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How many spam calls do people in New York report? They filed 5,116 FCC complaints in 12 months, 41st most per person.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people in New York filed 5,116 unwanted-call complaints with the FCC, or 25.6 for every 100,000 residents, which ranks 41st among the 50 states and DC. New York ranks seventh for total complaints but 41st for every 100,000 people.
- 5,116unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC by people in New York, October 2025 to September 2026
- 25.6complaints for every 100,000 residents, 41st of 51 (the whole country: 36.6)
- 518the area code people there named most, on 93 complaints (Albany and eastern upstate New York)
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 New York reported area code 518 most, and 3 of the 10 busiest area codes are in New York.
Each row counts the complaints from people in New York whose caller ID started with that code. 6 codes in the list are toll-free and belong to no place. Together these 10 codes account for 579 of the 1,751 complaints that gave a caller ID.
| Rank | Code | Where it is | In New York? | Complaints |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 518 | Albany and eastern upstate New YorkIn New York | Yes | 93 |
| 2 | 833 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 74 |
| 3 | 631 | Suffolk County, Long IslandIn New York | Yes | 62 |
| 4 | 855 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 57 |
| 5 | 866 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 52 |
| 6 | 888 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 51 |
| 7 | 877 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 50 |
| 8 | 845 | Poughkeepsie, Newburgh and KingstonIn New York | Yes | 48 |
| 9 | 844 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 47 |
| 10 | 202 | Washington, D.C.In DC | No, DC | 45 |
Monthly complaints from New York rose from 349 in March to 572 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 New York by month
Unwanted-call complaints filed from New York per month, October 2025 to September 2026.
- Complaints filed from New York
- Months the FCC file is thin
| Month | All complaints |
|---|---|
| October 2025 | 1 |
| November 2025 | 308 |
| December 2025 | 442 |
| January 2026 | 565 |
| February 2026 | 505 |
| March 2026 | 349 |
| April 2026 | 445 |
| May 2026 | 435 |
| June 2026 | 523 |
| July 2026 | 460 |
| August 2026 | 511 |
| September 2026 | 572 |
Prerecorded calls are the biggest group of complaints from New York, 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 5,116 complaints from New York split by what the person says reached them.
What reached people in New York
How the 5,116 complaints from New York split.
- Prerecorded call39% · 2,013 complaints
- Live caller26% · 1,314 complaints
- Text message13% · 647 complaints
- Kind not stated22% · 1,142 complaints
Across the country the split is prerecorded call 41%, live caller 26%, text message 15%, kind not stated 17%.
About half of the US numbers people in New York reported carry a New York area code, 625 of 1,352 (46%), against 50% across the country.
Of 1,751 complaints that gave a caller ID, 625 named a New York code, 727 a code from another state, 351 a toll-free code and 48 something else, such as a special-use code, a number abroad or a prefix that is not assigned.
Where the numbers people in New York reported came from
Where the 1,751 caller ID numbers from New York came from.
- New York area codes36% · 625 complaints
- Other states' area codes42% · 727 complaints
- Toll-free codes20% · 351 complaints
- Other or not assigned3% · 48 complaints
After New York, people there named California, Florida and District of Columbia codes most.
New York ranks 41st of 51 for complaints per 100,000 people, between Indiana and Connecticut.
Colorado leads the list at 109.8 and North Dakota is last at 13.8. The 50 states and DC together file 36.6.
New York next to the states ranked around it
Complaints for every 100,000 residents, the states ranked next to New York.
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5,116 unwanted-call complaints from October 2025 to September 2026, which is 25.6 for every 100,000 residents. That ranks 41st among the 50 states and DC per person and seventh by total count.
518 (Albany and eastern upstate New York) was named on 93 complaints, 5% of the complaints that gave a caller ID number. Next were 833 (toll-free, tied to no place) with 74 and 631 (Suffolk County, Long Island, New York) with 62.
About half do. 46% of the complaints that named a US area code carried a New York code, against 50% across the country. After New York, the area codes named most belonged to California (86), Florida (58) and District of Columbia (47). 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 13% about text messages, and 22% did not say. Across the country the split is 41%, 26% and 15%.
About the same. People in New York filed 1,543 complaints in July to September 2026, 9% more than the 1,419 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 New York (20,002,427 residents) puts every state on one scale, which is why New York ranks 41st per person and seventh 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/new-york
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