Virginia Contractor License Lookup & List - DPOR Class A, B, C

Virginia Contractor License List and DPOR License Lookup (Class A, B, C businesses)

Every licensed Virginia contractor business, from the Virginia DPOR Board for Contractors' free public regulant lists. About 41,000 current Class A, B and C contractor businesses, refreshed by the state every week. Each row has the business name, DPOR license number, class, specialty codes in plain English (residential building, home improvement, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, roofing and 40+ more), first-licensed and expiration dates, business address, city, state, ZIP and a link to the official DPOR License Lookup.

Sample output (real rows, a few of the columns):

businessName	licenseClass	licenseNumber	specialtyCodes	certificationDate	city	zipCode
Excel Constructors LLC	Class A	2705203425	RBC	2026-11-06	Richmond	23223
Aerovolt Systems LLC	Class C	2705203296	ELE	2026-11-06	Dunnsville	22454
Reliable Air Solutions HVAC LLC	Class A	2705202003	HVA	2026-11-06	Woodbridge	22191
CMTB LLC	Class A	2705203422	RBC, CBC	2026-11-05	Richmond	23226

Quick start: 3 ready-made searches

Press Try for free, open the JSON view of the input form, paste one of these and press Start. Results appear in the Output tab in seconds and export to Excel or CSV.

New Virginia contractors licensed in the last 30 days (up to 500 rows, so at most $1.50)

{"certifiedWithinDays": 30, "maxResults": 500}

Every current electrical, plumbing and HVAC contractor in Northern Virginia (up to 3,000 rows, so at most $9.00)

{"specialties": ["ELE", "PLB", "HVA"], "zipCodes": ["220", "221", "222", "223"], "virginiaOnly": true, "maxResults": 3000}

Verify a list of Virginia contractor licenses

{"licenseNumbers": ["2705203425", "2705203296", "2705202003"]}

Free to try: Apify's free plan ($5/month in credit, no card needed) covers about 1,600 records a month. Price: $3.00 per 1,000 results.

No browser, no proxies, no login, no API key. The Actor downloads DPOR's official tab-delimited lists, so a full run takes about 10 seconds.

Three ways to use it

1. New-contractor leads. Set certifiedWithinDays (for example 7 or 30) to get every contractor business Virginia licensed in that window, newest first. DPOR updates the lists every 5 business days, so schedule it weekly.
2. Full Virginia contractor list. Leave certifiedWithinDays at 0 and filter by class, specialty, city, ZIP or business name.
3. Bulk DPOR license lookup / verification. Paste license numbers into licenseNumbers to check class, specialties and expiration for a whole subcontractor list in one run. Use expiresFrom / expiresTo to find licenses coming up for renewal.

What you get

Field	Example
businessName	EXCEL CONSTRUCTORS LLC
licenseNumber, certificateNumber	2705203425, 203425
licenseClass, licenseType	Class A, Class A Contractor
specialtyCodes, specialties	["RBC"], ["Residential building contractors"]
certificationDate, expirationDate, licenseStatus	2026-11-06, 2028-11-30, Current (not expired)
businessAddress, city, state, zipCode	2809 VALLEY SIDE CT, Richmond, VA, 23223
verifyUrl	DPOR License Lookup
sourceUrl, sourceAgency, retrievedAt	regulant list page and agency

Virginia license classes: Class A has no single-contract limit, Class B covers contracts under $120,000 (and under $750,000 a year), Class C covers $1,000 to $25,000 (and under $150,000 a year).

Input

Field	What it does	Default
certifiedWithinDays	Only businesses first licensed in the last N days (0 = any)	0
certifiedFrom / certifiedTo	Exact first-licensed date window	none
licenseClasses	A, B, C	all
specialties	DPOR codes such as RBC, CBC, HIC, ELE, PLB, HVA, ROC, H/H, GFC, FSP	all
licenseNumbers	Bulk lookup: only these licenses, any status	none
cities / zipCodes	Location filters	all
keywords	Business name contains	none
virginiaOnly	Skip out-of-state contractors licensed in Virginia	false
expiresFrom / expiresTo	Expiration-date window (renewal prospecting)	none
activeOnly	Skip expired licenses	true
includeAddress	Business address of record	true
maxResults	Cap (you pay per result)	100

Who uses this

• Building-supply, electrical, plumbing and HVAC distributors prospecting newly licensed Virginia contractors.
• Insurance, surety and bonding agents, including renewal prospecting by expiration date.
• Construction software, estimating and payments companies selling to contractors.
• General contractors, property managers and home-service marketplaces verifying subcontractors in bulk.

Privacy by design

• Businesses only. Licenses held by an individual are dropped, and so are sole proprietorships listed under a person's name (about 22% of rows). RUN_SUMMARY.droppedIndividual and droppedPersonLikeName show the counts.
• No email addresses or phone numbers. DPOR's lists include an email column; this Actor never outputs it. Phone numbers are not in the lists.
• Tradesman (individual electrician, plumber, HVAC technician) lists are not read.

Common questions

Is this data legal to use? Yes. DPOR publishes these regulant lists for public download, free of charge, and invites you to use them in any spreadsheet software.

How fresh is it? DPOR updates the lists every 5 business days, usually on Mondays. Each run downloads the current files and RUN_SUMMARY.files shows each file's last-modified date.

How do I check a Virginia contractor license? Paste the number into licenseNumbers, or part of the business name into keywords with activeOnly off. You get class, specialties and expiration, and verifyUrl opens the DPOR License Lookup. Always confirm there before you hire, since disciplinary history is only on DPOR's site.

How much does it cost? Free to try with Apify's free plan ($5/month credit, no credit card), which covers about 1,600 records a month. After that it is $3.00 per 1,000 results, plus a fraction of a cent per run.

Can I get new contractors automatically every week? Yes. Save your filters as a task and add a weekly Schedule with certifiedWithinDays: 7. Send each batch to Google Sheets, Slack, email, Zapier, Make or n8n under Integrations.

Can I call it from code or an AI agent? Yes. Use the Apify API or the Python/JavaScript clients, or connect it to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor through the Apify MCP server.

Data: Virginia Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation (DPOR), Board for Contractors regulant lists. Not affiliated with or endorsed by DPOR or the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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