Body Shops in Erie County, New York: 941 DMV-Registered, 369 Expired (2026)
Erie County has 941 DMV-registered motor vehicle repair shops (133 collision/body classified) and 369 expired registrations on the state register.
941 of New York's 14956 active DMV repair-shop registrations, 6.3 percent, are in Erie County. Among the 62 New York counties on that register, Erie County ranks 4th.
Erie 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.
Erie County by the numbers
| Measure | Count |
|---|---|
| Active DMV-registered repair shops | 941 |
| Collision / body-shop classified | 133 |
| Registered in the last 12 months | 23 |
| Registrations expiring within 6 months | 204 |
| Expired registrations on the register | 369 |
The busiest cities for registered repair work in Erie County: Buffalo (274), Tonawanda (59), Cheektowaga (53), Hamburg (49), Williamsville (37).
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 Erie County numbers above; the register is the fourteen states that license body shops.
Check before you book
Erie County's register currently shows 369 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 Erie County
Every registered Erie County shop appears in our New York directory with its public record attached. The registry re-checks the Erie 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 Erie County compares with the rest of New York
Directly above Erie County on the New York ranking by active registration count is Queens County with 1122 active registrations, and directly below it is Kings County with 905. Collision or body-shop classification covers 14.1 percent of Erie County's active shops against 18.7 percent statewide, and expired registrations are 28.2 percent of its active-plus-expired records against 29.0 percent statewide. Buffalo carries 274 of the county's 941 active registrations, 29.1 percent, and the register names 59 cities in Erie County. Of those 941 active registrations, 204 fall due for renewal within six months of 2026-08-23, 21.7 percent against 23.7 percent statewide, and 23 were issued in the previous twelve months, 2.4 percent against 3.5 percent statewide.
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