Tennessee contractor license lookup

Search statewide board contractor business licenses, including historical statuses by business name or verify a known number. Review the source limits before relying on a match.

Verify a contractor license

Free public lookup: up to 10 search or verification requests per IP each UTC day.

Results are informational and should be confirmed against the official Tennessee Board for Licensing Contractors record before making a hiring or compliance decision.

Authority

Tennessee Board for Licensing Contractors

Live coverage

Statewide Board contractor business licenses, including historical statuses

Refresh cadence

Manual dashboard snapshots

Source and coverage

StateLicense imports the Board's Contractor and QA Data_Public crosstab after a manual export. Numberless applications are excluded, repeated qualifying agent rows are combined, and historical source statuses are preserved.

Review a result

Compare the contractor license number, business identity, status, classifications, and dates with the official Tennessee Board for Licensing Contractors record before a consequential decision.

Information returned by the lookup

Information	Availability
License number	When supplied by the authority
Business identity	When supplied by the authority
Raw and normalized status	When supplied by the authority
Classifications and project limit	When supplied by the authority
Issue and expiration dates	When supplied by the authority
Location	When supplied by the authority

Freshness: Manual dashboard snapshots. Field availability depends on the source record; unavailable values are not inferred.

Need Tennessee contractor data programmatically?

Add the same source-linked records to onboarding, compliance, or internal operations workflows through the live StateLicense API.

Use the Tennessee contractor license API →

Production APILive

curl --request POST "https://api.statelicense.io/v1/search" \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  --header "Content-Type: application/json" \
  --data '{
  "state": "TN",
  "business_name": "ACME",
  "page_size": 5
}'

Representative response

{
  "results": [
    {
      "state": "TN",
      "license_number": "LICENSE_NUMBER",
      "business_name": "Example Contractor",
      "status": "active",
      "authority": "Tennessee Board for Licensing Contractors",
      "license_type": "Source-specific type",
      "source_updated_at": "2026-09-03T00:00:00Z"
    }
  ],
  "total": 1,
  "page": 1
}

Free dashboard and API access

Free accounts include an API key and 25 authenticated dashboard or API requests per UTC month.

Coverage limitations

• Home Improvement, Limited Licensed Electrician, and Limited Licensed Plumber programs are excluded.
• The dashboard export does not report a source update timestamp; review the import timestamp and confirm current status with the Board.

Tennessee contractor license lookup FAQ

What does Tennessee coverage include?

Statewide Board contractor business licenses, including historical statuses. Home Improvement, Limited Licensed Electrician, and Limited Licensed Plumber programs are excluded. The dashboard export does not report a source update timestamp; review the import timestamp and confirm current status with the Board.

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