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Do people in Hawaii report fewer spam calls than most states? They filed 226 FCC complaints in 12 months, second fewest per person.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people in Hawaii filed 226 unwanted-call complaints with the FCC, or 15.8 for every 100,000 residents, the second-lowest rate among the 50 states and DC. Only 17 of the 63 numbers people reported with a US area code carried one from Hawaii, against 50% across the country.
- 226unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC by people in Hawaii, October 2025 to September 2026
- 15.8complaints for every 100,000 residents, 50th of 51 (the whole country: 36.6)
- 808the area code people there named most, on 17 complaints (Honolulu and the islands, Hawaii)
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 Hawaii reported area code 808 most, and 1 of the 10 busiest area codes is in Hawaii.
Each row counts the complaints from people in Hawaii 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 40 of the 76 complaints that gave a caller ID.
| Rank | Code | Where it is | In Hawaii? | Complaints |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 808 | Honolulu and the islandsIn Hawaii | Yes | 17 |
| 2 | 636 | St. Charles, O'Fallon and Chesterfield, MOIn MO | No, MO | 3 |
| 3 | 800 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 3 |
| 4 | 818 | San Fernando Valley, CAIn CA | No, CA | 3 |
| 5 | 855 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 3 |
| 6 | 877 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 3 |
| 7 | 502 | Louisville, KYIn KY | No, KY | 2 |
| 8 | 616 | Grand Rapids, MIIn MI | No, MI | 2 |
| 9 | 702 | Las Vegas, NVIn NV | No, NV | 2 |
| 10 | 833 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 2 |
Complaints from Hawaii peaked at 37 in September 2026, against 15 in December 2025.
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 Hawaii by month
Unwanted-call complaints filed from Hawaii per month, October 2025 to September 2026.
- Complaints filed from Hawaii
- Months the FCC file is thin
| Month | All complaints |
|---|---|
| October 2025 | 0 |
| November 2025 | 14 |
| December 2025 | 15 |
| January 2026 | 17 |
| February 2026 | 16 |
| March 2026 | 22 |
| April 2026 | 22 |
| May 2026 | 30 |
| June 2026 | 17 |
| July 2026 | 20 |
| August 2026 | 16 |
| September 2026 | 37 |
Prerecorded calls still lead the complaints from Hawaii at 31%, below the 41% across the country.
The FCC files robocalls, live callers and texts under one issue, "Unwanted Calls". The bar shows how the 226 complaints from Hawaii split by what the person says reached them.
What reached people in Hawaii
How the 226 complaints from Hawaii split.
- Prerecorded call31% · 69 complaints
- Live caller24% · 54 complaints
- Text message23% · 53 complaints
- Kind not stated22% · 50 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 Hawaii reported carry a Hawaii area code, 17 of 63 (27%), against 50% across the country.
Of 76 complaints that gave a caller ID, 17 named a Hawaii code, 46 a code from another state, 13 a toll-free code and 0 something else, such as a special-use code, a number abroad or a prefix that is not assigned.
Where the numbers people in Hawaii reported came from
Where the 76 caller ID numbers from Hawaii came from.
Hawaii ranks 50th of 51 for complaints per 100,000 people, between Vermont and North Dakota.
Colorado leads the list at 109.8 and North Dakota is last at 13.8. The 50 states and DC together file 36.6.
Hawaii next to the states ranked around it
Complaints for every 100,000 residents, the states ranked next to Hawaii.
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226 unwanted-call complaints from October 2025 to September 2026, which is 15.8 for every 100,000 residents. That ranks 50th among the 50 states and DC per person and 47th by total count.
808 (Honolulu and the islands, Hawaii) was named on 17 complaints, 17 of the 76 of the complaints that gave a caller ID number. Next were 636 (St. Charles, O'Fallon and Chesterfield, Missouri) with 3 and 800 (toll-free, tied to no place) with 3.
Not mostly. 17 of the 63 of the complaints that named a US area code carried a Hawaii code, against 50% across the country. After Hawaii, the area codes named most belonged to California (10), Texas (6) and Pennsylvania (4). Caller ID can be faked, so a code shows what appeared on the phone, not where the caller was.
31% were about prerecorded calls, 24% about a live caller and 23% about text messages, and 22% did not say. Across the country the split is 41%, 26% and 15%.
September 2026, with 37 complaints. The quietest full month was December 2025, with 15. 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 Hawaii (1,432,820 residents) puts every state on one scale, which is why Hawaii ranks 50th per person and 47th 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/hawaii
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