What is the most common complaint against Northern Hills Collections Inc.?

The most common issue consumers report about Northern Hills Collections Inc. is "Threatened to contact someone or share information improperly", specifically "Talked to a third-party about your debt". This is based on 15 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Northern Hills Collections Inc. increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Northern Hills Collections Inc. are falling. The company received 2 complaints in the last 12 months, showing improvement over prior periods.

What is Northern Hills Collections Inc.'s reputation grade?

Northern Hills Collections Inc. has a reputation grade of C (score: 56.8/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Northern Hills Collections Inc. respond to consumer complaints?

Northern Hills Collections Inc. has a 93% timely response rate to CFPB complaints.

In how many states does Northern Hills Collections Inc. operate?

Northern Hills Collections Inc. has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 6 states, with the most complaints from South Dakota (8 complaints).

This data comes from the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database and reflects consumer complaints, not proven violations.

Northern Hills Collections Inc. - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 6 states, reputation grade C.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Threatened to contact someone or share information improperly

6
Communication tactics

4
Attempts to collect debt not owed

2
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

2
False statements or representation

1

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record northern-hills-collections-inc Northern Hills Collections Inc.

Grade C · 15 CFPB filings · 93% timely · lead issue: Threatened to contact someone or share information improperly · vol #2156 · compose #2973

VOL 15
GRADE C
12MO 2
STATES 6
TIMELY 93%
ISSUE Threatened to contact some…
RANK #2,156
COMPOSE #2,973

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: Accounts Advocate Agency (15 complaints)

CFPB complaint volume neighbourhood (this collector + nearest volume peers)

Northern Hills Collections Inc.'s 15 CFPB complaints sit next to Accounts Advocate Agency on the volume neighbourhood; peer NAMES stay, and disposition VALUES are this collector's. Grades compare collectors to each other - a complaint is a filing, not a proven violation. How to read a complaint count →

State-heavy filing map

53.3% of Northern Hills Collections Inc.'s CFPB filings land in South Dakota

High volume does not equal a clean composite: Northern Hills Collections Inc. is volume #2,156 but composite #2,973, while South Dakota dominates the geography. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: South Dakota 53.3%; 8 of 15 filings · 6 states touched
Spike month: 2025-10 33.3%; 2 filings that month · spiky (≥15% of series)
Divergent corpus ranks: #2,156 volume; #2,973 composite; Cleanest-composite ladder is 817 places worse than volume

How does Northern Hills Collections Inc. compare to its peers?

How does NORTHERN HILLS COLLECTIONS INC. compare? Versus a similar-volume peer and the national average (collectors with ≥50 total complaints), drawn from 10 collectors with a comparable complaint count

NORTHERN HILLS COLLECT… National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

93%

100%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2020-07 2025-11

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Threatened to contact someone or share information improperly	6
Communication tactics	4
Attempts to collect debt not owed	2
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	2
False statements or representation	1

Where do complaints against Northern Hills Collections Inc. come from?

Northern Hills Collections Inc.'s own per-state count, not a national baseline.

South Dakota

8
Texas

2
Wyoming

2
Mississippi

1
Montana

1
Tennessee

1

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Northern Hills Collections Inc.: nearest all-time CFPB complaint volume and nearest CFPB timely-response rate among collectors with at least 100 logged complaints. State breakdowns above stay geographic; these neighborhoods vary by metric.

Similar filing volume

Nearest collectors by total CFPB complaints. This record: 15.

4 peers

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Data sourced from the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainCollector

According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Consumer Complaint Database, 1,139,236 debt collection complaints are represented in the current PlainCollector snapshot. See our methodology for how PlainCollector computes each company's reputation grade from this data.

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