Original research

Research & data analysis

Original data research from the PlainCollector. Every number here is pulled directly from our live database; nothing is hardcoded.

Download the collector complaint statistics (CSV) , open extract wired into this page's Dataset JSON-LD.

Citable national summary

Debt collection complaint statistics

A source-contextualized set of national CFPB complaint findings, calculated from the current PlainCollector database and ready to cite.

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 compiles this research from that data.

What can you learn from PlainCollector research?

What this research covers

PlainCollector research ranks CFPB consumer-complaint records across 1,139,236 debt-collection complaints naming 5,425 companies in 56 states.

1,139,236
CFPB debt-collection complaints
5,425
companies named
56
states in the mirror

Rankings below answer volume, trend, geography, or resolution questions from the live CFPB mirror; they are complaint statistics, not credit or legal advice.

What does the CFPB complaint data reveal?

These analyses rank debt collectors and states across more than a million federal complaints, by total volume, by recent 12-month activity, and by geographic concentration. Each is rebuilt from the live database on every request, so the figures always match the underlying CFPB records.

Top 10 US States by Debt-Collection CFPB Complaint Volume

PlainCollector aggregates CFPB consumer-complaint records by the state of the consumer who filed the complaint, surfacing the geographic concentration of debt-collection complaints across the United States.