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Do people in Vermont report fewer spam calls than most states? They filed 115 FCC complaints in 12 months, third fewest per person.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people in Vermont filed 115 unwanted-call complaints with the FCC, or 17.8 for every 100,000 residents, the third-lowest rate among the 50 states and DC. Only 12 of the 37 numbers people reported with a US area code carried one from Vermont, against 50% across the country.
- 115unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC by people in Vermont, October 2025 to September 2026
- 17.8complaints for every 100,000 residents, 49th of 51 (the whole country: 36.6)
- 802the area code people there named most, on 12 complaints (all of Vermont)
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 Vermont reported area code 802 most, and 1 of the 10 busiest area codes is in Vermont.
Each row counts the complaints from people in Vermont whose caller ID started with that code. Together these 10 codes account for 24 of the 41 complaints that gave a caller ID.
| Rank | Code | Where it is | In Vermont? | Complaints |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 802 | All of VermontIn Vermont | Yes | 12 |
| 2 | 302 | DelawareIn DE | No, DE | 2 |
| 3 | 771 | Washington, D.C.In DC | No, DC | 2 |
| 4 | 914 | Westchester County, NYIn NY | No, NY | 2 |
| 5 | 208 | IdahoIn ID | No, ID | 1 |
| 6 | 220 | Southeast and central OhioIn OH | No, OH | 1 |
| 7 | 413 | Springfield and western MassachusettsIn MA | No, MA | 1 |
| 8 | 434 | Lynchburg, Charlottesville and Danville, VAIn VA | No, VA | 1 |
| 9 | 440 | Cleveland suburbs, OHIn OH | No, OH | 1 |
| 10 | 445 | Philadelphia, PAIn PA | No, PA | 1 |
Complaints from Vermont peaked at 26 in February 2026, against 4 in April 2026.
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 Vermont by month
Unwanted-call complaints filed from Vermont per month, October 2025 to September 2026.
- Complaints filed from Vermont
- Months the FCC file is thin
| Month | All complaints |
|---|---|
| October 2025 | 0 |
| November 2025 | 3 |
| December 2025 | 11 |
| January 2026 | 7 |
| February 2026 | 26 |
| March 2026 | 13 |
| April 2026 | 4 |
| May 2026 | 5 |
| June 2026 | 13 |
| July 2026 | 12 |
| August 2026 | 9 |
| September 2026 | 12 |
Prerecorded calls are the biggest group of complaints from Vermont, at 43% against 41% across the country.
The FCC files robocalls, live callers and texts under one issue, "Unwanted Calls". The bar shows how the 115 complaints from Vermont split by what the person says reached them.
What reached people in Vermont
How the 115 complaints from Vermont split.
- Prerecorded call43% · 49 complaints
- Live caller32% · 37 complaints
- Text message8% · 9 complaints
- Kind not stated17% · 20 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 Vermont reported carry a Vermont area code, 12 of 37 (32%), against 50% across the country.
Of 41 complaints that gave a caller ID, 12 named a Vermont code, 25 a code from another state, 4 a toll-free code and 0 something else, such as a special-use code, a number abroad or a prefix that is not assigned.
Where the numbers people in Vermont reported came from
Where the 41 caller ID numbers from Vermont came from.
Vermont ranks 49th of 51 for complaints per 100,000 people, between South Dakota and Hawaii.
Colorado leads the list at 109.8 and North Dakota is last at 13.8. The 50 states and DC together file 36.6.
Vermont next to the states ranked around it
Complaints for every 100,000 residents, the states ranked next to Vermont.
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115 unwanted-call complaints from October 2025 to September 2026, which is 17.8 for every 100,000 residents. That ranks 49th among the 50 states and DC per person and 50th by total count.
802 (all of Vermont) was named on 12 complaints, 12 of the 41 of the complaints that gave a caller ID number. Next were 302 (Delaware) with 2 and 771 (Washington, D.C.) with 2.
Not mostly. 12 of the 37 of the complaints that named a US area code carried a Vermont code, against 50% across the country. After Vermont, the area codes named most belonged to New York (6), Ohio (3) and Virginia (3). Caller ID can be faked, so a code shows what appeared on the phone, not where the caller was.
43% were about prerecorded calls, 32% about a live caller and 8% about text messages, and 17% did not say. Across the country the split is 41%, 26% and 15%.
February 2026, with 26 complaints. The quietest full month was April 2026, with 4. October 2025 and November 2025 are left out of that comparison because the FCC file is thin for them.
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 Vermont (644,663 residents) puts every state on one scale, which is why Vermont ranks 49th per person and 50th 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/vermont
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