Body Shops in Columbia County, New York: 74 DMV-Registered, 31 Expired (2026)
Columbia County has 74 DMV-registered motor vehicle repair shops (10 collision/body classified) and 31 expired registrations on the state register.
74 of New York's 14956 active DMV repair-shop registrations, 0.5 percent, are in Columbia County. Among the 62 New York counties on that register, Columbia County ranks 49th.
Columbia 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.
Columbia County by the numbers
| Measure | Count |
|---|---|
| Active DMV-registered repair shops | 74 |
| Collision / body-shop classified | 10 |
| Registered in the last 12 months | 2 |
| Registrations expiring within 6 months | 13 |
| Expired registrations on the register | 31 |
The busiest cities for registered repair work in Columbia County: Hudson (24), Valatie (7), Kinderhook (6), Chatham (5), Germantown (5).
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 Columbia County numbers above; the register is the fourteen states that license body shops.
Check before you book
Columbia County's register currently shows 31 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 Columbia County
Every registered Columbia County shop appears in our New York directory with its public record attached. The registry re-checks the Columbia 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 Columbia County compares with the rest of New York
Directly above Columbia County on the New York ranking by active registration count is Franklin County with 75 active registrations, and directly below it is Montgomery County with 71. Collision or body-shop classification covers 13.5 percent of Columbia County's active shops against 18.7 percent statewide, and expired registrations are 29.5 percent of its active-plus-expired records against 29.0 percent statewide. Hudson carries 24 of the county's 74 active registrations, 32.4 percent, and the register names 22 cities in Columbia County. Of those 74 active registrations, 13 fall due for renewal within six months of 2026-08-23, 17.6 percent against 23.7 percent statewide, and 2 were issued in the previous twelve months, 2.7 percent against 3.5 percent statewide.
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