Along with offering more details about complaints originating in California, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released its latest monthly consumer complaint snapshot this week as the overall total continued to march toward 900,000.

As of April 1, the CFPB said it has handled approximately 859,900 complaints across all products.  The bureau mentioned four other trends from its latest complaint data update, including:

• Complaint volume: For the month of March, consumers submitted 8,243 debt collection complaints to the bureau. That figure accounted for more than 30 percent of all complaints submitted to the CFPB during the month.

• Product trends: Complaints submitted relating to credit reporting rose 35 percent between February and March. During the month of March, there were 3,321 credit reporting complaints submitted to the CFPB.

• State information: In terms of total complaints per 100,000 people, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Delaware, and Florida had the highest concentration of complaints submitted. 

• Most-complained-about companies: The top three companies about which the CFPB received the most complaints between November 2015 and January 2016 were Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion.

“Today’s report shows that consumers are still running into too many dead ends and obstacles in resolving issues with their mortgage servicer,” CFPB director Richard Cordray said. “The bureau will continue to press to make sure that people can get the right information and the timely help they need.”

More details about California

The CFPB highlighted California for the monthly geographic spotlight.

As of April 1, the bureau determined consumers in California have submitted about 118,900 of the 859,900 complaints the CFPB has handled. Complaints from the two largest metro areas in California — Los Angeles and San Francisco — accounted for nearly 50 percent of the complaints submitted from the state.

Findings from the California complaints include:

• Mortgages are the most-complained-about product: The bureau found that consumer complaints from California were more likely to be about mortgages than consumer complaints nationally. While mortgage complaints account for 26 percent of all complaints submitted to the Bureau nationally, they accounted for 32 percent of complaints submitted from consumers in California.

• California debt collection complaints are lower than the national average: CFPB officials pointed out Consumer complaints from California were less likely to be about debt collection — 24 percent of total complaints submitted — than consumer complaints nationally — 26 percent of total complaints submitted nationally.

• Most-complained-about companies: The bureau mentioned Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and Experian were the three most-complained-about companies from consumers in California.