ComplaintsConsumer FinanceIndicator

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Dashboard of consumer financial services complaints.

Jul 2026

Annual complaint totals are live from the CFPB API. The product-level breakdown below remains seed data and should not be treated as official CFPB statistics.

Key metrics

Complaints 2026

3,822,785
1,620,454%

All years combined

16,505,480
0%

Years covered

16
0%

Timely response rate

98.1%
0.7%
Net complaints by yearpeak 5,443,239

Annual complaint totals reported to the CFPB.

2,536
72,368
108,214
152,909
168,273
191,294
242,745
257,132
277,241
444,214
495,939
800,255
1,292,060
2,734,276
5,443,239
3,822,785
2011201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026

Primary signal

Annual complaint volume has grown by several orders of magnitude across the reporting period. Credit reporting remains the largest category and accounts for almost half of all complaints in the product breakdown below.

What the data shows

The dataset spans 16 reporting years, from 2011 to 2026. Annual volume rose from 2,536 to 3,822,785 across that period.

Credit reporting generated the largest number of complaints, followed by debt collection and credit cards. Together, those categories represent more than four-fifths of complaints in the product breakdown.

Company response performance remained high overall, although response rates varied by product. Student-loan and debt-collection complaints recorded the lowest timely-response rates among the displayed categories.

Complaints by product

Year-to-date volume, category share, annual change, and company response performance.

Product-level complaint indicators

ProductComplaintsShare (%)YoY change (%)Timely response (%)
Credit reporting210,45044.88.497.6
Debt collection94,12020-2.196.2
Credit cards81,43017.34.798.4
Mortgages36,8707.81.999.1
Checking and savings28,9406.26.398.8
Student loans11,5822.5-3.695.7
Vehicle loans6,7001.42.897.9

Methodology

Annual complaint totals are retrieved from the CFPB Consumer Complaint Database and cached at build time. The product-level values below are synthetic seed data created to test the report interface.

In production, the product breakdown should normalize product names, remove duplicate records, and aggregate complaints by submission date and category. Percentage changes should be calculated against an equivalent prior-year reporting period.

Complaint counts reflect reports submitted to the CFPB and should not be interpreted as direct measures of product prevalence, company size, or confirmed misconduct.