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How many spam calls do people in Utah report? They filed 1,055 FCC complaints in 12 months, 31st most per person.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people in Utah filed 1,055 unwanted-call complaints with the FCC, or 29.8 for every 100,000 residents, which ranks 31st among the 50 states and DC. 31% of the 1,055 complaints were about text messages, against 15% across the country.
- 1,055unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC by people in Utah, October 2025 to September 2026
- 29.8complaints for every 100,000 residents, 31st of 51 (the whole country: 36.6)
- 801the area code people there named most, on 54 complaints (Salt Lake City, Ogden and Provo, Utah)
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 Utah reported area code 801 most, and 3 of the 10 busiest area codes are in Utah.
Each row counts the complaints from people in Utah whose caller ID started with that code. 5 codes in the list are toll-free and belong to no place. Together these 10 codes account for 200 of the 379 complaints that gave a caller ID.
| Rank | Code | Where it is | In Utah? | Complaints |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 801 | Salt Lake City, Ogden and ProvoIn Utah | Yes | 54 |
| 2 | 435 | St. George, Logan and most of UtahIn Utah | Yes | 46 |
| 3 | 385 | Salt Lake City, Ogden and ProvoIn Utah | Yes | 34 |
| 4 | 833 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 13 |
| 5 | 866 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 13 |
| 6 | 888 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 10 |
| 7 | 844 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 9 |
| 8 | 202 | Washington, D.C.In DC | No, DC | 7 |
| 9 | 276 | Bristol, Martinsville and Abingdon, VAIn VA | No, VA | 7 |
| 10 | 800 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 7 |
Monthly complaints from Utah rose from 76 in May to 118 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 Utah by month
Unwanted-call complaints filed from Utah per month, October 2025 to September 2026.
- Complaints filed from Utah
- Months the FCC file is thin
| Month | All complaints |
|---|---|
| October 2025 | 0 |
| November 2025 | 62 |
| December 2025 | 90 |
| January 2026 | 110 |
| February 2026 | 115 |
| March 2026 | 93 |
| April 2026 | 90 |
| May 2026 | 76 |
| June 2026 | 91 |
| July 2026 | 97 |
| August 2026 | 113 |
| September 2026 | 118 |
Text messages make up 31% of the complaints from Utah, above the 15% across the country.
The FCC files robocalls, live callers and texts under one issue, "Unwanted Calls". The bar shows how the 1,055 complaints from Utah split by what the person says reached them.
What reached people in Utah
How the 1,055 complaints from Utah split.
- Text message31% · 322 complaints
- Live caller28% · 291 complaints
- Prerecorded call27% · 289 complaints
- Kind not stated15% · 153 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 Utah reported carry a Utah area code, 134 of 313 (43%), against 50% across the country.
Of 379 complaints that gave a caller ID, 134 named a Utah code, 179 a code from another state, 64 a toll-free code and 2 something else, such as a special-use code, a number abroad or a prefix that is not assigned.
Where the numbers people in Utah reported came from
Where the 379 caller ID numbers from Utah came from.
Utah ranks 31st of 51 for complaints per 100,000 people, between Delaware and Ohio.
Colorado leads the list at 109.8 and North Dakota is last at 13.8. The 50 states and DC together file 36.6.
Utah next to the states ranked around it
Complaints for every 100,000 residents, the states ranked next to Utah.
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1,055 unwanted-call complaints from October 2025 to September 2026, which is 29.8 for every 100,000 residents. That ranks 31st among the 50 states and DC per person and 31st by total count.
801 (Salt Lake City, Ogden and Provo, Utah) was named on 54 complaints, 14% of the complaints that gave a caller ID number. Next were 435 (St. George, Logan and most of Utah) with 46 and 385 (Salt Lake City, Ogden and Provo, Utah) with 34.
Not mostly. 43% of the complaints that named a US area code carried a Utah code, against 50% across the country. After Utah, the area codes named most belonged to California (22), Florida (20) and New York (18). Caller ID can be faked, so a code shows what appeared on the phone, not where the caller was.
27% were about prerecorded calls, 28% about a live caller and 31% about text messages, and 15% did not say. Across the country the split is 41%, 26% and 15%.
About the same. People in Utah filed 328 complaints in July to September 2026, 3% more than the 318 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 Utah (3,538,904 residents) puts every state on one scale, which is why Utah ranks 31st per person and 31st 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/utah
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