Check a Colorado professional license
Type the license number, or the professional's name. 605,817 active licenses across 202 types and 1692 Colorado cities.
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Your own license, or your company's: status, type and profession, issue and expiry dates, renewal cycle, date of the data — in one file you can attach to a tender, an audit or a client file. Not an official certificate, no disciplinary detail.
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Checking more than one? Bulk checks, monitoring and API — or take the register itself as a dataset, with published prices.
Why anyone checks
Practising a regulated profession in Colorado without a current license is unlawful, and the Department of Regulatory Agencies publishes this register so the public can check. The largest types here are Registered Nurse (93,823), Certified Nurse Aide (51,479), Cosmetologist (34,645), Professional Engineer (33,163).
⚠️ A license number alone does not identify anyone
Colorado numbers are sequential within a license type, not across the register. Number 1 exists many times over: a pharmacy technician, an acupuncturist and a plumber can all hold it. Searching a bare number here returns every match, with the profession against each — which is the honest answer, and the one DORA's own tool gives.
The renewal calendar nobody publishes
Colorado does not renew on the anniversary of a license. DORA fixes one expiry date per license type — often with an odd or even year parity — so every holder of a type renews the same day. Cosmetologists together, engineers together.
That calendar exists inside a 344-row table of codes and is published nowhere as a calendar. Here it is: month by month.
Where this site stops, deliberately
14,128 of these active licenses carry a disciplinary action. DORA publishes the action and a case number, and no reason at all — the two most common entries statewide are a stipulation and a letter of admonition, which are agreed outcomes rather than findings of danger.
So no page on this site names a person alongside an action. The counts are published, because a rate describes the system. The detail appears only on an individual entry, built in your browser, with no address a search engine can reach. The whole reasoning.
By profession
- Registered Nurse — 93,823
- Certified Nurse Aide — 51,479
- Cosmetologist — 34,645
- Professional Engineer — 33,163
- Physician — 28,635
- Certified Public Accountant — 16,437
- Esthetician — 16,004
- Electrical Apprentice — 15,433
- Licensed Professional Counselor — 14,916
- Massage Therapist — 13,771
- Journeyman Electrician — 12,657
- APN — 12,015
- Licensed Clinical Social Worker — 11,997
- Nail Technician — 11,839
- Physical Therapist — 9,869
- Plumbing Apprentice — 9,811
- Pharmacist — 9,256
- C-APN — 8,891
- Architect — 8,722
- RXN — 8,614
- Licensed Practical Nurse — 8,297
- Pharmacy Technician — 7,909
- Master Electrician — 7,450
- Shop Registration — 6,429
By city
- Denver — 69,884
- Colorado Springs — 47,428
- Aurora — 35,813
- Littleton — 16,923
- Fort Collins — 16,886
- Lakewood — 14,183
- Arvada — 11,557
- Pueblo — 10,539
- Thornton — 10,457
- Grand Junction — 10,336
- Parker — 9,388
- Centennial — 9,177
- Boulder — 8,963
- Westminster — 8,743
- Loveland — 8,100
- Longmont — 7,876
- Highlands Ranch — 7,766
- Castle Rock — 7,317
- Greeley — 7,288
- Englewood — 6,871
- Broomfield — 6,419
- Golden — 5,087
- Brighton — 4,151
- Commerce City — 3,960
All 92 types · 109 cities · 34 families · The renewal calendar · Discipline
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