Building caretaking in Austria: trade licences by state
Austria has 17,031 trade licences for Building caretaking at a main location, 1.8% of all 956,831 licences.
Most are in Vienna (4,121).
2,375 of them are held by companies and other legal persons, 0 are reported dormant.
Of the licences valid today, 2,640 took effect in 2025 and 1,815 in 2024.
Kind according to GISA: freies Gewerbe. GISA key 500269. What this means
By state
| Vienna | 4,121 |
| Lower Austria | 3,456 |
| Tyrol | 2,052 |
| Styria | 1,919 |
| Upper Austria | 1,547 |
| Carinthia | 1,504 |
| Salzburg | 1,052 |
| Burgenland | 799 |
| Vorarlberg | 581 |
The ten districts with the most licences
| Graz | 604 |
| Innsbruck-Land | 451 |
| Kitzbühel | 412 |
| Baden | 361 |
| Salzburg | 321 |
| St. Pölten-Land | 314 |
| Innsbruck | 311 |
| Kufstein | 297 |
| Klagenfurt am Wörthersee | 291 |
| Mödling | 287 |
Took effect, by year
| 2026 | 3,101 |
| 2025 | 2,640 |
| 2024 | 1,815 |
| 2023 | 1,371 |
| 2022 | 1,076 |
| 2021 | 885 |
| 2020 | 726 |
| 2019 | 657 |
| 2018 | 561 |
| 2017 | 431 |
| 2016 | 431 |
Only licences valid today; ended ones are not in the dataset.
More trades
- Direct selling: 15,424
- Life and social counselling: 14,447
- Massage: 11,833
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.