Debt collection market data

By Kai Greenspan, Founding Editor · Last checked: October 5, 2026

Debt Collection Index publishes original market statistics computed from snapshots of the state registers behind its profiles. As of 2026-10-05: 2,144 companies hold an active Texas debt collector bond on the state's live portal, the median company has been continuously bonded for 13 years, and 298 bond filings have been made since the classic Texas register stopped updating in August 2025. Where the portal stops serving records in bulk, every other filing we know of was checked one at a time; together they account for 99.3% of the records the portal reports. When the classic register last updated, in August 2025, 1,863 companies held an active bond there. Every figure states its source, method, and date, and none is a judgment about any company.

The datasets

Bond continuity

How long collection agencies actually stay continuously bonded: the distribution across every company holding an active Texas bond, computed with the same interval rule every profile on this site uses.

Filings since the register froze

The Texas Secretary of State's classic register stopped updating in August 2025. New bonds still get filed. This tracker counts them, month by month, from exact-lookup walks of the portal that holds them.

NYC license continuity

The New York counterpart: how long companies hold their NYC Debt Collection Agency license, merged across renewals, which the raw records do not survive.

Enforcement activity

Public enforcement actions against listed agencies, counted by regulator and year, each one linked to the regulator's own document.

Coverage, stated plainly

State	Register records held	Profiles published
Texas	8,580 filings (2,144 companies bonded as at October 5, 2026)	426
New York	5,597 license records (990 companies licensed as at August 20, 2026)	188
Florida	No count held	48
California	No count held	41
Illinois	No count held	13

Five states are covered so far. Other states' registers are not yet read, so a company appears here only through its records in a covered state, wherever its head office is, and no figure on this page claims to describe the national market. Coverage grows state by state, and each state joins only when its records can meet the same source and freshness standard; every addition is logged on data updates.

Citing this data

These statistics are free to quote with attribution. Suggested form: "Debt Collection Index, debt collection market data, version 2026-09-23.2, retrieved [date], debtcollectionindex.com/data/." Each dataset page carries its own method note and version. If you need a figure not published here, or a clarification of method, see the contact route on the corrections page.