Body Shops in Albany County, New York: 299 DMV-Registered, 112 Expired (2026)
Albany County has 299 DMV-registered motor vehicle repair shops (38 collision/body classified) and 112 expired registrations on the state register.
299 of New York's 14956 active DMV repair-shop registrations, 2.0 percent, are in Albany County. Among the 62 New York counties on that register, Albany County ranks 13th.
Albany County's figures below are computed from the New York DMV's published register of licensed motor vehicle repair facilities, re-verified nightly and read on 2026-08-23.
Albany County by the numbers
| Measure | Count |
|---|---|
| Active DMV-registered repair shops | 299 |
| Collision / body-shop classified | 38 |
| Registered in the last 12 months | 15 |
| Registrations expiring within 6 months | 55 |
| Expired registrations on the register | 112 |
The busiest cities for registered repair work in Albany County: Albany (153), Latham (28), Cohoes (23), Watervliet (14), Glenmont (11).
New York requires a repair shop to hold a state licence or registration: the Department of Motor Vehicles issues it under N.Y. Veh. & Traf. Law § 398-c, and it is not collision-specific: the same credential covers general repair. That is the state credential behind the Albany County numbers above; the register is the fourteen states that license body shops.
Check before you book
Albany County's register currently shows 112 expired repair-shop registrations. Verify any shop against the state's own records via the DMV facilities dataset, or follow our guide to verifying a New York body shop license.
Find a verified shop in Albany County
Every registered Albany County shop appears in our New York directory with its public record attached. The registry re-checks the Albany County records against state and federal sources nightly; here's how the data is built.
Statewide context and every other county: see New York body shops by county.
How Albany County compares with the rest of New York
Directly above Albany County on the New York ranking by active registration count is Dutchess County with 304 active registrations, and directly below it is Niagara County with 278. Collision or body-shop classification covers 12.7 percent of Albany County's active shops against 18.7 percent statewide, and expired registrations are 27.3 percent of its active-plus-expired records against 29.0 percent statewide. Albany carries 153 of the county's 299 active registrations, 51.2 percent, and the register names 27 cities in Albany County. Of those 299 active registrations, 55 fall due for renewal within six months of 2026-08-23, 18.4 percent against 23.7 percent statewide, and 15 were issued in the previous twelve months, 5.0 percent against 3.5 percent statewide.
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