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General Contractors in Quebec: market size and renewals

The RBQ register lists 25,010 general contractors in Quebec. The densest region is Montérégie with 4,625 of them, 18% of the state total. 4,621 come up for renewal within 90 days.

25,010licensed general contractors
982renew within 30 days
9,721renew within 6 months
17regions with licensees
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Where the competition is

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

RegionOn recordValid today Not valid
Montérégie4,6254,6223
Montréal3,4743,4659
Laurentides2,9582,9499
Lanaudière2,1842,1822
Capitale-Nationale2,1082,0999
Chaudière-Appalaches1,6011,5992
Estrie1,5411,5392
Laval1,2971,2952
Outaouais1,1181,1180
Mauricie7847822
Centre-du-Québec7837830
Saguenay--Lac-Saint-Jean7667651
Bas-Saint-Laurent4704700
Abitibi-Témiscamingue3333330
Gaspésie--Îles-de-la-Madeleine2082071
Côte-Nord2022020
Nord-du-Québec83830

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.

982due inside 30 days
4,621due inside 90 days
9,721due inside 6 months

New general contractors per year

How many 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.

YearGeneral Contractors issued
2020977
20211,476
20221,847
20232,064
20241,927
20252,154
20261,396

Counted from the Régie du bâtiment du Québec public licence file, reloaded August 18, 2026. Figures describe licences on record, not businesses: one company can hold several. Confirm anything that matters at RBQ.