Body Shops in Santa Rosa County, Florida: 123 Licensed, 10 Expired (2026)
Santa Rosa County has 123 state-licensed motor vehicle repair shops (12 collision/body classified) and 10 strictly expired licenses, from a complete nightly-verified pull of the FDACS register.
123 of Florida's 22645 active FDACS licences, 0.5 percent, are in Santa Rosa County. Among the 66 Florida counties on that register, Santa Rosa County ranks 33rd.
Santa Rosa 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.
Santa Rosa County by the numbers
| Measure | Count |
|---|---|
| Active licensed repair shops | 123 |
| Collision / body-shop classified | 12 |
| Licenses issued in the last 12 months | 20 |
| Licenses due to expire within 6 months | 28 |
| Strictly expired licenses held right now | 10 |
The busiest cities for licensed repair work in Santa Rosa County: Milton (59), Navarre (23), Gulf Breeze (21), Pace (16), Jay (4).
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 Santa Rosa 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 Santa Rosa County currently has 10 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 Santa Rosa County
Every licensed Santa Rosa 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 Santa Rosa 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 Santa Rosa County compares with the rest of Florida
Directly above Santa Rosa County on the Florida ranking by active licence count is Indian River County with 159 active licences, and directly below it is Flagler County with 119. Collision or body-shop classification covers 9.8 percent of Santa Rosa County's active shops against 10.7 percent statewide, and strictly expired licences are 7.5 percent of its active-plus-expired FDACS records against 5.4 percent statewide. Milton carries 59 of the county's 123 active licences, 48.0 percent, and the register names 5 cities in Santa Rosa County. Of those 123 active licences, 28 fall due for renewal within six months of 2026-08-23, 22.8 percent against 24.5 percent statewide, and 20 were issued in the previous twelve months, 16.3 percent against 9.9 percent statewide.
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