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vivekkopthsd/cfpb-consumer-complaints

CFPB Consumer Complaint Database (mirror) Official public-domain bulk export of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Consumer Complaint Database, mirrored for fast, stable programmatic access. Files File Size Description complaints.csv.zip 1.41 GB Raw bulk export exactly as published by the CFPB (single member complaints.csv, 9.09 GB, 17,021,062 rows) complaints.parquet 1.02 GB Typed, column-pruned parquet (ZSTD) of the same 17,021,062 rows; 16… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/vivekkopthsd/cfpb-consumer-complaints.

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CFPB Consumer Complaint Database (mirror)

Official public-domain bulk export of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Consumer Complaint Database, mirrored for fast, stable programmatic access.

Files

File	Size	Description
`complaints.csv.zip`	1.41 GB	Raw bulk export exactly as published by the CFPB (single member `complaints.csv`, 9.09 GB, 17,021,062 rows)
`complaints.parquet`	1.02 GB	Typed, column-pruned parquet (ZSTD) of the same 17,021,062 rows; 16 columns; dates parsed as `DATE`

Provenance

—Source: https://files.consumerfinance.gov/ccdb/complaints.csv.zip
—Observation period: 2011-12-01 → 2026-08-11 (as-of date of this export)
—License: US federal government work, public domain (CC0-1.0)
—Rows: 17,021,062

sha256

d92239489715c816fa4fc77a27324878cfc88de5b417065ea185e80ac92a6658  complaints.csv.zip
6e0a76bea4a9f5481aba4f895e5fa8f9a55df0751969971035637954c0a8067d  complaints.parquet

Columns

date_received (DATE) · product · sub_product · issue · sub_issue · narrative (Consumer complaint narrative) · company · company_public_response · state · zip_code · tags · submitted_via · date_sent_to_company (DATE) · company_response (Company response to consumer) · timely_response · complaint_id

Notes

—narrative is present for ~22.5% of rows (3,835,352) — a self-selected subset.
—The bulk export no longer contains the Consumer disputed? field that existed in earlier schema versions; the closest outcome proxy is company_response.
—complaints.parquet was built with pandas chunked reads (the CFPB CSV has quoted narrative fields that confuse DuckDB's CSV sniffer) and is intended to be queried with DuckDB.

Regenerate

bash

# from the CFPB mirror, rebuild the parquet
unzip -p complaints.csv.zip complaints.csv | python -m build_parquet   # see source project