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How many spam calls do people in Georgia report? They filed 4,582 FCC complaints in 12 months, 12th most per person.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people in Georgia filed 4,582 unwanted-call complaints with the FCC, or 40.5 for every 100,000 residents, which ranks 12th among the 50 states and DC. 28% of the 1,821 caller IDs people reported were toll-free numbers, against 18% across the country.
- 4,582unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC by people in Georgia, October 2025 to September 2026
- 40.5complaints for every 100,000 residents, 12th of 51 (the whole country: 36.6)
- 770the area code people there named most, on 107 complaints (Metro Atlanta, outside the city of Atlanta, Georgia)
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 Georgia reported area code 770 most, and 5 of the 10 busiest area codes are in Georgia.
Each row counts the complaints from people in Georgia 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 853 of the 1,821 complaints that gave a caller ID.
| Rank | Code | Where it is | In Georgia? | Complaints |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 770 | Metro Atlanta, outside the city of AtlantaIn Georgia | Yes | 107 |
| 2 | 855 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 89 |
| 3 | 404 | AtlantaIn Georgia | Yes | 88 |
| 4 | 678 | Metro AtlantaIn Georgia | Yes | 85 |
| 5 | 888 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 85 |
| 6 | 866 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 82 |
| 7 | 706 | Augusta, Columbus and AthensIn Georgia | Yes | 81 |
| 8 | 877 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 80 |
| 9 | 833 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 79 |
| 10 | 470 | Metro AtlantaIn Georgia | Yes | 77 |
Monthly complaints from Georgia ran from 301 in April to 513 in January.
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 Georgia by month
Unwanted-call complaints filed from Georgia per month, October 2025 to September 2026.
- Complaints filed from Georgia
- Months the FCC file is thin
| Month | All complaints |
|---|---|
| October 2025 | 2 |
| November 2025 | 260 |
| December 2025 | 483 |
| January 2026 | 513 |
| February 2026 | 360 |
| March 2026 | 370 |
| April 2026 | 301 |
| May 2026 | 397 |
| June 2026 | 493 |
| July 2026 | 497 |
| August 2026 | 447 |
| September 2026 | 459 |
Prerecorded calls are the biggest group of complaints from Georgia, at 38% against 41% across the country.
The FCC files robocalls, live callers and texts under one issue, "Unwanted Calls". The bar shows how the 4,582 complaints from Georgia split by what the person says reached them.
What reached people in Georgia
How the 4,582 complaints from Georgia split.
- Prerecorded call38% · 1,746 complaints
- Live caller31% · 1,411 complaints
- Text message14% · 662 complaints
- Kind not stated17% · 763 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 Georgia reported carry a Georgia area code, 597 of 1,280 (47%), against 50% across the country.
Of 1,821 complaints that gave a caller ID, 597 named a Georgia code, 683 a code from another state, 502 a toll-free code and 39 something else, such as a special-use code, a number abroad or a prefix that is not assigned.
Where the numbers people in Georgia reported came from
Where the 1,821 caller ID numbers from Georgia came from.
Georgia ranks 12th of 51 for complaints per 100,000 people, between South Carolina and Pennsylvania.
Colorado leads the list at 109.8 and North Dakota is last at 13.8. The 50 states and DC together file 36.6.
Georgia next to the states ranked around it
Complaints for every 100,000 residents, the states ranked next to Georgia.
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4,582 unwanted-call complaints from October 2025 to September 2026, which is 40.5 for every 100,000 residents. That ranks 12th among the 50 states and DC per person and eighth by total count.
770 (Metro Atlanta, outside the city of Atlanta, Georgia) was named on 107 complaints, 6% of the complaints that gave a caller ID number. Next were 855 (toll-free, tied to no place) with 89 and 404 (Atlanta, Georgia) with 88.
About half do. 47% of the complaints that named a US area code carried a Georgia code, against 50% across the country. After Georgia, the area codes named most belonged to Florida (72), California (63) and New York (62). Caller ID can be faked, so a code shows what appeared on the phone, not where the caller was.
38% were about prerecorded calls, 31% about a live caller and 14% about text messages, and 17% did not say. Across the country the split is 41%, 26% and 15%.
Yes. People in Georgia filed 1,403 complaints in July to September 2026, 13% more than the 1,243 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 Georgia (11,302,748 residents) puts every state on one scale, which is why Georgia ranks 12th per person and eighth 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/georgia
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