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How many spam calls do people in Missouri report? They filed 1,925 FCC complaints in 12 months, 29th most per person.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people in Missouri filed 1,925 unwanted-call complaints with the FCC, or 30.7 for every 100,000 residents, which ranks 29th among the 50 states and DC. Complaints in July to September 2026 (758) ran 69% above January to March 2026 (448), against a rise of 28% for the whole country.
- 1,925unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC by people in Missouri, October 2025 to September 2026
- 30.7complaints for every 100,000 residents, 29th of 51 (the whole country: 36.6)
- 314the area code people there named most, on 94 complaints (St. Louis, Missouri)
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 Missouri reported area code 314 most, and 5 of the 10 busiest area codes are in Missouri.
Each row counts the complaints from people in Missouri 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 432 of the 723 complaints that gave a caller ID.
| Rank | Code | Where it is | In Missouri? | Complaints |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 314 | St. LouisIn Missouri | Yes | 94 |
| 2 | 816 | Kansas City and northwestern MissouriIn Missouri | Yes | 92 |
| 3 | 573 | Columbia, Jefferson City and eastern MissouriIn Missouri | Yes | 49 |
| 4 | 888 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 49 |
| 5 | 417 | Springfield and Joplin, MissouriIn Missouri | Yes | 46 |
| 6 | 636 | St. Charles, O'Fallon and ChesterfieldIn Missouri | Yes | 34 |
| 7 | 833 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 28 |
| 8 | 855 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 19 |
| 9 | 866 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 11 |
| 10 | 213 | Downtown Los Angeles, CAIn CA | No, CA | 10 |
Monthly complaints from Missouri rose from 107 in May to 286 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 Missouri by month
Unwanted-call complaints filed from Missouri per month, October 2025 to September 2026.
- Complaints filed from Missouri
- Months the FCC file is thin
| Month | All complaints |
|---|---|
| October 2025 | 0 |
| November 2025 | 124 |
| December 2025 | 139 |
| January 2026 | 134 |
| February 2026 | 166 |
| March 2026 | 148 |
| April 2026 | 131 |
| May 2026 | 107 |
| June 2026 | 218 |
| July 2026 | 242 |
| August 2026 | 230 |
| September 2026 | 286 |
Prerecorded calls still lead the complaints from Missouri at 32%, below the 41% across the country.
The FCC files robocalls, live callers and texts under one issue, "Unwanted Calls". The bar shows how the 1,925 complaints from Missouri split by what the person says reached them.
What reached people in Missouri
How the 1,925 complaints from Missouri split.
- Prerecorded call32% · 608 complaints
- Live caller29% · 559 complaints
- Text message19% · 372 complaints
- Kind not stated20% · 386 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 Missouri reported carry a Missouri area code, 326 of 590 (55%), against 50% across the country.
Of 723 complaints that gave a caller ID, 326 named a Missouri code, 264 a code from another state, 129 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 Missouri reported came from
Where the 723 caller ID numbers from Missouri came from.
Missouri ranks 29th of 51 for complaints per 100,000 people, between New Jersey and Delaware.
Colorado leads the list at 109.8 and North Dakota is last at 13.8. The 50 states and DC together file 36.6.
Missouri next to the states ranked around it
Complaints for every 100,000 residents, the states ranked next to Missouri.
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1,925 unwanted-call complaints from October 2025 to September 2026, which is 30.7 for every 100,000 residents. That ranks 29th among the 50 states and DC per person and 20th by total count.
314 (St. Louis, Missouri) was named on 94 complaints, 13% of the complaints that gave a caller ID number. Next were 816 (Kansas City and northwestern Missouri) with 92 and 573 (Columbia, Jefferson City and eastern Missouri) with 49.
Mostly. 55% of the complaints that named a US area code carried a Missouri code, against 50% across the country. After Missouri, the area codes named most belonged to California (34), Texas (24) and Florida (22). Caller ID can be faked, so a code shows what appeared on the phone, not where the caller was.
32% were about prerecorded calls, 29% about a live caller and 19% about text messages, and 20% did not say. Across the country the split is 41%, 26% and 15%.
Yes. People in Missouri filed 758 complaints in July to September 2026, 69% more than the 448 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 Missouri (6,270,541 residents) puts every state on one scale, which is why Missouri ranks 29th per person and 20th 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/missouri
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