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Certified Building Contractors in Florida: market size and renewals

The DBPR register lists 19,753 certified building contractors in Florida. The densest county is Hillsborough County with 1,254 of them, 6% of the state total. 6,234 come up for renewal within 90 days.

19,753licensed certified building contractors
6,234renew within 30 days
6,234renew within 6 months
25countys with licensees
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Where the competition is

Licence counts by county, densest first. Use it to see how contested a patch already is before you spend money marketing into it, or to find the countys where the register is thin.

CountyOn recordValid today Not valid
Hillsborough County1,2541,092162
Lee County1,2021,10696
Palm Beach County1,070947123
Pinellas County1,013887126
Broward County830730100
Orange County829709120
Duval County752648104
Collier County72766463
Dade County72162695
Sarasota County69862276
Pasco County53545976
Volusia County48342360
Brevard County46339964
Manatee County43238448
Lake County40535748
Seminole County40433569
Polk County35732532
St. Johns County35530253
Charlotte County33029733
Marion County30227230
Bay County27124823
St. Lucie County26824028
Alachua County24621432
Leon County22819632
Martin County21818929

Renewal pipeline

Licences with an expiry date inside each window, counted from the board file. A licence that has already lapsed or been suspended is excluded, so these are people who currently hold a valid licence and have a renewal coming.

6,234due inside 30 days
6,234due inside 90 days
6,234due inside 6 months

New certified building contractors per year

How many certified building contractors currently on the register were first issued in each year. Older years thin out as licences lapse and drop off the file, so read this as the surviving cohort, not as the number issued at the time.

YearCertified Building Contractors issued
2020678
2021770
2022973
20231,023
20241,171
20251,255
2026934

Counted from the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation public licence file, reloaded August 18, 2026. Figures describe licences on record, not businesses: one company can hold several. Confirm anything that matters at DBPR.