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HVAC contractors in Modesto, CA

The Modesto, CA metro area has 109 HVAC contractors, or 1.98 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
109
Per 10,000 residents
1.98 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
5
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
0
Licensed share, CA portion of this metro
28.4%
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
145
Verify any single record at the board: CSLB license check.
Licenses lapsed in the last 12 months
24
Employment and pay for this trade
470 employed, $64,760 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers. Median hourly wage $31.13. 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
106 independent, 1 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 2 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.00% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.92% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 551,430, 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 Modesto

By record count, HVAC is the second largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Modesto, behind other home service and ahead of flooring. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Modesto.

Per resident, Modesto carries more HVAC records than California as a whole.

The independent share of Modesto'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.

Far more of Modesto's HVAC records carry no street address than across California. What a blank street line is and is not is set out on the methodology page.

A larger share of Modesto's HVAC records link to an active state licence than the California figure for the same trade. That measures how well two files join here.

Almost every Modesto 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 Modesto 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 Modesto 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 470 workers across Modesto, and this site publishes 109 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 Modesto HVAC records that are not independent, franchise brands outnumber corporate-owned locations.

Almost none of Modesto'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 Modesto 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 Modesto 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, Modesto is 3rd of 19 by records per resident, inside the top quarter. 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 Modesto are Evansville above it and Spokane-Spokane Valley below it.

HVAC contractors, A to Z

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

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