	Alberta, CanadaLocal	Local	34
316	930	Southern Indiana, INLocal	Local	34
317	279	Sacramento, CALocal	Local	33
318	659	Birmingham and Tuscaloosa, ALLocal	Local	33
319	905	Ontario, CanadaLocal	Local	33
320	983	Denver and Boulder, COLocal	Local	33
321	326	Dayton and Springfield, OHLocal	Local	32
322	564	Seattle, Olympia and Vancouver, WALocal	Local	32
323	986	Idaho, IDLocal	Local	32
324	272	Scranton, Wilkes-Barre and Williamsport, PALocal	Local	31
325	835	Allentown, Reading and the western Philadelphia suburbs, PALocal	Local	31
326	848	Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean counties, NJLocal	Local	31
327	341	Oakland and the East Bay, CALocal	Local	30
328	934	Suffolk County, Long Island, NYLocal	Local	30
329	985	Houma, Slidell and Hammond, LALocal	Local	30
330	306	Saskatchewan, CanadaLocal	Local	29
331	947	Oakland County, Michigan, MILocal	Local	29
332	472	Fayetteville, Wilmington and Jacksonville, NCLocal	Local	28
333	839	Columbia and central South Carolina, SCLocal	Local	28
334	938	Huntsville, Gadsden and Anniston, ALLocal	Local	28
335	416	Ontario, CanadaLocal	Local	27
336	447	Springfield, Champaign and Decatur, ILLocal	Local	27
337	629	Nashville, TNLocal	Local	27
338	819	Quebec, CanadaLocal	Local	27
339	204	Manitoba, CanadaLocal	Local	26
340	514	Quebec, CanadaLocal	Local	26
341	902	Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, CanadaLocal	Local	26
342	531	Omaha, Lincoln and eastern Nebraska, NELocal	Local	25
343	820	Santa Barbara and Ventura, CALocal	Local	25
344	227	Montgomery County and western Maryland, MDLocal	Local	24
345	403	Alberta, CanadaLocal	Local	24
346	778	British Columbia, CanadaLocal	Local	23
347	308	Western Nebraska, NELocal	Local	22
348	450	Quebec, CanadaLocal	Local	22
349	639	Saskatchewan, CanadaLocal	Local	22
350	779	Rockford, Joliet and northern Illinois, ILLocal	Local	22
351	948	Norfolk, Virginia Beach and Newport News, VALocal	Local	22
352	339	Waltham, Lynn and the communities around Boston, MALocal	Local	21
353	581	Quebec, CanadaLocal	Local	21
354	613	Ontario, CanadaLocal	Local	21
355	826	Roanoke, Harrisonburg and Fredericksburg, VALocal	Local	21
356	226	Ontario, CanadaLocal	Local	20
357	250	British Columbia, CanadaLocal	Local	20
358	289	Ontario, CanadaLocal	Local	20
359	506	New Brunswick, CanadaLocal	Local	20
360	572	Oklahoma City, OKLocal	Local	20
361	769	Jackson and central Mississippi, MSLocal	Local	20
362	854	Charleston, Myrtle Beach and the South Carolina coast, SCLocal	Local	20
363	640	Trenton and Atlantic City, NJLocal	Local	19
364	705	Ontario, CanadaLocal	Local	19
365	709	Newfoundland and Labrador, CanadaLocal	Local	19
366	369	Sonoma and Napa counties, CALocal	Local	18
367	418	Quebec, CanadaLocal	Local	18
368	519	Ontario, CanadaLocal	Local	18
369	840	Ontario, Fontana and Pomona, CALocal	Local	18
370	539	Tulsa and eastern Oklahoma, OKLocal	Local	17
371	343	Ontario, CanadaLocal	Local	16
372	604	British Columbia, CanadaLocal	Local	16
373	437	Ontario, CanadaLocal	Local	15
374	906	Upper Peninsula, MILocal	Local	15
375	825	Alberta, CanadaLocal	Local	14
376	236	British Columbia, CanadaLocal	Local	13
377	431	Manitoba, CanadaLocal	Local	13
378	582	Erie, Altoona, Johnstown and State College, PALocal	Local	13
379	730	Belleville and southern Illinois, ILLocal	Local	13
380	728	Palm Beach County, FLLocal	Local	12
381	939	Puerto Rico, PRLocal	Local	12
382	249	Ontario, CanadaLocal	Local	11
383	283	Cincinnati, OHLocal	Local	11
384	867	Northwest Territories, Yukon and Nunavut, CanadaLocal	Local	11
385	350	The northern San Joaquin Valley and Sierra foothills, CALocal	Local	9
386	787	Puerto Rico, PRLocal	Local	9
387	873	Quebec, CanadaLocal	Local	9
388	365	Ontario, CanadaLocal	Local	8
389	438	Quebec, CanadaLocal	Local	8
390	782	Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, CanadaLocal	Local	8
391	329	Poughkeepsie, Newburgh and Kingston, NYLocal	Local	6
392	363	Nassau County, Long Island, NYLocal	Local	6
393	686	Richmond and central Virginia, VALocal	Local	6
394	807	Ontario, CanadaLocal	Local	5
395	534	Eau Claire, Wausau and northern Wisconsin, WILocal	Local	4
396	548	Ontario, CanadaLocal	Local	4
397	579	Quebec, CanadaLocal	Local	4
398	672	British Columbia, CanadaLocal	Local	4
399	849	Dominican RepublicLocal	Local	4
400	876	JamaicaLocal	Local	4
401	235	Columbia, Jefferson City and eastern Missouri, MOLocal	Local	3
402	345	Cayman IslandsLocal	Local	3
403	368	Alberta, CanadaLocal	Local	3
404	809	Dominican RepublicLocal	Local	3
405	263	Quebec, CanadaLocal	Local	2
406	529	Special-use code, tied to no placeSpecial use	Special use	2
407	557	St. Louis, MOLocal	Local	2
408	257	British Columbia, CanadaLocal	Local	1
409	324	Jacksonville, FLLocal	Local	1
410	327	Jonesboro, Pine Bluff and northern, eastern and southern Arkansas, ARLocal	Local	1
411	340	The U.S. Virgin Islands, VILocal	Local	1
412	357	Fresno and the San Joaquin Valley, CALocal	Local	1
413	457	Shreveport, Monroe and Alexandria, LALocal	Local	1
414	465	Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island, NYLocal	Local	1
415	468	Quebec, CanadaLocal	Local	1
416	521	Special-use code, tied to no placeSpecial use	Special use	1
417	524	Special-use code, tied to no placeSpecial use	Special use	1
418	525	Special-use code, tied to no placeSpecial use	Special use	1
419	533	Special-use code, tied to no placeSpecial use	Special use	1
420	542	Special-use code, tied to no placeSpecial use	Special use	1
421	622	Special-use code, tied to no placeSpecial use	Special use	1
422	624	Buffalo, Niagara Falls and Jamestown, NYLocal	Local	1
423	658	JamaicaLocal	Local	1
424	679	Detroit, MILocal	Local	1
425	738	Los Angeles, CALocal	Local	1
426	742	Ontario, CanadaLocal	Local	1
427	753	Ontario, CanadaLocal	Local	1
428	829	Dominican RepublicLocal	Local	1
429	861	Peoria and west-central Illinois, ILLocal	Local	1
430	869	St. Kitts and NevisLocal	Local	1
431	975	Kansas City and northwestern Missouri, MOLocal	Local	1

