Electrical contractors in Texas
Texas licenses this trade at state level through the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, so one search covers the whole state. This page holds 14,042 licenses, copied from the TDLR file published 2026-10-22.
Built from the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation file published . Every answer here states the date it is speaking from, and TDLR's own lookup is where a check is confirmed. Electrical contractors only.
What this file says about itself
Every figure here is as of 2026-10-22, the day TDLR published the file — not as of today. That is deliberate: a count of current licenses recomputed on each page view is a different number every day and a wrong one the moment the refresh stops.
- 14,042licenses in the file
- 12,31088% of the file — still unexpired on that date
- 1,73212% of the file — past their expiry date on that date
- 1,904still live, but due to expire within the following 90 days
That last figure is the reason a license check has a shelf life. 1,904 of these licenses lapse within three months of the file’s own date unless they are renewed, and a printout of this page taken today can be wrong about any of them by the time the work starts.
TDLR’s published file carries no status column. There is no field in it saying active, suspended or revoked, so standing on this page is read from the expiry date — and an expiry date cannot know about a suspension. A license can be suspended with years left on it. (TDLR’s own record page does print a status; it is the bulk file this page is built from that does not.) TDLR’s own lookup is the only thing that can tell you which.
Every license on this page permits the same work
Other pages here ask what the job is, because their board divides one license type into classes, endorsements or specialties, and a contractor holding one is not therefore allowed to do yours. This register is not divided that way. TDLR issues a single kind of license here, and all 14,042 of them carry the same code in TDLR’s own file — so there is no narrower question this copy could answer, and nothing is being withheld by not asking it.
What still varies is whether the license is current, which is what the search above is for — and whether this license type is the right one at all, which is the question further down this page answers.
Where these licenses are held
TDLR records a county against each license, and this file names 224 distinct ones, plus 1,348 licenses it records as held out of state — held by someone licensed in Texas who is not based in it. The county appears beside every result because two holders often share a name and the county is what tells them apart. It is also what a place word in your query is checked against — but only a word the name did not account for, and only once another word has matched the name. So the county column alone will not find anybody: a county typed on its own returns only the businesses and holders whose name carries that word, while a county typed beside a trade returns the holders in it.
| County | Licenses | Share |
|---|---|---|
| HARRIS | 1,742 | 12% |
| DALLAS | 919 | 7% |
| BEXAR | 754 | 5% |
| TARRANT | 713 | 5% |
| TRAVIS | 484 | 3% |
| WILLIAMSON | 376 | 3% |
| MONTGOMERY | 370 | 3% |
| EL PASO | 316 | 2% |
| COLLIN | 292 | 2% |
| HIDALGO | 286 | 2% |
| DENTON | 246 | 2% |
| FORT BEND | 212 | 2% |
The twelve largest of 224 counties in the file. The rest are in the register and searchable; they are not listed because a table of 224 rows is not something anyone reads.
What a result here means
It means the TDLR file of 2026-10-22 recorded that license with that expiry date. It does not mean the license is current right now: a license can be suspended or revoked between the board’s files, and this copy would not know. That is why every result links to TDLR’s own lookup, and why you should use it before hiring anyone.
If a name is not here
A license issued after 2026-10-22 will not be in this copy. An electrical contractor license is the one that may contract electrical work to the public. TDLR also licenses master, journeyman, apprentice, sign, industrial and maintenance electricians, and none of those are on this page — a master electrician working for a contractor is licensed without appearing here.
Texas licenses electricians and air conditioning contractors at state level, but most general contractors and roofers are not licensed by the state at all, so there is no state record to check. For those, ask your city or county building department.
What Texas licenses, and what it does not — and what a license covers, which is less than most people hiring a contractor assume.