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HVAC contractors in Montgomery, AL

The Montgomery, AL metro area has 83 HVAC contractors, or 2.15 per 10,000 residents.

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

The facts

HVAC contractors in this metro
83
Per 10,000 residents
2.15 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
0
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 Alabama. 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
540 employed, $48,680 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers. Median hourly wage $23.40. 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
78 independent, 0 franchise brand, 2 corporate owned, 3 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
2.35% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.00% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 385,480, 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 Montgomery

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

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

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

Alabama publishes no business-level licence source for HVAC that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Montgomery 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 Montgomery, 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 540 workers across Montgomery, and this site publishes 83 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 Montgomery HVAC records that are not independent, 0 are franchise brands and 2 are corporate-owned locations. The two are given as counts and not compared, because records here are still waiting on chain review.

Part of Montgomery'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.

No HVAC record in Montgomery first appeared or was flagged closed over the last twelve months, so this page carries no twelve-month movement for this trade and metro.

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

Among the 6 Alabama metro areas this site publishes a HVAC page for, Montgomery is 5th of 6 by records per resident, around the middle. The field is the metro areas this site publishes a HVAC page for rather than every metro area in Alabama.

Ordered by HVAC records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a HVAC page for, the hubs either side of Montgomery are Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford above it and Flint below it.

HVAC contractors, A to Z

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

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