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Certified General Contractors in Florida: market size and renewals

The DBPR register lists 38,996 certified general contractors in Florida. The densest county is Dade County with 6,248 of them, 16% of the state total. 10,937 come up for renewal within 90 days.

38,996licensed certified general contractors
10,937renew within 30 days
10,937renew 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
Dade County6,2485,494754
Broward County4,2213,642579
Palm Beach County3,3162,828488
Lee County1,8621,632230
Hillsborough County1,8411,556285
Orange County1,6571,366291
Pinellas County1,4021,207195
Collier County1,115982133
Duval County982817165
Sarasota County82372895
Brevard County729604125
Volusia County670557113
Seminole County666549117
Pasco County52645076
Manatee County52545768
St. Lucie County49342766
Polk County49142764
Martin County47939782
St. Johns County43534293
Lake County42635670
Charlotte County36131744
Marion County32926861
Alachua County30723176
Indian River County29123853
Leon County28223646

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.

10,937due inside 30 days
10,937due inside 90 days
10,937due inside 6 months

New certified general contractors per year

How many certified general 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 General Contractors issued
20201,279
20211,366
20221,834
20231,876
20242,106
20252,475
20261,822

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.