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HVAC contractors in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA

The San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA metro area has 687 HVAC contractors, or 1.50 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
687
Per 10,000 residents
1.50 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
22
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
1
Licensed share, CA portion of this metro
22.1%
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
607
Verify any single record at the board: CSLB license check.
Licenses lapsed in the last 12 months
120
Employment and pay for this trade
3,980 employed, $78,490 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers. Median hourly wage $37.73. 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
679 independent, 0 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 8 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.87% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.15% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 4,566,961, 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 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont

By record count, HVAC is the eighth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, behind painting 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 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont.

Per resident, San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont 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 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont'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 fewer of San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont's HVAC records are missing a street address than across California.

The share of San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont's HVAC records linking to an active state licence is close to the California figure for the same trade.

Almost every San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont 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 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont 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.

Some active California licences covering HVAC in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont have no matching record in open place data, deduplicated on the licence, and none of those licences appear in the list below.

The occupational series the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes for this trade counts 3,980 workers across San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, and this site publishes 687 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 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont 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.

Almost none of San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont'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 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont 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 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont 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, San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont is 13th 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 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont are Vallejo above it and San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad below it.

HVAC contractors, A to Z

677 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 2 further pages linked below, not withheld.

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