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Robocalls in Michigan

Michigan consumers have filed 25,837 unwanted-call complaints with the FCC against 22,564 different phone numbers between 2014-01-19 and 2026-11-03 — 2.6% of all state-attributed complaints, ranking 17 nationally. Complaints in the last 12 months are up 24% on the 12 months before that.

25,837
FCC complaints
26,572
FTC DNC reports
7,798
FTC reports, last 30 days
#17
National rank (FCC)

What Michigan residents are reporting

26,572 FTC Do Not Call complaints from Michigan since Jul 24. The most common named subject is debt reduction, at 28%. 76% of complainants who answered said the call was a recorded message.

Complaint subjects

  • Other / unspecified10,18838%
  • Debt reduction7,44228%
  • Impostor (government, business, family)2,70010%
  • No subject given1,9617%
  • Medical & prescriptions1,5086%
  • Dropped call / no message1,4866%
  • Warranties & protection plans4992%

When the calls come (as reported)

28% between 11am and 2pm; 92% on weekdays, most on Wednesdays.

Week by week

7,828 complaints from Michigan in the last four weeks, up 6% on the four weeks before.

Neighbor spoofing in Michigan

34% of the calls Michigan residents reported showed the resident's own area code, and 43% showed a Michigan area code of any kind. 22% came from toll-free numbers. Most calls here don't pretend to be local, so a familiar area code is less of a warning sign than in states where spoofing dominates. How neighbor spoofing works.

What the caller ID showed

  • The resident's own area code9,09534%
  • Another Michigan area code2,2389%
  • Toll-free number5,79522%
  • Out-of-state area code9,44435%

Area codes on the calls

  • 616 (Michigan)1,4485%
  • 8331,3525%
  • 734 (Michigan)1,3195%
  • 517 (Michigan)1,3095%
  • 231 (Michigan)1,3075%
  • 248 (Michigan)1,1304%

Michigan area codes

Each county is coloured by the area code that holds most of its phone prefixes. Overlay codes share one territory and one colour. Complaint counts are from Michigan residents since Jul 24.

Map of Michigan counties coloured by area code: 989, 231, 906, 269, 517, 810, 616, 313/679/734, 248/947, 586
Built from NANPA prefix assignments and US Census Bureau county boundaries. Area codes follow exchange boundaries, so county colours are approximate at the edges.
Area codeResidents' complaintsCalls showing it
313 · 679 · 7345,1502,361
248 · 9473,4311,267
6163,0761,448
8102,661935
5862,258655
2312,1301,307
2691,973973
5171,9421,309
9891,750887
906510191

Likely campaigns reaching Michigan

12% of Michigan's FTC complaints in the campaign window match one of these statistical groupings: many numbers, the same complaint, the same pattern. They don't identify who is calling.

Michigan complaint volume by year

Unwanted-call complaints filed with the FCC by Michigan consumers each year. The shape of this curve reflects both actual call volume and how aware consumers are that the FCC complaint centre exists.

Area codes most reported in Michigan

The displayed area code of numbers reported by Michigan consumers — often, but not always, a local code, because spoofing favours familiar-looking numbers.

How the calls reached Michigan

Prerecorded Voice
11,716
Live Voice
8,687
Abandoned Calls
3,249
Text Message
1,999
Autodialed Live Voice Call
142
Email
6
Wireless (cell phone)
15,154
Wired
6,638
Internet (VOIP)
4,033

Numbers Michigan residents reported this month

The numbers Michigan consumers reported most to the FTC's Do Not Call Registry in the last 30 days — 7,798 reports in all, 1,103 of them this week; 76% were described as robocalls. Click a number for what it was reported for.

What Michigan residents were called about this month

  • Other / unspecified
    3,166
  • Debt reduction
    1,970
  • Impostor (government, business, family)
    814
  • No subject given
    538
  • Medical & prescriptions
    508
  • Dropped call / no message
    453
  • Warranties & protection plans
    132
  • Home improvement & cleaning
    58

Numbers most reported to the FCC by Michigan consumers

Ranked by how many Michigan FCC complaints name them, limited to the last five years. A number appearing here means people in Michigan reported receiving calls that displayed it — not that its owner placed them.

Do Not Call protection in Michigan

Michigan formally adopted the FTC's National Do Not Call Registry as its own state list rather than running a separate one, so a single free registration at donotcall.gov covers you. State authorities can still enforce against telemarketers who ignore it, in addition to any federal penalty.

Whatever your state does, the federal National Do Not Call Registry applies, and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act gives you a private right of action against certain unlawful calls. Report unwanted calls at the FCC complaint centre and fraud at ReportFraud.ftc.gov. In Michigan, the Michigan Attorney General also takes consumer complaints about scam calls.

Do Not Call classification per National Association of Attorneys General — history of Do Not Call. This is general information, not legal advice.

Michigan robocall FAQs

What are Michigan robocalls about right now?

Since 2026-07-24, Michigan residents filed 26,572 FTC Do Not Call complaints. The most common named subject was debt reduction, at 28% of complaints, and 76% of callers who answered said the call was a recorded message.

Are spam calls in Michigan using local numbers?

Often. 34% of the calls Michigan residents reported to the FTC showed the resident's own area code, and 43% showed a Michigan area code of any kind; 22% came from toll-free numbers. A local-looking number is no evidence the caller is local.

When do robocalls hit Michigan?

28% of complaints that give a call time describe calls between 11am and 2pm local time as reported.

How many robocall complaints do Michigan residents file?

Michigan consumers have filed 25,837 unwanted-call complaints with the FCC against 22,564 distinct phone numbers, covering 2014-01-19 to 2026-11-03. That is 2.6% of all state-attributed complaints in the dataset, ranking Michigan 17 among US states and territories by complaint volume.

Does Michigan have its own Do Not Call list?

Michigan formally adopted the FTC's National Do Not Call Registry as its own state list rather than running a separate one, so a single free registration at donotcall.gov covers you. State authorities can still enforce against telemarketers who ignore it, in addition to any federal penalty.

Where do the calls reported in Michigan come from?

The FCC records the state the person filing the complaint was in, not where the caller was. Because caller ID is easily spoofed, a call reported in Michigan may have been placed from anywhere in the world and may have displayed a Michigan number that belongs to an uninvolved person. Area code alone tells you nothing reliable about a caller's location.

What kind of calls are reported most in Michigan?

Prerecorded Voice is the most-reported category in Michigan, accounting for 11,716 of the 25,837 complaints (45%). Live Voice is second with 8,687.

Complaint figures from the FCC Consumer Complaint Data Center, imported nightly, and FTC Do Not Call complaints (unverified consumer reports), published every weekday. The state recorded is the state the complainant filed from.