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HVAC contractors in Anchorage, AK

The Anchorage, AK metro area has 101 HVAC contractors, or 2.52 per 10,000 residents.

What HVAC work involves and how it is licensed is written once on the national HVAC page. Alaska publishes no business-level licence source for HVAC, so this page shows no licensed share; the Alaska page says what it does publish.

The facts

HVAC contractors in this metro
101
Per 10,000 residents
2.52 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
1
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
0
Licensed share
Not published for this metro
There is no license source for this trade in Alaska. No HVAC record on this page is described one way or the other on the strength of a missing file.
Employment and pay for this trade
330 employed, $85,620 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers. Median hourly wage $41.16. SOC 49-9021 pools heating and air conditioning work with commercial refrigeration, so this employment figure and this wage cover both together.
Independent, franchise, corporate
97 independent, 0 franchise brand, 1 corporate owned, 3 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.98% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.00% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 401,314, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 OEWS, published May 15, 2026, SOC 49-9021.

Row definitions: methodology page.

What these numbers say about HVAC in Anchorage

By record count, HVAC is the fourth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Anchorage, behind landscaping and ahead of electrical. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Anchorage.

Per resident, Anchorage sits close to the Alaska rate for HVAC, so the count at the top of this page reads as ordinary for the state.

The independent share of Anchorage's HVAC records is close to the Alaska figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.

Alaska publishes no business-level licence source for HVAC that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Anchorage is shown as not published rather than as zero, and no HVAC record on this page is described one way or the other on the strength of a file that does not exist.

No licence issuance or lapse figure is published for HVAC in Anchorage, so no churn figure appears on this page rather than a zero standing in for one.

The occupational series the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes for this trade counts 330 workers across Anchorage, and this site publishes 101 HVAC records here. The two count different things, one an occupation across every employer and the other the businesses on this site, so they stand side by side rather than one against the other.

Of the Anchorage HVAC records that are not independent, 0 are franchise brands and 1 are corporate-owned locations. The two are given as counts and not compared, because records here are still waiting on chain review.

Part of Anchorage's HVAC records are still waiting on chain review, which is what a name that meets the chain threshold and has not been classified yet is called. While that is true the franchise-to-corporate ratio here is incomplete and is not published as a ratio, and none of those records is described as independent.

More HVAC records first appeared in Anchorage over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this trade and metro grew. A record appears when the source learns of a business, which is a different event from a business opening.

No city inside Anchorage differs from the metro enough on HVAC to carry a page of its own, so every record here is answered on this page.

Anchorage is the only Alaska metro area this site publishes a HVAC page for, so there is no second Alaska hub of this trade to rank it against.

Ordered by HVAC records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a HVAC page for, the hubs either side of Anchorage are Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin above it and Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin below it.

HVAC contractors, A to Z

100 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship.

Other trades in Anchorage

Pest control and Pool have fewer than 8 publishable records in Anchorage, so they are answered on the overview above instead.