Another 87 three-digit prefixes in the caller IDs are not assigned area codes (555 and 000 are the most common), with 139 complaints between them. They are left out of the list.

A complaint count shows what people reported, not who is a scammer.

A complaint is one person's report.

Each row is a complaint filed with the FCC's Consumer Help Center. The FCC says it does not verify the facts alleged in these complaints.

The area code is the start of the number shown on the phone.

Caller ID can be faked and a mobile number can be kept after a move, so the code says what was displayed, not where the caller was.

The counts are not adjusted for size.

Only 43% of complaints include a caller ID number, and the ranking does not adjust for population or for how many numbers a code holds.

These are the questions people ask about spam calls and area codes, answered from the data.

303 (Denver and Boulder) was named on the most: 2,219 of the 54,074 complaints that gave a caller ID number, from October 2025 to September 2026. Among the other local codes, 202 (Washington, D.C.) had 823 and 630 (Naperville, Aurora and the western suburbs of Chicago) had 707.

18%: 9,731 of the 54,074 caller ID numbers started with 800, 833, 844, 855, 866, 877 or 888. The most named was 833 with 2,041, then 855 with 1,668.

No. A complaint is one person's report, and the FCC says it does not verify the facts alleged in them. Caller ID can also be faked, so the number someone reports is not always the line that really called. To look at one number, use the free spam number lookup on this site.

50% of the 43,420 complaints that named a US area code were filed by someone in that code's own state. It varies by code: 98% of the 303 complaints came from Colorado, against 2% of the 202 complaints from the District of Columbia.

File a complaint with the FCC's Consumer Help Center at consumercomplaints.fcc.gov. Complaints filed there are the ones counted on this page.

They cover October 2025 to September 2026, full months only. They were read from the FCC's open data on October 26, 2026, when the newest complaint in the file was dated October 25, 2026.

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