What is the most common complaint against Northwest Bancshares Inc?

The most common issue consumers report about Northwest Bancshares Inc is "Attempts to collect debt not owed", specifically "Debt is not yours". This is based on 12 complaints filed with the CFPB.

Are complaints against Northwest Bancshares Inc increasing or decreasing?

Complaints against Northwest Bancshares Inc have been stable. The company received 3 complaints in the last 12 months.

What is Northwest Bancshares Inc's reputation grade?

Northwest Bancshares Inc has a reputation grade of C (score: 61.0/100), PlainCollector's composite letter grade blending complaint volume, response timeliness, dispute rate, and complaint trend.

Does Northwest Bancshares Inc respond to consumer complaints?

Northwest Bancshares Inc has a 100% timely response rate to CFPB complaints.

In how many states does Northwest Bancshares Inc operate?

Northwest Bancshares Inc has received CFPB complaints from consumers in 5 states, with the most complaints from Georgia (5 complaints).

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

Northwest Bancshares Inc - Debt Collector Complaint Profile

CFPB complaint profile across 5 states, reputation grade C.

Compiled by PlainCollector

Attempts to collect debt not owed

5
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action

3
Written notification about debt

2
Communication tactics

2

Data updated September 2026

CFPB complaint disposition

CCDB record northwest-bancshares-inc Northwest Bancshares Inc

Grade C · 12 CFPB filings · 100% timely · lead issue: Attempts to collect debt not owed · vol #2339 · compose #2245

VOL 12
GRADE C
12MO 3
STATES 5
TIMELY 100%
ISSUE Attempts to collect debt n…
RANK #2,339
COMPOSE #2,245

Volume peers

Nearest volume peer: 1803 Capital, LLC (12 complaints)

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

Northwest Bancshares Inc's 12 CFPB complaints sit next to 1803 Capital, LLC 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

41.7% of Northwest Bancshares Inc's CFPB filings land in Georgia

Concentration is computed from this collector's company_states rows only, not a national baseline. Corpus placement method.

Dominant state: Georgia 41.7%; 5 of 12 filings · 5 states touched
Spike month: 2025-12 17.1%; 6 filings that month · spiky (≥15% of series)
Corpus ranks: #2,339 volume; #2,245 composite; Among 5,420 volume-ranked / 5,278 scored collectors

How does Northwest Bancshares Inc compare to its peers?

How does NORTHWEST BANCSHARES 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

NORTHWEST BANCSHARES I… National average

Complaints (last 12 mo)lower is better

268

Timely-response ratehigher is better

100%

92%

91%

Consumer-dispute ratelower is better

19%

Source: CFPB Consumer Complaint Database.

Complaint Trend (24 months)

2019-02 2026-02

Issue Detail Breakdown

Issue	Complaints
Attempts to collect debt not owed	5
Took or threatened to take negative or legal action	3
Written notification about debt	2
Communication tactics	2

Where do complaints against Northwest Bancshares Inc come from?

Northwest Bancshares Inc's own per-state count, not a national baseline.

Georgia

5
New York

2
Ohio

2
Pennsylvania

2
California

1

Compare beyond geography

Nationwide peers by volume & timely response

Two PlainCollector-derived comparison paths for Northwest Bancshares 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: 12.

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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