Body Shops in Hillsborough County, Florida: 1694 Licensed, 111 Expired (2026)
Hillsborough County has 1694 state-licensed motor vehicle repair shops (158 collision/body classified) and 111 strictly expired licenses, from a complete nightly-verified pull of the FDACS register.
1694 of Florida's 22645 active FDACS licences, 7.5 percent, are in Hillsborough County. Among the 66 Florida counties on that register, Hillsborough County ranks 3rd.
Hillsborough 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.
Hillsborough County by the numbers
| Measure | Count |
|---|---|
| Active licensed repair shops | 1694 |
| Collision / body-shop classified | 158 |
| Licenses issued in the last 12 months | 194 |
| Licenses due to expire within 6 months | 432 |
| Strictly expired licenses held right now | 111 |
The busiest cities for licensed repair work in Hillsborough County: Tampa (1084), Brandon (93), Plant City (68), Riverview (62), Seffner (38).
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 Hillsborough 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 Hillsborough County currently has 111 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 Hillsborough County
Every licensed Hillsborough 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 Hillsborough 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 Hillsborough County compares with the rest of Florida
Directly above Hillsborough County on the Florida ranking by active licence count is Broward County with 2047 active licences, and directly below it is Orange County with 1633. Collision or body-shop classification covers 9.3 percent of Hillsborough County's active shops against 10.7 percent statewide, and strictly expired licences are 6.1 percent of its active-plus-expired FDACS records against 5.4 percent statewide. Tampa carries 1084 of the county's 1694 active licences, 64.0 percent, and the register names 59 cities in Hillsborough County. Of those 1694 active licences, 432 fall due for renewal within six months of 2026-08-23, 25.5 percent against 24.5 percent statewide, and 194 were issued in the previous twelve months, 11.5 percent against 9.9 percent statewide.
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