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How many spam calls do people in Kentucky report? They filed 1,211 FCC complaints in 12 months, 39th most per person.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people in Kentucky filed 1,211 unwanted-call complaints with the FCC, or 26.3 for every 100,000 residents, which ranks 39th among the 50 states and DC. The busiest month was August 2026, with 167 complaints.
- 1,211unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC by people in Kentucky, October 2025 to September 2026
- 26.3complaints for every 100,000 residents, 39th of 51 (the whole country: 36.6)
- 606the area code people there named most, on 63 complaints (Ashland, Pikeville and eastern Kentucky)
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 Kentucky reported area code 606 most, and 4 of the 10 busiest area codes are in Kentucky.
Each row counts the complaints from people in Kentucky 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 276 of the 550 complaints that gave a caller ID.
| Rank | Code | Where it is | In Kentucky? | Complaints |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 606 | Ashland, Pikeville and eastern KentuckyIn Kentucky | Yes | 63 |
| 2 | 502 | LouisvilleIn Kentucky | Yes | 57 |
| 3 | 270 | Bowling Green and western KentuckyIn Kentucky | Yes | 37 |
| 4 | 859 | Lexington and Northern KentuckyIn Kentucky | Yes | 33 |
| 5 | 877 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 20 |
| 6 | 833 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 17 |
| 7 | 863 | Polk County and the Florida HeartlandIn FL | No, FL | 15 |
| 8 | 855 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 12 |
| 9 | 866 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 11 |
| 10 | 888 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 11 |
Monthly complaints from Kentucky rose from 75 in April to 167 in August.
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 Kentucky by month
Unwanted-call complaints filed from Kentucky per month, October 2025 to September 2026.
- Complaints filed from Kentucky
- Months the FCC file is thin
| Month | All complaints |
|---|---|
| October 2025 | 0 |
| November 2025 | 56 |
| December 2025 | 107 |
| January 2026 | 117 |
| February 2026 | 94 |
| March 2026 | 107 |
| April 2026 | 75 |
| May 2026 | 101 |
| June 2026 | 128 |
| July 2026 | 151 |
| August 2026 | 167 |
| September 2026 | 108 |
Prerecorded calls make up 50% of the complaints from Kentucky, above the 41% across the country.
The FCC files robocalls, live callers and texts under one issue, "Unwanted Calls". The bar shows how the 1,211 complaints from Kentucky split by what the person says reached them.
What reached people in Kentucky
How the 1,211 complaints from Kentucky split.
- Prerecorded call50% · 602 complaints
- Live caller26% · 313 complaints
- Text message10% · 125 complaints
- Kind not stated14% · 171 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 Kentucky reported carry a Kentucky area code, 195 of 458 (43%), against 50% across the country.
Of 550 complaints that gave a caller ID, 195 named a Kentucky code, 263 a code from another state, 81 a toll-free code and 11 something else, such as a special-use code, a number abroad or a prefix that is not assigned.
Where the numbers people in Kentucky reported came from
Where the 550 caller ID numbers from Kentucky came from.
Kentucky ranks 39th of 51 for complaints per 100,000 people, between Iowa and Indiana.
Colorado leads the list at 109.8 and North Dakota is last at 13.8. The 50 states and DC together file 36.6.
Kentucky next to the states ranked around it
Complaints for every 100,000 residents, the states ranked next to Kentucky.
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1,211 unwanted-call complaints from October 2025 to September 2026, which is 26.3 for every 100,000 residents. That ranks 39th among the 50 states and DC per person and 28th by total count.
606 (Ashland, Pikeville and eastern Kentucky) was named on 63 complaints, 11% of the complaints that gave a caller ID number. Next were 502 (Louisville, Kentucky) with 57 and 270 (Bowling Green and western Kentucky) with 37.
Not mostly. 43% of the complaints that named a US area code carried a Kentucky code, against 50% across the country. After Kentucky, the area codes named most belonged to Florida (37), New York (36) and Virginia (23). Caller ID can be faked, so a code shows what appeared on the phone, not where the caller was.
50% were about prerecorded calls, 26% about a live caller and 10% about text messages, and 14% did not say. Across the country the split is 41%, 26% and 15%.
Yes. People in Kentucky filed 426 complaints in July to September 2026, 34% more than the 318 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 Kentucky (4,606,864 residents) puts every state on one scale, which is why Kentucky ranks 39th per person and 28th 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/kentucky
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