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How many spam calls do people in Michigan report? They filed 3,439 FCC complaints in 12 months, 21st most per person.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people in Michigan filed 3,439 unwanted-call complaints with the FCC, or 34.0 for every 100,000 residents, which ranks 21st among the 50 states and DC. The busiest month was December 2025, with 354 complaints.
- 3,439unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC by people in Michigan, October 2025 to September 2026
- 34.0complaints for every 100,000 residents, 21st of 51 (the whole country: 36.6)
- 734the area code people there named most, on 94 complaints (Ann Arbor and the suburbs outside Detroit, Michigan)
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 Michigan reported area code 734 most, and 6 of the 10 busiest area codes are in Michigan.
Each row counts the complaints from people in Michigan 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 574 of the 1,545 complaints that gave a caller ID.
| Rank | Code | Where it is | In Michigan? | Complaints |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 734 | Ann Arbor and the suburbs outside DetroitIn Michigan | Yes | 94 |
| 2 | 313 | DetroitIn Michigan | Yes | 78 |
| 3 | 517 | Lansing and the area around itIn Michigan | Yes | 69 |
| 4 | 833 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 62 |
| 5 | 248 | Oakland CountyIn Michigan | Yes | 57 |
| 6 | 231 | Traverse City and MuskegonIn Michigan | Yes | 49 |
| 7 | 616 | Grand RapidsIn Michigan | Yes | 45 |
| 8 | 844 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 41 |
| 9 | 888 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 40 |
| 10 | 855 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 39 |
Monthly complaints from Michigan ran from 278 in June to 354 in December.
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 Michigan by month
Unwanted-call complaints filed from Michigan per month, October 2025 to September 2026.
- Complaints filed from Michigan
- Months the FCC file is thin
| Month | All complaints |
|---|---|
| October 2025 | 1 |
| November 2025 | 215 |
| December 2025 | 354 |
| January 2026 | 329 |
| February 2026 | 332 |
| March 2026 | 352 |
| April 2026 | 303 |
| May 2026 | 280 |
| June 2026 | 278 |
| July 2026 | 341 |
| August 2026 | 305 |
| September 2026 | 349 |
Prerecorded calls are the biggest group of complaints from Michigan, at 39% against 41% across the country.
The FCC files robocalls, live callers and texts under one issue, "Unwanted Calls". The bar shows how the 3,439 complaints from Michigan split by what the person says reached them.
What reached people in Michigan
How the 3,439 complaints from Michigan split.
- Prerecorded call39% · 1,358 complaints
- Live caller26% · 909 complaints
- Text message16% · 561 complaints
- Kind not stated18% · 611 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 Michigan reported carry a Michigan area code, 515 of 1,272 (40%), against 50% across the country.
Of 1,545 complaints that gave a caller ID, 515 named a Michigan code, 757 a code from another state, 257 a toll-free code and 16 something else, such as a special-use code, a number abroad or a prefix that is not assigned.
Where the numbers people in Michigan reported came from
Where the 1,545 caller ID numbers from Michigan came from.
Michigan ranks 21st of 51 for complaints per 100,000 people, between Kansas and Texas.
Colorado leads the list at 109.8 and North Dakota is last at 13.8. The 50 states and DC together file 36.6.
Michigan next to the states ranked around it
Complaints for every 100,000 residents, the states ranked next to Michigan.
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3,439 unwanted-call complaints from October 2025 to September 2026, which is 34.0 for every 100,000 residents. That ranks 21st among the 50 states and DC per person and 14th by total count.
734 (Ann Arbor and the suburbs outside Detroit, Michigan) was named on 94 complaints, 6% of the complaints that gave a caller ID number. Next were 313 (Detroit, Michigan) with 78 and 517 (Lansing and the area around it, Michigan) with 69.
Not mostly. 40% of the complaints that named a US area code carried a Michigan code, against 50% across the country. After Michigan, the area codes named most belonged to California (83), New York (79) and Texas (67). Caller ID can be faked, so a code shows what appeared on the phone, not where the caller was.
39% were about prerecorded calls, 26% about a live caller and 16% about text messages, and 18% did not say. Across the country the split is 41%, 26% and 15%.
About the same. People in Michigan filed 995 complaints in July to September 2026, 2% fewer than the 1,013 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 Michigan (10,127,884 residents) puts every state on one scale, which is why Michigan ranks 21st per person and 14th 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/michigan
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