Body Shops in Walton County, Florida: 62 Licensed, 2 Expired (2026)
Walton County has 62 state-licensed motor vehicle repair shops (2 collision/body classified) and 2 strictly expired licenses, from a complete nightly-verified pull of the FDACS register.
62 of Florida's 22645 active FDACS licences, 0.3 percent, are in Walton County. Among the 66 Florida counties on that register, Walton County ranks 39th.
Walton 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.
Walton County by the numbers
| Measure | Count |
|---|---|
| Active licensed repair shops | 62 |
| Collision / body-shop classified | 2 |
| Licenses issued in the last 12 months | 4 |
| Licenses due to expire within 6 months | 10 |
| Strictly expired licenses held right now | 2 |
The busiest cities for licensed repair work in Walton County: Defuniak Springs (34), Freeport (13), Santa Rosa Beach (8), Westville (1), Inlet Beach (1).
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 Walton 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 Walton County currently has 2 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 Walton County
Every licensed Walton 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 Walton 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 Walton County compares with the rest of Florida
Directly above Walton County on the Florida ranking by active licence count is Putnam County with 66 active licences, and directly below it is Nassau County with 56. Collision or body-shop classification covers 3.2 percent of Walton County's active shops against 10.7 percent statewide, and strictly expired licences are 3.1 percent of its active-plus-expired FDACS records against 5.4 percent statewide. Defuniak Springs carries 34 of the county's 62 active licences, 54.8 percent, and the register names 10 cities in Walton County. Of those 62 active licences, 10 fall due for renewal within six months of 2026-08-23, 16.1 percent against 24.5 percent statewide, and 4 were issued in the previous twelve months, 6.5 percent against 9.9 percent statewide.
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