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Do people in Virginia report more spam calls than most states? They filed 4,242 FCC complaints in 12 months, sixth most per person.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people in Virginia filed 4,242 unwanted-call complaints with the FCC, or 47.8 for every 100,000 residents, which ranks sixth among the 50 states and DC. Only 35% of the 1,656 numbers people reported with a US area code carried one from Virginia, against 50% across the country.
- 4,242unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC by people in Virginia, October 2025 to September 2026
- 47.8complaints for every 100,000 residents, sixth of 51 (the whole country: 36.6)
- 804the area code people there named most, on 207 complaints (Richmond and central Virginia)
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 Virginia reported area code 804 most, and 4 of the 10 busiest area codes are in Virginia.
Each row counts the complaints from people in Virginia 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 848 of the 2,080 complaints that gave a caller ID.
| Rank | Code | Where it is | In Virginia? | Complaints |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 804 | Richmond and central VirginiaIn Virginia | Yes | 207 |
| 2 | 540 | Roanoke, Harrisonburg and FredericksburgIn Virginia | Yes | 118 |
| 3 | 833 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 81 |
| 4 | 757 | Norfolk, Virginia Beach and Newport NewsIn Virginia | Yes | 74 |
| 5 | 855 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 74 |
| 6 | 844 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 65 |
| 7 | 877 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 60 |
| 8 | 866 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 58 |
| 9 | 912 | Savannah and Southeast GeorgiaIn GA | No, GA | 56 |
| 10 | 703 | Arlington, Alexandria and FairfaxIn Virginia | Yes | 55 |
Monthly complaints from Virginia rose from 250 in December to 684 in July.
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 Virginia by month
Unwanted-call complaints filed from Virginia per month, October 2025 to September 2026.
- Complaints filed from Virginia
- Months the FCC file is thin
| Month | All complaints |
|---|---|
| October 2025 | 2 |
| November 2025 | 233 |
| December 2025 | 250 |
| January 2026 | 324 |
| February 2026 | 311 |
| March 2026 | 322 |
| April 2026 | 315 |
| May 2026 | 340 |
| June 2026 | 470 |
| July 2026 | 684 |
| August 2026 | 550 |
| September 2026 | 441 |
Prerecorded calls are the biggest group of complaints from Virginia, 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 4,242 complaints from Virginia split by what the person says reached them.
What reached people in Virginia
How the 4,242 complaints from Virginia split.
- Prerecorded call43% · 1,818 complaints
- Live caller27% · 1,142 complaints
- Text message14% · 579 complaints
- Kind not stated17% · 703 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 Virginia reported carry a Virginia area code, 584 of 1,656 (35%), against 50% across the country.
Of 2,080 complaints that gave a caller ID, 584 named a Virginia code, 1,072 a code from another state, 407 a toll-free code and 17 something else, such as a special-use code, a number abroad or a prefix that is not assigned.
Where the numbers people in Virginia reported came from
Where the 2,080 caller ID numbers from Virginia came from.
- Virginia area codes28% · 584 complaints
- Other states' area codes52% · 1,072 complaints
- Toll-free codes20% · 407 complaints
- Other or not assigned1% · 17 complaints
After Virginia, people there named Georgia, Florida and California codes most.
Virginia ranks sixth of 51 for complaints per 100,000 people, between Maryland and Tennessee.
Colorado leads the list at 109.8 and North Dakota is last at 13.8. The 50 states and DC together file 36.6.
Virginia next to the states ranked around it
Complaints for every 100,000 residents, the states ranked next to Virginia.
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4,242 unwanted-call complaints from October 2025 to September 2026, which is 47.8 for every 100,000 residents. That ranks sixth among the 50 states and DC per person and tenth by total count.
804 (Richmond and central Virginia) was named on 207 complaints, 10% of the complaints that gave a caller ID number. Next were 540 (Roanoke, Harrisonburg and Fredericksburg, Virginia) with 118 and 833 (toll-free, tied to no place) with 81.
Not mostly. 35% of the complaints that named a US area code carried a Virginia code, against 50% across the country. After Virginia, the area codes named most belonged to Georgia (181), Florida (103) and California (89). Caller ID can be faked, so a code shows what appeared on the phone, not where the caller was.
43% were about prerecorded calls, 27% about a live caller and 14% about text messages, and 17% did not say. Across the country the split is 41%, 26% and 15%.
Yes. People in Virginia filed 1,675 complaints in July to September 2026, 75% more than the 957 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 Virginia (8,880,107 residents) puts every state on one scale, which is why Virginia ranks sixth per person and tenth 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/virginia
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