Body Shops in Bay County, Florida: 195 Licensed, 13 Expired (2026)
Bay County has 195 state-licensed motor vehicle repair shops (13 collision/body classified) and 13 strictly expired licenses, from a complete nightly-verified pull of the FDACS register.
195 of Florida's 22645 active FDACS licences, 0.9 percent, are in Bay County. Among the 66 Florida counties on that register, Bay County ranks 28th.
Bay County's figures below are computed from the State of Florida's FDACS motor vehicle repair register, our complete pull covering all 67 counties, including the large ones the state's own search tool caps, re-verified nightly and read on 2026-08-23.
Bay County by the numbers
| Measure | Count |
|---|---|
| Active licensed repair shops | 195 |
| Collision / body-shop classified | 13 |
| Licenses issued in the last 12 months | 16 |
| Licenses due to expire within 6 months | 54 |
| Strictly expired licenses held right now | 13 |
The busiest cities for licensed repair work in Bay County: Panama City (144), Panama City Beach (29), Lynn Haven (10), Wewahitchka (4), Southport (3).
Florida requires a repair shop to hold a state licence or registration: the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services issues it under Fla. Stat. § 559.904(1), and it is not collision-specific: the same credential covers general repair. That is the state credential behind the Bay County numbers above; the register is the fourteen states that license body shops.
Before you hand over the keys
An expired FDACS license can mean lapsed insurance and bonding requirements, and Bay County currently has 13 shops holding one. Checking takes a minute: search the shop's name or license number in the state's own FDACS license lookup, or read our step-by-step guide to verifying a Florida body shop license.
Find a verified shop in Bay County
Every licensed Bay County shop appears in our Florida directory with its public record attached: license status, certifications where they exist, and the verification method behind every claim. The registry re-checks the Bay County records against state and federal sources nightly; here's how the data is built.
Statewide context and every other county: see Florida body shops by county.
How Bay County compares with the rest of Florida
Directly above Bay County on the Florida ranking by active licence count is Citrus County with 201 active licences, and directly below it is Martin County with 186. Collision or body-shop classification covers 6.7 percent of Bay County's active shops against 10.7 percent statewide, and strictly expired licences are 6.2 percent of its active-plus-expired FDACS records against 5.4 percent statewide. Panama City carries 144 of the county's 195 active licences, 73.8 percent, and the register names 8 cities in Bay County. Of those 195 active licences, 54 fall due for renewal within six months of 2026-08-23, 27.7 percent against 24.5 percent statewide, and 16 were issued in the previous twelve months, 8.2 percent against 9.9 percent statewide.
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