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HVAC contractors in Merced, CA

The Merced, CA metro area has 28 HVAC contractors, or 0.96 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
28
Per 10,000 residents
0.96 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
2
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
0
Licensed share, CA portion of this metro
3.6%
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
68
Verify any single record at the board: CSLB license check.
Licenses lapsed in the last 12 months
9
Employment and pay for this trade
190 employed, $64,040 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers. Median hourly wage $30.79. 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
28 independent, 0 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 0 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
3.45% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.00% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 291,920, 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 Merced

By record count, HVAC is the fourth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Merced, behind plumbing 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 Merced.

Per resident, Merced carries far fewer HVAC records than California as a whole.

The independent share of Merced'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.

A far smaller share of Merced's HVAC records link to an active state licence than the California figure for the same trade. Where the join is this weak the share above is a floor, and no record on this page is described on the strength of it.

Almost every Merced HVAC record sits inside California, the state the licensed share is computed inside, so that share covers nearly the whole metro.

More HVAC licences were issued in Merced over the last twelve months than lapsed, so the licensed side of this trade in this metro grew. Both figures come from the state's own status field.

More active California licences covering HVAC in Merced 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 190 workers across Merced, and this site publishes 28 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 Merced 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 Merced 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 Merced 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 Merced 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 19 California metro areas this site publishes a HVAC page for, Merced 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 California.

Ordered by HVAC records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a HVAC page for, the hubs either side of Merced are Salinas above it and Omaha below it.

HVAC contractors, A to Z

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

Other trades in Merced

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