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Do people in Louisiana report fewer spam calls than most states? They filed 1,146 FCC complaints in 12 months, ninth fewest per person.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people in Louisiana filed 1,146 unwanted-call complaints with the FCC, or 24.8 for every 100,000 residents, which ranks 43rd among the 50 states and DC. Only 37% of the 362 numbers people reported with a US area code carried one from Louisiana, against 50% across the country.
- 1,146unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC by people in Louisiana, October 2025 to September 2026
- 24.8complaints for every 100,000 residents, 43rd of 51 (the whole country: 36.6)
- 504the area code people there named most, on 43 complaints (New Orleans, Louisiana)
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 Louisiana reported area code 504 most, and 5 of the 10 busiest area codes are in Louisiana.
Each row counts the complaints from people in Louisiana whose caller ID started with that code. 3 codes in the list are toll-free and belong to no place. Together these 10 codes account for 197 of the 418 complaints that gave a caller ID.
| Rank | Code | Where it is | In Louisiana? | Complaints |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 504 | New OrleansIn Louisiana | Yes | 43 |
| 2 | 225 | Baton RougeIn Louisiana | Yes | 31 |
| 3 | 318 | Shreveport, Monroe and AlexandriaIn Louisiana | Yes | 26 |
| 4 | 337 | Lafayette and Lake CharlesIn Louisiana | Yes | 22 |
| 5 | 301 | Montgomery County and western MarylandIn MD | No, MD | 18 |
| 6 | 571 | Northern VirginiaIn VA | No, VA | 14 |
| 7 | 985 | Houma, Slidell and HammondIn Louisiana | Yes | 12 |
| 8 | 833 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 11 |
| 9 | 877 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 11 |
| 10 | 866 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 9 |
Monthly complaints from Louisiana rose from 65 in March to 147 in September.
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 Louisiana by month
Unwanted-call complaints filed from Louisiana per month, October 2025 to September 2026.
- Complaints filed from Louisiana
- Months the FCC file is thin
| Month | All complaints |
|---|---|
| October 2025 | 2 |
| November 2025 | 93 |
| December 2025 | 85 |
| January 2026 | 96 |
| February 2026 | 81 |
| March 2026 | 65 |
| April 2026 | 111 |
| May 2026 | 124 |
| June 2026 | 115 |
| July 2026 | 94 |
| August 2026 | 133 |
| September 2026 | 147 |
Prerecorded calls still lead the complaints from Louisiana at 33%, below the 41% across the country.
The FCC files robocalls, live callers and texts under one issue, "Unwanted Calls". The bar shows how the 1,146 complaints from Louisiana split by what the person says reached them.
What reached people in Louisiana
How the 1,146 complaints from Louisiana split.
- Prerecorded call33% · 373 complaints
- Live caller28% · 319 complaints
- Text message19% · 219 complaints
- Kind not stated21% · 235 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 Louisiana reported carry a Louisiana area code, 134 of 362 (37%), against 50% across the country.
Of 418 complaints that gave a caller ID, 134 named a Louisiana code, 228 a code from another state, 49 a toll-free code and 7 something else, such as a special-use code, a number abroad or a prefix that is not assigned.
Where the numbers people in Louisiana reported came from
Where the 418 caller ID numbers from Louisiana came from.
- Louisiana area codes32% · 134 complaints
- Other states' area codes55% · 228 complaints
- Toll-free codes12% · 49 complaints
- Other or not assigned2% · 7 complaints
After Louisiana, people there named Virginia, California and Maryland codes most.
Louisiana ranks 43rd of 51 for complaints per 100,000 people, between Connecticut and New Mexico.
Colorado leads the list at 109.8 and North Dakota is last at 13.8. The 50 states and DC together file 36.6.
Louisiana next to the states ranked around it
Complaints for every 100,000 residents, the states ranked next to Louisiana.
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1,146 unwanted-call complaints from October 2025 to September 2026, which is 24.8 for every 100,000 residents. That ranks 43rd among the 50 states and DC per person and 29th by total count.
504 (New Orleans, Louisiana) was named on 43 complaints, 10% of the complaints that gave a caller ID number. Next were 225 (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) with 31 and 318 (Shreveport, Monroe and Alexandria, Louisiana) with 26.
Not mostly. 37% of the complaints that named a US area code carried a Louisiana code, against 50% across the country. After Louisiana, the area codes named most belonged to Virginia (27), California (18) and Maryland (18). Caller ID can be faked, so a code shows what appeared on the phone, not where the caller was.
33% were about prerecorded calls, 28% about a live caller and 19% about text messages, and 21% did not say. Across the country the split is 41%, 26% and 15%.
Yes. People in Louisiana filed 374 complaints in July to September 2026, 55% more than the 242 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 Louisiana (4,618,189 residents) puts every state on one scale, which is why Louisiana ranks 43rd per person and 29th 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/louisiana
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