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How many spam calls do people in Delaware report? They filed 319 FCC complaints in 12 months, 30th most per person.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people in Delaware filed 319 unwanted-call complaints with the FCC, or 30.1 for every 100,000 residents, which ranks 30th among the 50 states and DC. 38 of the 121 complaints that gave a caller ID (31%) named one area code, 302 (Delaware).
- 319unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC by people in Delaware, October 2025 to September 2026
- 30.1complaints for every 100,000 residents, 30th of 51 (the whole country: 36.6)
- 302the area code people there named most, on 38 complaints (Delaware)
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 Delaware reported area code 302 most, and 1 of the 10 busiest area codes is in Delaware.
Each row counts the complaints from people in Delaware whose caller ID started with that code. 4 codes in the list are toll-free and belong to no place. Together these 10 codes account for 67 of the 121 complaints that gave a caller ID.
| Rank | Code | Where it is | In Delaware? | Complaints |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 302 | DelawareIn Delaware | Yes | 38 |
| 2 | 855 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 5 |
| 3 | 216 | Cleveland, OHIn OH | No, OH | 4 |
| 4 | 833 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 4 |
| 5 | 877 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 4 |
| 6 | 866 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 3 |
| 7 | 989 | Saginaw, Bay City and Mount Pleasant, MIIn MI | No, MI | 3 |
| 8 | 201 | Hudson and Bergen counties, NJIn NJ | No, NJ | 2 |
| 9 | 202 | Washington, D.C.In DC | No, DC | 2 |
| 10 | 304 | West VirginiaIn WV | No, WV | 2 |
Complaints from Delaware peaked at 49 in August 2026, against 20 in January 2026.
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 Delaware by month
Unwanted-call complaints filed from Delaware per month, October 2025 to September 2026.
- Complaints filed from Delaware
- Months the FCC file is thin
| Month | All complaints |
|---|---|
| October 2025 | 0 |
| November 2025 | 14 |
| December 2025 | 32 |
| January 2026 | 20 |
| February 2026 | 22 |
| March 2026 | 27 |
| April 2026 | 20 |
| May 2026 | 28 |
| June 2026 | 31 |
| July 2026 | 47 |
| August 2026 | 49 |
| September 2026 | 29 |
Live callers make up 34% of the complaints from Delaware, above the 26% across the country.
The FCC files robocalls, live callers and texts under one issue, "Unwanted Calls". The bar shows how the 319 complaints from Delaware split by what the person says reached them.
What reached people in Delaware
How the 319 complaints from Delaware split.
- Live caller34% · 109 complaints
- Prerecorded call33% · 104 complaints
- Text message15% · 48 complaints
- Kind not stated18% · 58 complaints
Across the country the split is prerecorded call 41%, live caller 26%, text message 15%, kind not stated 17%.
Fewer than half of the US numbers people in Delaware reported carry a Delaware area code, 38 of 99 (38%), against 50% across the country.
Of 121 complaints that gave a caller ID, 38 named a Delaware code, 61 a code from another state, 18 a toll-free code and 4 something else, such as a special-use code, a number abroad or a prefix that is not assigned.
Where the numbers people in Delaware reported came from
Where the 121 caller ID numbers from Delaware came from.
Delaware ranks 30th of 51 for complaints per 100,000 people, between Missouri and Utah.
Colorado leads the list at 109.8 and North Dakota is last at 13.8. The 50 states and DC together file 36.6.
Delaware next to the states ranked around it
Complaints for every 100,000 residents, the states ranked next to Delaware.
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319 unwanted-call complaints from October 2025 to September 2026, which is 30.1 for every 100,000 residents. That ranks 30th among the 50 states and DC per person and 44th by total count.
302 (Delaware) was named on 38 complaints, 31% of the complaints that gave a caller ID number. Next were 855 (toll-free, tied to no place) with 5 and 216 (Cleveland, Ohio) with 4.
Not mostly. 38 of the 99 of the complaints that named a US area code carried a Delaware code, against 50% across the country. After Delaware, the area codes named most belonged to Florida (6), California (5) and New Jersey (5). Caller ID can be faked, so a code shows what appeared on the phone, not where the caller was.
33% were about prerecorded calls, 34% about a live caller and 15% about text messages, and 18% did not say. Across the country the split is 41%, 26% and 15%.
August 2026, with 49 complaints. The quietest full month was January 2026, with 20. October 2025 and November 2025 are left out of that comparison because the FCC file is thin for them.
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 Delaware (1,059,952 residents) puts every state on one scale, which is why Delaware ranks 30th per person and 44th 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/delaware
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