Master builder in Austria: trade licences by state
Austria has 7,785 trade licences for Master builder at a main location, 0.8% of all 956,831 licences.
Most are in Lower Austria (1,679).
4,854 of them are held by companies and other legal persons, 1,783 are reported dormant.
Of the licences valid today, 407 took effect in 2025 and 332 in 2024.
Kind according to GISA: reglementiertes Gewerbe. GISA key 501. What this means
By state
| Lower Austria | 1,679 |
| Vienna | 1,392 |
| Styria | 1,047 |
| Upper Austria | 1,009 |
| Tyrol | 792 |
| Salzburg | 615 |
| Carinthia | 565 |
| Vorarlberg | 350 |
| Burgenland | 336 |
The ten districts with the most licences
| Graz | 237 |
| Mödling | 205 |
| Innsbruck-Land | 190 |
| Graz-Umgebung | 174 |
| Salzburg-Umgebung | 169 |
| Baden | 154 |
| Innsbruck | 148 |
| Linz | 145 |
| Zell am See | 142 |
| Linz-Land | 138 |
Took effect, by year
| 2026 | 389 |
| 2025 | 407 |
| 2024 | 332 |
| 2023 | 305 |
| 2022 | 288 |
| 2021 | 296 |
| 2020 | 248 |
| 2019 | 268 |
| 2018 | 223 |
| 2017 | 240 |
| 2016 | 201 |
Only licences valid today; ended ones are not in the dataset.
More trades
- Trade (retail and wholesale): 158,318
- Personal care: 76,340
- Hospitality: 56,452
Source: GISA (Austrian trade information system), Federal Ministry of Economy, Energy and Tourism, dataset "Gewerbe in Österreich" on data.gv.at, CC BY 4.0, as of November 2026. Counted are valid trade licences at main locations. data.gv.at. As of November 2026.
Source: Austrian company register (Firmenbuch), Republic of Austria, represented by the BMJ, open data under CC BY 4.0.