Body Shops in Essex County, New York: 50 DMV-Registered, 16 Expired (2026)
Essex County has 50 DMV-registered motor vehicle repair shops (5 collision/body classified) and 16 expired registrations on the state register.
50 of New York's 14956 active DMV repair-shop registrations, 0.3 percent, are in Essex County. Among the 62 New York counties on that register, Essex County ranks 57th.
Essex 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.
Essex County by the numbers
| Measure | Count |
|---|---|
| Active DMV-registered repair shops | 50 |
| Collision / body-shop classified | 5 |
| Registered in the last 12 months | 2 |
| Registrations expiring within 6 months | 9 |
| Expired registrations on the register | 16 |
The busiest cities for registered repair work in Essex County: Ticonderoga (5), Lake Placid (5), Port Henry (5), Keeseville (4), Elizabethtown (3).
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 Essex County numbers above; the register is the fourteen states that license body shops.
Check before you book
Essex County's register currently shows 16 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 Essex County
Every registered Essex County shop appears in our New York directory with its public record attached. The registry re-checks the Essex 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 Essex County compares with the rest of New York
Directly above Essex County on the New York ranking by active registration count is Orleans County with 51 active registrations, and directly below it is Schoharie County with 49. Collision or body-shop classification covers 10.0 percent of Essex County's active shops against 18.7 percent statewide, and expired registrations are 24.2 percent of its active-plus-expired records against 29.0 percent statewide. Ticonderoga carries 5 of the county's 50 active registrations, 10.0 percent, and the register names 22 cities in Essex County. Of those 50 active registrations, 9 fall due for renewal within six months of 2026-08-23, 18.0 percent against 23.7 percent statewide, and 2 were issued in the previous twelve months, 4.0 percent against 3.5 percent statewide.
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