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Do people in North Carolina report more spam calls than most states? They filed 5,195 FCC complaints in 12 months, eighth most per person.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people in North Carolina filed 5,195 unwanted-call complaints with the FCC, or 46.4 for every 100,000 residents, which ranks eighth among the 50 states and DC. 26% of the 1,849 caller IDs people reported were toll-free numbers, against 18% across the country.
- 5,195unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC by people in North Carolina, October 2025 to September 2026
- 46.4complaints for every 100,000 residents, eighth of 51 (the whole country: 36.6)
- 252the area code people there named most, on 124 complaints (Greenville, Rocky Mount and New Bern, North Carolina)
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 North Carolina reported area code 252 most, and 4 of the 10 busiest area codes are in North Carolina.
Each row counts the complaints from people in North Carolina 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 810 of the 1,849 complaints that gave a caller ID.
| Rank | Code | Where it is | In North Carolina? | Complaints |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 252 | Greenville, Rocky Mount and New BernIn North Carolina | Yes | 124 |
| 2 | 833 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 104 |
| 3 | 855 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 85 |
| 4 | 910 | Fayetteville, Wilmington and JacksonvilleIn North Carolina | Yes | 81 |
| 5 | 888 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 77 |
| 6 | 704 | CharlotteIn North Carolina | Yes | 76 |
| 7 | 844 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 70 |
| 8 | 828 | Asheville and western North CarolinaIn North Carolina | Yes | 68 |
| 9 | 866 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 66 |
| 10 | 877 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 59 |
Monthly complaints from North Carolina rose from 426 in January to 631 in August.
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 North Carolina by month
Unwanted-call complaints filed from North Carolina per month, October 2025 to September 2026.
- Complaints filed from North Carolina
- Months the FCC file is thin
| Month | All complaints |
|---|---|
| October 2025 | 0 |
| November 2025 | 293 |
| December 2025 | 466 |
| January 2026 | 426 |
| February 2026 | 521 |
| March 2026 | 441 |
| April 2026 | 436 |
| May 2026 | 430 |
| June 2026 | 498 |
| July 2026 | 553 |
| August 2026 | 631 |
| September 2026 | 500 |
Prerecorded calls are the biggest group of complaints from North Carolina, at 38% against 41% across the country.
The FCC files robocalls, live callers and texts under one issue, "Unwanted Calls". The bar shows how the 5,195 complaints from North Carolina split by what the person says reached them.
What reached people in North Carolina
How the 5,195 complaints from North Carolina split.
- Prerecorded call38% · 1,996 complaints
- Live caller22% · 1,118 complaints
- Text message11% · 589 complaints
- Kind not stated29% · 1,492 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 North Carolina reported carry a North Carolina area code, 536 of 1,333 (40%), against 50% across the country.
Of 1,849 complaints that gave a caller ID, 536 named a North Carolina code, 797 a code from another state, 475 a toll-free code and 41 something else, such as a special-use code, a number abroad or a prefix that is not assigned.
Where the numbers people in North Carolina reported came from
Where the 1,849 caller ID numbers from North Carolina came from.
- North Carolina area codes29% · 536 complaints
- Other states' area codes43% · 797 complaints
- Toll-free codes26% · 475 complaints
- Other or not assigned2% · 41 complaints
After North Carolina, people there named Florida, New York and California codes most.
North Carolina ranks eighth of 51 for complaints per 100,000 people, between Tennessee and Wyoming.
Colorado leads the list at 109.8 and North Dakota is last at 13.8. The 50 states and DC together file 36.6.
North Carolina next to the states ranked around it
Complaints for every 100,000 residents, the states ranked next to North Carolina.
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5,195 unwanted-call complaints from October 2025 to September 2026, which is 46.4 for every 100,000 residents. That ranks eighth among the 50 states and DC per person and sixth by total count.
252 (Greenville, Rocky Mount and New Bern, North Carolina) was named on 124 complaints, 7% of the complaints that gave a caller ID number. Next were 833 (toll-free, tied to no place) with 104 and 855 (toll-free, tied to no place) with 85.
Not mostly. 40% of the complaints that named a US area code carried a North Carolina code, against 50% across the country. After North Carolina, the area codes named most belonged to Florida (97), New York (96) and California (71). Caller ID can be faked, so a code shows what appeared on the phone, not where the caller was.
38% were about prerecorded calls, 22% about a live caller and 11% about text messages, and 29% did not say. Across the country the split is 41%, 26% and 15%.
Yes. People in North Carolina filed 1,684 complaints in July to September 2026, 21% more than the 1,388 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 North Carolina (11,197,968 residents) puts every state on one scale, which is why North Carolina ranks eighth per person and sixth 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/north-carolina
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