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Do people in Arizona report more spam calls than most states? They filed 3,889 FCC complaints in 12 months, third most per person.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people in Arizona filed 3,889 unwanted-call complaints with the FCC, or 51.0 for every 100,000 residents, the third-highest rate among the 50 states and DC. The busiest month was September 2026, with 509 complaints.
- 3,889unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC by people in Arizona, October 2025 to September 2026
- 51.0complaints for every 100,000 residents, third of 51 (the whole country: 36.6)
- 480the area code people there named most, on 239 complaints (Phoenix, Mesa and Scottsdale, Arizona)
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 Arizona reported area code 480 most, and 5 of the 10 busiest area codes are in Arizona.
Each row counts the complaints from people in Arizona whose caller ID started with that code. 5 codes in the list are toll-free and belong to no place. Together these 10 codes account for 1,073 of the 1,885 complaints that gave a caller ID.
| Rank | Code | Where it is | In Arizona? | Complaints |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 480 | Phoenix, Mesa and ScottsdaleIn Arizona | Yes | 239 |
| 2 | 928 | Arizona outside Phoenix and TucsonIn Arizona | Yes | 131 |
| 3 | 602 | PhoenixIn Arizona | Yes | 117 |
| 4 | 520 | Tucson and southern ArizonaIn Arizona | Yes | 116 |
| 5 | 833 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 100 |
| 6 | 855 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 96 |
| 7 | 877 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 86 |
| 8 | 623 | Glendale and the West Valley of PhoenixIn Arizona | Yes | 67 |
| 9 | 844 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 61 |
| 10 | 888 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 60 |
Monthly complaints from Arizona rose from 246 in December to 509 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 Arizona by month
Unwanted-call complaints filed from Arizona per month, October 2025 to September 2026.
- Complaints filed from Arizona
- Months the FCC file is thin
| Month | All complaints |
|---|---|
| October 2025 | 1 |
| November 2025 | 164 |
| December 2025 | 246 |
| January 2026 | 329 |
| February 2026 | 323 |
| March 2026 | 428 |
| April 2026 | 329 |
| May 2026 | 315 |
| June 2026 | 368 |
| July 2026 | 449 |
| August 2026 | 428 |
| September 2026 | 509 |
Prerecorded calls are the biggest group of complaints from Arizona, at 43% against 41% across the country.
The FCC files robocalls, live callers and texts under one issue, "Unwanted Calls". The bar shows how the 3,889 complaints from Arizona split by what the person says reached them.
What reached people in Arizona
How the 3,889 complaints from Arizona split.
- Prerecorded call43% · 1,657 complaints
- Live caller26% · 1,007 complaints
- Text message16% · 634 complaints
- Kind not stated15% · 591 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 Arizona reported carry an Arizona area code, 670 of 1,406 (48%), against 50% across the country.
Of 1,885 complaints that gave a caller ID, 670 named an Arizona code, 736 a code from another state, 460 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 Arizona reported came from
Where the 1,885 caller ID numbers from Arizona came from.
Arizona ranks third of 51 for complaints per 100,000 people, between the District of Columbia and Washington.
Colorado leads the list at 109.8 and North Dakota is last at 13.8. The 50 states and DC together file 36.6.
Arizona next to the states ranked around it
Complaints for every 100,000 residents, the states ranked next to Arizona.
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3,889 unwanted-call complaints from October 2025 to September 2026, which is 51.0 for every 100,000 residents. That ranks third among the 50 states and DC per person and 11th by total count.
480 (Phoenix, Mesa and Scottsdale, Arizona) was named on 239 complaints, 13% of the complaints that gave a caller ID number. Next were 928 (Arizona outside Phoenix and Tucson) with 131 and 602 (Phoenix, Arizona) with 117.
About half do. 48% of the complaints that named a US area code carried an Arizona code, against 50% across the country. After Arizona, the area codes named most belonged to California (111), New York (61) and Florida (57). Caller ID can be faked, so a code shows what appeared on the phone, not where the caller was.
43% were about prerecorded calls, 26% about a live caller and 16% about text messages, and 15% did not say. Across the country the split is 41%, 26% and 15%.
Yes. People in Arizona filed 1,386 complaints in July to September 2026, 28% more than the 1,080 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 Arizona (7,623,818 residents) puts every state on one scale, which is why Arizona ranks third per person and 11th 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/arizona
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