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Do people in West Virginia report fewer spam calls than most states? They filed 385 FCC complaints in 12 months, fifth fewest per person.
From October 2025 to September 2026, people in West Virginia filed 385 unwanted-call complaints with the FCC, or 21.8 for every 100,000 residents, the fifth-lowest rate among the 50 states and DC. Only 31% of the 136 numbers people reported with a US area code carried one from West Virginia, against 50% across the country.
- 385unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC by people in West Virginia, October 2025 to September 2026
- 21.8complaints for every 100,000 residents, 47th of 51 (the whole country: 36.6)
- 304the area code people there named most, on 32 complaints (West 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 West Virginia reported area code 304 most, and 2 of the 10 busiest area codes are in West Virginia.
Each row counts the complaints from people in West Virginia whose caller ID started with that code. 4 codes in the list are toll-free and belong to no place. Together these 10 codes account for 76 of the 158 complaints that gave a caller ID.
| Rank | Code | Where it is | In West Virginia? | Complaints |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 304 | West VirginiaIn West Virginia | Yes | 32 |
| 2 | 681 | West VirginiaIn West Virginia | Yes | 10 |
| 3 | 408 | San Jose, CAIn CA | No, CA | 9 |
| 4 | 540 | Roanoke, Harrisonburg and Fredericksburg, VAIn VA | No, VA | 5 |
| 5 | 833 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 5 |
| 6 | 631 | Suffolk County, Long Island, NYIn NY | No, NY | 3 |
| 7 | 855 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 3 |
| 8 | 863 | Polk County and the Florida HeartlandIn FL | No, FL | 3 |
| 9 | 866 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 3 |
| 10 | 877 | Toll-free, tied to no placeNo place | No place | 3 |
Complaints from West Virginia peaked at 51 in June 2026, against 19 in December 2025.
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 West Virginia by month
Unwanted-call complaints filed from West Virginia per month, October 2025 to September 2026.
- Complaints filed from West Virginia
- Months the FCC file is thin
| Month | All complaints |
|---|---|
| October 2025 | 0 |
| November 2025 | 17 |
| December 2025 | 19 |
| January 2026 | 35 |
| February 2026 | 31 |
| March 2026 | 47 |
| April 2026 | 45 |
| May 2026 | 21 |
| June 2026 | 51 |
| July 2026 | 50 |
| August 2026 | 33 |
| September 2026 | 36 |
Prerecorded calls are the biggest group of complaints from West Virginia, at 37% against 41% across the country.
The FCC files robocalls, live callers and texts under one issue, "Unwanted Calls". The bar shows how the 385 complaints from West Virginia split by what the person says reached them.
What reached people in West Virginia
How the 385 complaints from West Virginia split.
- Prerecorded call37% · 144 complaints
- Live caller29% · 110 complaints
- Text message14% · 52 complaints
- Kind not stated21% · 79 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 West Virginia reported carry a West Virginia area code, 42 of 136 (31%), against 50% across the country.
Of 158 complaints that gave a caller ID, 42 named a West Virginia code, 94 a code from another state, 19 a toll-free code and 3 something else, such as a special-use code, a number abroad or a prefix that is not assigned.
Where the numbers people in West Virginia reported came from
Where the 158 caller ID numbers from West Virginia came from.
- West Virginia area codes27% · 42 complaints
- Other states' area codes59% · 94 complaints
- Toll-free codes12% · 19 complaints
- Other or not assigned2% · 3 complaints
After West Virginia, people there named California, Virginia and New York codes most.
West Virginia ranks 47th of 51 for complaints per 100,000 people, between Wisconsin and South Dakota.
Colorado leads the list at 109.8 and North Dakota is last at 13.8. The 50 states and DC together file 36.6.
West Virginia next to the states ranked around it
Complaints for every 100,000 residents, the states ranked next to West Virginia.
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385 unwanted-call complaints from October 2025 to September 2026, which is 21.8 for every 100,000 residents. That ranks 47th among the 50 states and DC per person and 41st by total count.
304 (West Virginia) was named on 32 complaints, 20% of the complaints that gave a caller ID number. Next were 681 (West Virginia) with 10 and 408 (San Jose, California) with 9.
Not mostly. 31% of the complaints that named a US area code carried a West Virginia code, against 50% across the country. After West Virginia, the area codes named most belonged to California (17), Virginia (13) and New York (12). Caller ID can be faked, so a code shows what appeared on the phone, not where the caller was.
37% were about prerecorded calls, 29% about a live caller and 14% about text messages, and 21% did not say. Across the country the split is 41%, 26% and 15%.
June 2026, with 51 complaints. The quietest full month was December 2025, with 19. 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 West Virginia (1,766,147 residents) puts every state on one scale, which is why West Virginia ranks 47th per person and 41st 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/west-virginia
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