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HVAC contractors in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA

The Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro area has 2,097 HVAC contractors, or 1.64 per 10,000 residents.

What HVAC work involves and how it is licensed is written once on the national HVAC page. California publishes a business-level licence source for HVAC, and the California page lists which classes count.

The facts

HVAC contractors in this metro
2,097
Per 10,000 residents
1.64 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
74
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
4
Licensed share, CA portion of this metro
17.1%
Share of this metro’s entities excluded as out-of-state: 0.0%. California licenses the business itself, so the share is measured against business-level records. About 47% of California licensees are sole owners, whose published address is frequently a home.
Active licenses with no public listing
2,947
Verify any single record at the board: CSLB license check.
Licenses lapsed in the last 12 months
547
Employment and pay for this trade
10,720 employed, $73,830 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers. Median hourly wage $35.49. 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
2,082 independent, 0 franchise brand, 5 corporate owned, 10 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.57% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.38% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 12,799,100, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023. State license files, as of September 2, 2026. 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 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim

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

Per resident, Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim sits close to the California rate for HVAC, so the count at the top of this page reads as ordinary for the state.

The independent share of Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim's HVAC records is close to the California figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.

Address completeness on Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim's HVAC records is close to the California figure.

A smaller share of Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim's HVAC records link to an active state licence than the California figure for the same trade. Read it as a measurement of the join between two files rather than as a description of any record below.

Almost every Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim HVAC record sits inside California, the state the licensed share is computed inside, so that share covers nearly the whole metro.

More HVAC licences lapsed in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim over the last twelve months than were issued. A lapse is a licence that stopped being current, not a business that stopped trading. Both figures come from the state's own status field.

More active California licences covering HVAC in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim have no matching record in open place data than this page lists records at all, and none of those licences appear in the list below.

The occupational series the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes for this trade counts 10,720 workers across Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, and this site publishes 2,097 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 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim HVAC records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands.

Almost none of Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim's HVAC records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts above describe nearly the whole list.

More HVAC records first appeared in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim 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.

One city inside Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, Glendale, differs from the wider metro enough on HVAC to carry a page of its own.

Among the 19 California metro areas this site publishes a HVAC page for, Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim is 9th of 19 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 California.

Ordered by HVAC records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a HVAC page for, the hubs either side of Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim are Clarksville above it and Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas below it.

HVAC contractors, A to Z

1,972 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship. This page shows the first 300 alphabetically; the rest are on the 6 further pages linked below, not withheld. The city pages below cover the same metro in smaller pieces.

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