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How many spam calls do people in Iowa report? They filed 885 FCC complaints in 12 months, 38th most per person.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people in Iowa filed 885 unwanted-call complaints with the FCC, or 27.3 for every 100,000 residents, which ranks 38th among the 50 states and DC. 63% of the 327 numbers people reported with a US area code carried one from Iowa, against 50% across the country.
- 885unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC by people in Iowa, October 2025 to September 2026
- 27.3complaints for every 100,000 residents, 38th of 51 (the whole country: 36.6)
- 515the area code people there named most, on 78 complaints (Des Moines and Ames, Iowa)
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 Iowa reported area code 515 most, and 5 of the 10 busiest area codes are in Iowa.
Each row counts the complaints from people in Iowa 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 250 of the 383 complaints that gave a caller ID.
| Rank | Code | Where it is | In Iowa? | Complaints |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 515 | Des Moines and AmesIn Iowa | Yes | 78 |
| 2 | 712 | Sioux City and Council BluffsIn Iowa | Yes | 70 |
| 3 | 319 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and WaterlooIn Iowa | Yes | 28 |
| 4 | 563 | Davenport, Dubuque and ClintonIn Iowa | Yes | 15 |
| 5 | 641 | Mason City, Marshalltown and OttumwaIn Iowa | Yes | 14 |
| 6 | 833 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 13 |
| 7 | 844 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 10 |
| 8 | 855 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 8 |
| 9 | 866 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 7 |
| 10 | 877 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 7 |
Complaints from Iowa peaked at 115 in December 2025, against 64 in May 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 Iowa by month
Unwanted-call complaints filed from Iowa per month, October 2025 to September 2026.
- Complaints filed from Iowa
- Months the FCC file is thin
| Month | All complaints |
|---|---|
| October 2025 | 0 |
| November 2025 | 54 |
| December 2025 | 115 |
| January 2026 | 69 |
| February 2026 | 73 |
| March 2026 | 94 |
| April 2026 | 72 |
| May 2026 | 64 |
| June 2026 | 65 |
| July 2026 | 87 |
| August 2026 | 96 |
| September 2026 | 96 |
Prerecorded calls make up 45% of the complaints from Iowa, above the 41% across the country.
The FCC files robocalls, live callers and texts under one issue, "Unwanted Calls". The bar shows how the 885 complaints from Iowa split by what the person says reached them.
What reached people in Iowa
How the 885 complaints from Iowa split.
- Prerecorded call45% · 400 complaints
- Live caller26% · 233 complaints
- Text message13% · 116 complaints
- Kind not stated15% · 136 complaints
Across the country the split is prerecorded call 41%, live caller 26%, text message 15%, kind not stated 17%.
Most of the US numbers people in Iowa reported carry an Iowa area code, 205 of 327 (63%), against 50% across the country.
Of 383 complaints that gave a caller ID, 205 named an Iowa code, 122 a code from another state, 53 a toll-free code and 3 something else, such as a special-use code, a number abroad or a prefix that is not assigned.
Where the numbers people in Iowa reported came from
Where the 383 caller ID numbers from Iowa came from.
Iowa ranks 38th of 51 for complaints per 100,000 people, between Alaska and Kentucky.
Colorado leads the list at 109.8 and North Dakota is last at 13.8. The 50 states and DC together file 36.6.
Iowa next to the states ranked around it
Complaints for every 100,000 residents, the states ranked next to Iowa.
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885 unwanted-call complaints from October 2025 to September 2026, which is 27.3 for every 100,000 residents. That ranks 38th among the 50 states and DC per person and 35th by total count.
515 (Des Moines and Ames, Iowa) was named on 78 complaints, 20% of the complaints that gave a caller ID number. Next were 712 (Sioux City and Council Bluffs, Iowa) with 70 and 319 (Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and Waterloo) with 28.
Mostly. 63% of the complaints that named a US area code carried an Iowa code, against 50% across the country. After Iowa, the area codes named most belonged to New York (16), California (9) and Texas (9). Caller ID can be faked, so a code shows what appeared on the phone, not where the caller was.
45% were about prerecorded calls, 26% about a live caller and 13% about text messages, and 15% did not say. Across the country the split is 41%, 26% and 15%.
Yes. People in Iowa filed 279 complaints in July to September 2026, 18% more than the 236 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 Iowa (3,238,387 residents) puts every state on one scale, which is why Iowa ranks 38th per person and 35th 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/iowa
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