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How many spam calls do people in Mississippi report? They filed 1,041 FCC complaints in 12 months, 18th most per person.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people in Mississippi filed 1,041 unwanted-call complaints with the FCC, or 35.2 for every 100,000 residents, which ranks 18th among the 50 states and DC. The area code people there named most was 901 (Memphis, Tennessee), on 235 complaints, ahead of 228 (Biloxi, Gulfport and Pascagoula, Mississippi), the busiest code inside Mississippi.
- 1,041unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC by people in Mississippi, October 2025 to September 2026
- 35.2complaints for every 100,000 residents, 18th of 51 (the whole country: 36.6)
- 901the area code people there named most, on 235 complaints (Memphis, Tennessee)
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 Mississippi reported area code 901 most, and 4 of the 10 busiest area codes are in Mississippi.
Each row counts the complaints from people in Mississippi 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 373 of the 499 complaints that gave a caller ID.
| Rank | Code | Where it is | In Mississippi? | Complaints |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 901 | Memphis, TNIn TN | No, TN | 235 |
| 2 | 228 | Biloxi, Gulfport and PascagoulaIn Mississippi | Yes | 31 |
| 3 | 601 | Jackson and central MississippiIn Mississippi | Yes | 30 |
| 4 | 833 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 22 |
| 5 | 662 | Tupelo and northern MississippiIn Mississippi | Yes | 15 |
| 6 | 769 | Jackson and central MississippiIn Mississippi | Yes | 10 |
| 7 | 855 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 9 |
| 8 | 866 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 8 |
| 9 | 844 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 7 |
| 10 | 615 | Nashville, TNIn TN | No, TN | 6 |
Monthly complaints from Mississippi ran from 43 in May to 168 in March.
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 Mississippi by month
Unwanted-call complaints filed from Mississippi per month, October 2025 to September 2026.
- Complaints filed from Mississippi
- Months the FCC file is thin
| Month | All complaints |
|---|---|
| October 2025 | 0 |
| November 2025 | 38 |
| December 2025 | 61 |
| January 2026 | 160 |
| February 2026 | 132 |
| March 2026 | 168 |
| April 2026 | 137 |
| May 2026 | 43 |
| June 2026 | 55 |
| July 2026 | 79 |
| August 2026 | 72 |
| September 2026 | 96 |
Prerecorded calls make up 55% of the complaints from Mississippi, above the 41% across the country.
The FCC files robocalls, live callers and texts under one issue, "Unwanted Calls". The bar shows how the 1,041 complaints from Mississippi split by what the person says reached them.
What reached people in Mississippi
How the 1,041 complaints from Mississippi split.
- Prerecorded call55% · 571 complaints
- Live caller20% · 205 complaints
- Text message12% · 123 complaints
- Kind not stated14% · 142 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 Mississippi reported carry a Mississippi area code, 86 of 437 (20%), against 50% across the country.
Of 499 complaints that gave a caller ID, 86 named a Mississippi code, 351 a code from another state, 58 a toll-free code and 4 something else, such as a special-use code, a number abroad or a prefix that is not assigned.
Where the numbers people in Mississippi reported came from
Where the 499 caller ID numbers from Mississippi came from.
Mississippi ranks 18th of 51 for complaints per 100,000 people, between Illinois and Arkansas.
Colorado leads the list at 109.8 and North Dakota is last at 13.8. The 50 states and DC together file 36.6.
Mississippi next to the states ranked around it
Complaints for every 100,000 residents, the states ranked next to Mississippi.
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1,041 unwanted-call complaints from October 2025 to September 2026, which is 35.2 for every 100,000 residents. That ranks 18th among the 50 states and DC per person and 32nd by total count.
901 (Memphis, Tennessee) was named on 235 complaints, 47% of the complaints that gave a caller ID number. Next were 228 (Biloxi, Gulfport and Pascagoula, Mississippi) with 31 and 601 (Jackson and central Mississippi) with 30.
Not mostly. 20% of the complaints that named a US area code carried a Mississippi code, against 50% across the country. After Mississippi, the area codes named most belonged to Tennessee (251), New York (9) and Florida (7). Caller ID can be faked, so a code shows what appeared on the phone, not where the caller was.
55% were about prerecorded calls, 20% about a live caller and 12% about text messages, and 14% did not say. Across the country the split is 41%, 26% and 15%.
No. People in Mississippi filed 247 complaints in July to September 2026, 46% fewer than the 460 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 Mississippi (2,954,160 residents) puts every state on one scale, which is why Mississippi ranks 18th per person and 32nd 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/mississippi
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