Body Shops in Onondaga County, New York: 475 DMV-Registered, 176 Expired (2026)
Onondaga County has 475 DMV-registered motor vehicle repair shops (61 collision/body classified) and 176 expired registrations on the state register.
475 of New York's 14956 active DMV repair-shop registrations, 3.2 percent, are in Onondaga County. Among the 62 New York counties on that register, Onondaga County ranks 9th.
Onondaga 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.
Onondaga County by the numbers
| Measure | Count |
|---|---|
| Active DMV-registered repair shops | 475 |
| Collision / body-shop classified | 61 |
| Registered in the last 12 months | 15 |
| Registrations expiring within 6 months | 133 |
| Expired registrations on the register | 176 |
The busiest cities for registered repair work in Onondaga County: Syracuse (204), Cicero (40), Liverpool (39), East Syracuse (33), Baldwinsville (22).
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 Onondaga County numbers above; the register is the fourteen states that license body shops.
Check before you book
Onondaga County's register currently shows 176 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 Onondaga County
Every registered Onondaga County shop appears in our New York directory with its public record attached. The registry re-checks the Onondaga 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 Onondaga County compares with the rest of New York
Directly above Onondaga County on the New York ranking by active registration count is Bronx County with 570 active registrations, and directly below it is Orange County with 412. Collision or body-shop classification covers 12.8 percent of Onondaga County's active shops against 18.7 percent statewide, and expired registrations are 27.0 percent of its active-plus-expired records against 29.0 percent statewide. Syracuse carries 204 of the county's 475 active registrations, 42.9 percent, and the register names 36 cities in Onondaga County. Of those 475 active registrations, 133 fall due for renewal within six months of 2026-08-23, 28.0 percent against 23.7 percent statewide, and 15 were issued in the previous twelve months, 3.2 percent against 3.5 percent statewide.
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