# Texas Licensed Motor Vehicle Dealers — partial U.S.: 1 state (TX) location dataset

All 18,252 locations in partial U.S.: 1 state (TX), as one CSV: 22 fields per record, 1 states, file built October 18, 2026. $69 one-time, with up to 10 real rows free before you buy.

Canonical URL: https://locationlists.com/data/texas-used-car-dealer-list

Every licensed motor vehicle dealer in Texas, 20,839 of them, taken from the state's own licensing file with the business address, phone, license number, license class and expiry. The dealer class column separates franchised new-car stores from independents and wholesalers, and independents are 14,987 of the total — that split is the product, because an independent used-car lot and a franchised new-car dealership are completely different businesses with different buyers. Independent dealers are a deeply fragmented market with no national directory, and they are the customer base for subprime and buy-here-pay-here lending, dealer management software, floor plan finance, auction services, reconditioning and warranty products. Refreshed weekly from the state.

## The figures

- Records: 18,252 locations
- States: 1
- Coverage: partial U.S.: 1 state (TX)
- Fields: 22
- Price: $69 one-time, CSV download, commercial license (https://locationlists.com/license)
- File built on October 18, 2026. Rebuilt weekly on an automatic schedule.
- File last modified: 2026-10-18

The file has all 18,252 locations in one download. Building the same list by searching one area at a time tends to miss places, and a missed place looks like a gap in coverage that is not really there.

## Fields

- `name`: Business or facility name
- `dbaName`
- `licenseNumber`: State license number
- `licenseType`
- `dealerClass`
- `status`: License status as the source publishes it
- `expires`
- `address`: Street address
- `city`: City
- `state`: Two-letter state code
- `zip`: ZIP code
- `country`: Country code
- `phone`: Phone number where published
- `county`: County, where the source publishes it
- `sourceUrl`: The public source this row came from
- `latitude`: GPS latitude where published
- `longitude`: GPS longitude where published
- `geo_precision`
- `county_fips`
- `county_note`
- `address_quality`
- `zip4`

## What we did to this data

Merged 10 duplicate listings, unified 49 city spellings, corrected 5 misspelled city names, shortened 17,126 ZIP codes, added coordinates to 18,252 listings, added the county to 6 listings, flagged 5 incomplete addresses and measured 18,252 rows. Rebuilt October 18, 2026 from texasdmv.my.salesforce-sites.com.

## How complete the key fields are

phone 99%, street address 100%, city 100%, state 100%, ZIP code 100%, latitude 100%, longitude 100%. 21 of 22 columns are filled on at least half the rows.

## Ask this list a question with a link

No connector and no account; each link answers with the matching count, preview rows and the price for just that part.

- [The whole list: add a city, state, ZIP code or distance](https://locationlists.com/find?dataset=texas-used-car-dealer-list)

## The same dataset, for machines

- Record as JSON: https://locationlists.com/data/texas-used-car-dealer-list/dataset.json
- Free sample, up to 10 real rows: https://locationlists.com/data/texas-used-car-dealer-list/sample.csv or https://locationlists.com/data/texas-used-car-dealer-list/sample.json
- Buy link (opens Stripe Checkout): https://locationlists.com/data/texas-used-car-dealer-list/buy

## Questions

### Is this the same as the state's dealer lookup?

It is the same underlying licensing data, taken from the state's bulk file rather than one lookup at a time, and normalized into a consistent schema. The lookup shows one dealer; this is all of them with the license class, address and expiry in one file.

### How do I get just the independents?

Filter the dealerClass column to independent. That is the largest group in the file and the one with no other national source.

### How often do these change?

File built on October 18, 2026. Rebuilt weekly on an automatic schedule. The date on this page is the date of the file you would download.

### How is this data cleaned?

Every rebuild runs the same steps and counts what each one changed. For the current file, rebuilt October 18, 2026 from texasdmv.my.salesforce-sites.com: Merged 10 duplicate listings that had the same business name, street address and ZIP code, keeping every filled-in detail from both (October 18, 2026). Unified 49 city names written more than one way within the same ZIP code (for example with and without a space or an abbreviation) to the US Census Bureau spelling (October 18, 2026). Corrected 5 misspelled city names to the US Census Bureau place name for their ZIP code (October 18, 2026). Shortened 17,126 ZIP codes to the five-digit code every address filter expects, keeping the delivery-route segment in a column of its own (October 18, 2026). Added map coordinates to 18,252 listings that had none, from the US Census Bureau address geocoder or, where the street address could not be matched, the centre of the ZIP code (October 18, 2026). Set the county and its federal county code on 6 listings, matched to the US Census Bureau county list from the county the source records, the listing's map point, or its ZIP code area (October 18, 2026). Checked every map point against the state in its address and re-placed 0 points that fell outside that state (October 18, 2026). Flagged 5 addresses that are incomplete, a PO box, or missing a house number, in an address quality column (October 18, 2026). Checked that the row count, state count and field completeness published for this file were measured from the file itself (October 18, 2026).

### Isn't this free on texasdmv.my.salesforce-sites.com?

The underlying records are public on texasdmv.my.salesforce-sites.com. What you pay for is the work between that public release and this file: merged 10 duplicate listings, unified 49 city spellings, corrected 5 misspelled city names, shortened 17,126 ZIP codes, added coordinates to 18,252 listings, added the county to 6 listings, flagged 5 incomplete addresses and measured 18,252 rows, and a fresh rebuild every week. The current file was rebuilt October 18, 2026 from texasdmv.my.salesforce-sites.com. Doing it yourself means downloading the full release, repeating each of those steps, and repeating them again every time the source updates.

### How complete is each field?

Measured on every row of the current file, the share of rows that carry each key field: phone 99%, street address 100%, city 100%, state 100%, ZIP code 100%, latitude 100%, longitude 100%. 21 of 22 columns are filled on at least half the rows.