Professional photographer in Austria: trade licences by state
Austria has 11,062 trade licences for Professional photographer at a main location, 1.2% of all 956,831 licences.
Most are in Vienna (2,630).
550 of them are held by companies and other legal persons, 0 are reported dormant.
Of the licences valid today, 1,084 took effect in 2025 and 890 in 2024.
Kind according to GISA: freies Gewerbe. GISA key 500052. What this means
By state
| Vienna | 2,630 |
| Lower Austria | 1,975 |
| Upper Austria | 1,906 |
| Styria | 1,530 |
| Tyrol | 1,041 |
| Salzburg | 689 |
| Carinthia | 591 |
| Vorarlberg | 393 |
| Burgenland | 307 |
The ten districts with the most licences
| Graz | 470 |
| Linz | 258 |
| Innsbruck-Land | 243 |
| Innsbruck | 224 |
| Graz-Umgebung | 221 |
| Salzburg-Umgebung | 207 |
| Salzburg | 200 |
| Linz-Land | 199 |
| Mödling | 194 |
| Vöcklabruck | 186 |
Took effect, by year
| 2026 | 1,100 |
| 2025 | 1,084 |
| 2024 | 890 |
| 2023 | 800 |
| 2022 | 741 |
| 2021 | 669 |
| 2020 | 581 |
| 2019 | 636 |
| 2018 | 534 |
| 2017 | 560 |
| 2016 | 570 |
Only licences valid today; ended ones are not in the dataset.
More trades
- Taxi: 10,875
- Goods transport up to 3.5 t: 10,564
- Cosmetics: 10,139
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.