Body Shops in Sarasota County, Florida: 397 Licensed, 24 Expired (2026)
Sarasota County has 397 state-licensed motor vehicle repair shops (30 collision/body classified) and 24 strictly expired licenses, from a complete nightly-verified pull of the FDACS register.
397 of Florida's 22645 active FDACS licences, 1.8 percent, are in Sarasota County. Among the 66 Florida counties on that register, Sarasota County ranks 18th.
Sarasota 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.
Sarasota County by the numbers
| Measure | Count |
|---|---|
| Active licensed repair shops | 397 |
| Collision / body-shop classified | 30 |
| Licenses issued in the last 12 months | 28 |
| Licenses due to expire within 6 months | 91 |
| Strictly expired licenses held right now | 24 |
The busiest cities for licensed repair work in Sarasota County: Sarasota (257), Venice (68), North Port (39), Nokomis (18), Englewood (10).
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 Sarasota 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 Sarasota County currently has 24 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 Sarasota County
Every licensed Sarasota 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 Sarasota 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 Sarasota County compares with the rest of Florida
Directly above Sarasota County on the Florida ranking by active licence count is Seminole County with 412 active licences, and directly below it is Manatee County with 385. Collision or body-shop classification covers 7.6 percent of Sarasota County's active shops against 10.7 percent statewide, and strictly expired licences are 5.7 percent of its active-plus-expired FDACS records against 5.4 percent statewide. Sarasota carries 257 of the county's 397 active licences, 64.7 percent, and the register names 8 cities in Sarasota County. Of those 397 active licences, 91 fall due for renewal within six months of 2026-08-23, 22.9 percent against 24.5 percent statewide, and 28 were issued in the previous twelve months, 7.1 percent against 9.9 percent statewide.
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