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HVAC contractors in Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA

The Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA metro area has 159 HVAC contractors, or 1.92 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
159
Per 10,000 residents
1.92 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
3
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
1
Licensed share, CA portion of this metro
18.9%
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
176
Verify any single record at the board: CSLB license check.
Licenses lapsed in the last 12 months
30
Employment and pay for this trade
750 employed, $69,710 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers. Median hourly wage $33.52. 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
157 independent, 0 franchise brand, 1 corporate owned, 1 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
1.24% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.00% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 829,590, 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 Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura

By record count, HVAC is the sixth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, behind plumbing and ahead of electrical. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura.

Per resident, Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura 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 Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura'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.

The share of Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura's HVAC records linking to an active state licence is close to the California figure for the same trade.

Almost every Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura 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 Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura 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 Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura 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 750 workers across Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, and this site publishes 159 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 Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura HVAC records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands.

Almost none of Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura'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 Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura 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 Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura 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, Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura is 6th 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 Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura are Des Moines-West Des Moines above it and Ann Arbor below it.

HVAC contractors, A to Z

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

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