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How many spam calls do people in Alabama report? They filed 1,919 FCC complaints in 12 months, 16th most per person.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people in Alabama filed 1,919 unwanted-call complaints with the FCC, or 37.0 for every 100,000 residents, which ranks 16th among the 50 states and DC. The busiest month was September 2026, with 249 complaints.
- 1,919unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC by people in Alabama, October 2025 to September 2026
- 37.0complaints for every 100,000 residents, 16th of 51 (the whole country: 36.6)
- 205the area code people there named most, on 111 complaints (Birmingham, Alabama)
Source: Federal Communications Commission, CGB - Consumer Complaints Data (dataset 3xyp-aqkj), issue "Unwanted Calls", read on November 4, 2026. Population: U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025. All sources.
People in Alabama reported area code 205 most, and 4 of the 10 busiest area codes are in Alabama.
Each row counts the complaints from people in Alabama whose caller ID started with that code. 6 codes in the list are toll-free and belong to no place. Together these 10 codes account for 379 of the 673 complaints that gave a caller ID.
| Rank | Code | Where it is | In Alabama? | Complaints |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 205 | BirminghamIn Alabama | Yes | 111 |
| 2 | 256 | Huntsville, Gadsden and AnnistonIn Alabama | Yes | 54 |
| 3 | 334 | Montgomery, Auburn and DothanIn Alabama | Yes | 43 |
| 4 | 251 | Mobile and the surrounding areaIn Alabama | Yes | 35 |
| 5 | 833 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 34 |
| 6 | 866 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 30 |
| 7 | 855 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 24 |
| 8 | 844 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 20 |
| 9 | 877 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 14 |
| 10 | 888 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 14 |
Monthly complaints from Alabama rose from 111 in December to 249 in September.
October 2025 and November 2025 are shaded and dotted because the FCC file holds only 323 and 16,267 complaints of any kind in those months, against about 29,400 in a usual one.
Complaints from Alabama by month
Unwanted-call complaints filed from Alabama per month, October 2025 to September 2026.
- Complaints filed from Alabama
- Months the FCC file is thin
| Month | All complaints |
|---|---|
| October 2025 | 0 |
| November 2025 | 104 |
| December 2025 | 111 |
| January 2026 | 218 |
| February 2026 | 230 |
| March 2026 | 171 |
| April 2026 | 142 |
| May 2026 | 162 |
| June 2026 | 139 |
| July 2026 | 173 |
| August 2026 | 220 |
| September 2026 | 249 |
Prerecorded calls are the biggest group of complaints from Alabama, at 41% against 41% across the country.
The FCC files robocalls, live callers and texts under one issue, "Unwanted Calls". The bar shows how the 1,919 complaints from Alabama split by what the person says reached them.
What reached people in Alabama
How the 1,919 complaints from Alabama split.
- Prerecorded call41% · 791 complaints
- Live caller25% · 478 complaints
- Text message12% · 239 complaints
- Kind not stated21% · 411 complaints
Across the country the split is prerecorded call 41%, live caller 26%, text message 15%, kind not stated 17%.
About half of the US numbers people in Alabama reported carry an Alabama area code, 256 of 514 (50%), against 50% across the country.
Of 673 complaints that gave a caller ID, 256 named an Alabama code, 258 a code from another state, 140 a toll-free code and 19 something else, such as a special-use code, a number abroad or a prefix that is not assigned.
Where the numbers people in Alabama reported came from
Where the 673 caller ID numbers from Alabama came from.
Alabama ranks 16th of 51 for complaints per 100,000 people, between Nevada and Illinois.
Colorado leads the list at 109.8 and North Dakota is last at 13.8. The 50 states and DC together file 36.6.
Alabama next to the states ranked around it
Complaints for every 100,000 residents, the states ranked next to Alabama.
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1,919 unwanted-call complaints from October 2025 to September 2026, which is 37.0 for every 100,000 residents. That ranks 16th among the 50 states and DC per person and 21st by total count.
205 (Birmingham, Alabama) was named on 111 complaints, 16% of the complaints that gave a caller ID number. Next were 256 (Huntsville, Gadsden and Anniston, Alabama) with 54 and 334 (Montgomery, Auburn and Dothan, Alabama) with 43.
About half do. 50% of the complaints that named a US area code carried an Alabama code, against 50% across the country. After Alabama, the area codes named most belonged to Florida (26), California (25) and New York (21). Caller ID can be faked, so a code shows what appeared on the phone, not where the caller was.
41% were about prerecorded calls, 25% about a live caller and 12% about text messages, and 21% did not say. Across the country the split is 41%, 26% and 15%.
About the same. People in Alabama filed 642 complaints in July to September 2026, 4% more than the 619 in January to March 2026. For the whole country the change over the same months was up 28%.
File a complaint with the FCC's Consumer Help Center at consumercomplaints.fcc.gov. Complaints filed there are the ones counted on this page, listed by the state of the person who filed. To report a scam or fraud call, use ReportFraud.ftc.gov.
A state with more people files more complaints just by being bigger. Dividing by the Census Bureau's July 1, 2025 estimate for Alabama (5,193,088 residents) puts every state on one scale, which is why Alabama ranks 16th per person and 21st by total count.
Every number on this page comes from two public sources.
The complaints come from the FCC.
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 November 4, 2026.
The population comes from the Census Bureau.
U.S. Census Bureau, Population Division, Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for the United States, Regions, States, District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico: April 1, 2020 to July 1, 2025 (NST-EST2025-POP), Vintage 2025 estimate for July 1, 2025, released January 2026, checked November 2026.
Data: FCC Consumer Complaints, Oct 2025 to Sep 2026, analysed by ExpressNumber. www.expressnumber.com/spam-calls-by-state/alabama
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