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HVAC contractors in Tuscaloosa, AL

The Tuscaloosa, AL metro area has 43 HVAC contractors, or 1.55 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
43
Per 10,000 residents
1.55 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
2
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
450 employed, $48,430 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers. Median hourly wage $23.29. 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
43 independent, 0 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 0 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.00% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.00% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 278,290, 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 Tuscaloosa

By record count, HVAC is the third largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Tuscaloosa, 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 Tuscaloosa.

Per resident, Tuscaloosa carries far fewer HVAC records than Alabama as a whole.

The independent share of Tuscaloosa'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 Tuscaloosa 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 Tuscaloosa, 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 450 workers across Tuscaloosa, and this site publishes 43 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.

No Tuscaloosa HVAC record is classified as a franchise brand or a corporate-owned location, so the chain split here is independent records and records still in review.

No Tuscaloosa HVAC record is waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts above account for the whole list.

More HVAC records first appeared in Tuscaloosa 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 Tuscaloosa 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, Tuscaloosa carries the fewest records per resident. 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 Tuscaloosa are Killeen-Temple above it and Waco below it.

HVAC contractors, A to Z

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

Other trades in Tuscaloosa

Pool has fewer than 8 publishable records in Tuscaloosa, so it is answered on the overview above instead.