Body Shops in Ulster County, New York: 189 DMV-Registered, 79 Expired (2026)
Ulster County has 189 DMV-registered motor vehicle repair shops (25 collision/body classified) and 79 expired registrations on the state register.
189 of New York's 14956 active DMV repair-shop registrations, 1.3 percent, are in Ulster County. Among the 62 New York counties on that register, Ulster County ranks 21st.
Ulster 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.
Ulster County by the numbers
| Measure | Count |
|---|---|
| Active DMV-registered repair shops | 189 |
| Collision / body-shop classified | 25 |
| Registered in the last 12 months | 4 |
| Registrations expiring within 6 months | 36 |
| Expired registrations on the register | 79 |
The busiest cities for registered repair work in Ulster County: Kingston (59), Saugerties (27), Highland (17), New Paltz (15), Ellenville (8).
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 Ulster County numbers above; the register is the fourteen states that license body shops.
Check before you book
Ulster County's register currently shows 79 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 Ulster County
Every registered Ulster County shop appears in our New York directory with its public record attached. The registry re-checks the Ulster 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 Ulster County compares with the rest of New York
Directly above Ulster County on the New York ranking by active registration count is Schenectady County with 190 active registrations, and directly below it is Oswego County with 170. Collision or body-shop classification covers 13.2 percent of Ulster County's active shops against 18.7 percent statewide, and expired registrations are 29.5 percent of its active-plus-expired records against 29.0 percent statewide. Kingston carries 59 of the county's 189 active registrations, 31.2 percent, and the register names 34 cities in Ulster County. Of those 189 active registrations, 36 fall due for renewal within six months of 2026-08-23, 19.0 percent against 23.7 percent statewide, and 4 were issued in the previous twelve months, 2.1 percent against 3.5 percent statewide.
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