Home Improvement Contractors in New York City: market size and renewals
The DCWP register lists 69,884 home improvement contractors in New York City. The densest county is Queens County with 13,129 of them, 18% of the state total. 3,520 come up for renewal within 90 days.
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.
| County | On record | Valid today | Not valid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Queens County | 13,129 | 8,369 | 4,760 |
| Brooklyn County | 13,067 | 7,909 | 5,158 |
| Manhattan County | 9,986 | 6,275 | 3,711 |
| Bronx County | 6,144 | 3,638 | 2,506 |
| Outside Nyc County | 3,786 | 2,557 | 1,229 |
| Staten Island County | 2,998 | 2,025 | 973 |
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.
New home improvement contractors per year
How many home improvement 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.
| Year | Home Improvement Contractors issued | |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 2,232 | |
| 2021 | 4,156 | |
| 2022 | 5,159 | |
| 2023 | 5,865 | |
| 2024 | 5,506 | |
| 2025 | 6,661 | |
| 2026 | 1,656 |
Counted from the NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection public licence file, reloaded August 18, 2026. Figures describe licences on record, not businesses: one company can hold several. Confirm anything that matters at DCWP.