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Virginia DPOR Contractor License Lookup

Search current Virginia DPOR contractor business licenses by business name or verify a known license number for free, then confirm consequential decisions with DPOR.

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 Virginia Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation (DPOR), Board for Contractors record before making a hiring or compliance decision.

Authority

Virginia Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation (DPOR), Board for Contractors

Live coverage

Statewide current Class A, Class B, Class C, and temporary contractor business licenses

Refresh cadence

Weekly on Tuesday after DPOR's normally-Monday publication

What the Virginia lookup covers

The lookup covers businesses in DPOR's current Class A, Class B, Class C, and temporary contractor lists. It preserves the business identity, license class, classification or specialty codes, dates, location, authority, and source timestamp when supplied.

DPOR contractor licenses apply to business entities or sole proprietors. Individual tradesman credentials and other DPOR professions are outside this dataset.

Use StateLicense with the official DPOR lookup

Use StateLicense for normalized search and exact-number verification, then check the official DPOR License Lookup for consequential decisions, current status context, and disciplinary information that is not present in the published regulant lists.

Information returned by the lookup

Information	Availability
DPOR license number and current status	When supplied by the authority
Contractor business identity	When supplied by the authority
License class and source occupation	When supplied by the authority
Classification and specialty codes	When supplied by the authority
Certification and expiration dates	When supplied by the authority
Mailing location and source timestamp	When supplied by the authority

Freshness: Weekly on Tuesday after DPOR's normally-Monday publication. Field availability depends on the source record; unavailable values are not inferred.

Need Virginia contractor data programmatically?

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

Use the Virginia 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": "VA",
  "business_name": "ACME",
  "page_size": 5
}'

Representative response

{
  "results": [
    {
      "state": "VA",
      "license_number": "LICENSE_NUMBER",
      "business_name": "Example Contractor",
      "status": "active",
      "authority": "Virginia Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation",
      "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

• Coverage is for contractor business licenses, not individual tradesmen or every credential issued by DPOR.
• Confirm current status and disciplinary information in the official DPOR License Lookup.