Metro fact page
HVAC contractors in San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA
The San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA metro area has 62 HVAC contractors, or 2.20 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
- 62
- Per 10,000 residents
- 2.20 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
- 25.8%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
- 53Verify any single record at the board: CSLB license check.
- Licenses lapsed in the last 12 months
- 14
- Employment and pay for this trade
- 200 employed, $75,160 median annual wageOccupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers. Median hourly wage $36.14. 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
- 61 independent, 0 franchise brand, 1 corporate owned, 0 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 0.00% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.00% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 281,639, 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 Luis Obispo-Paso Robles
By record count, HVAC is the sixth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, behind cleaning 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 San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles.
Per resident, San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles carries more HVAC records than California as a whole.
The independent share of San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles'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 larger share of San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles'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 San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles 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 Luis Obispo-Paso Robles 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 Luis Obispo-Paso Robles 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 200 workers across San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, and this site publishes 62 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 San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles HVAC records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands.
No San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles 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 San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles 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 Luis Obispo-Paso Robles 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 Luis Obispo-Paso Robles is 2nd 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 San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles are Fort Collins-Loveland above it and Salt Lake City-Murray below it.
HVAC contractors, A to Z
62 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship.
- A & J RefrigerationSan Luis Obispo, CAState license on record
- A-1 Dan's Plumbing & HeatingLos Osos, CAListed in open place data
- Adam's Heating & CoolingGrover Beach, CAState license on record
- Adams Heating & CoolingArroyo Grande, CAState license on record
- Air Dry Co of AmericaPaso Robles, CAListed in open place data
- Air TechAtascadero, CAListed in open place data
- Air-Left RefrigerationAtascadero, CAListed in open place data
- All Systems Heating & Air CondTempleton, CAState license on record
- AM Sun SolarAtascadero, CAListed in open place data
- American Climate ControlArroyo Grande, CAListed in open place data
- American Eco ServicesNipomo, CAListed in open place data
- American Heating & CoolingCayucos, CAListed in open place data
- Apple Valley Insulation ContractorsAtascadero, CAListed in open place data
- AVG PlumbingSan Luis Obispo, CAListed in open place data
- Bennett & Sons Heating And ACPaso Robles, CAListed in open place data
- Bergin Heating & Air ConditioningPaso Robles, CAListed in open place data
- Central Coast Plumbing SupplyAtascadero, CAListed in open place data
- Chaparral Heating and CoolingPaso Robles, CAListed in open place data
- Cienaga SolarArroyo Grande, CAState license on record
- Coastal AirSan Luis Obispo, CAListed in open place data
- Cochran Family Plumbing & HeatingArroyo Grande, CAListed in open place data
- Design Air Heating And Air ConditioningMorro Bay, CAState license on record
- Drewisch PlasteringPaso Robles, CAListed in open place data
- Earthbound Energy ResourcesSan Luis Obispo, CAListed in open place data
- Eco Air RefrigerationNipomo, CAState license on record
- ElproGrover Beach, CAListed in open place data
- Gas Heating & CoolingSan Luis Obispo, CAListed in open place data
- Goose Family Heating & AirPaso Robles, CAState license on record
- Hvac Paso RoblesPaso Robles, CAListed in open place data
- Innovative Energy SolutionsNipomo, CAListed in open place data
- Lafferty D HeatingCambria, CAState license on record
- Lafferty HeatingCambria, CAState license on record
- Mc Closkey Heating & Air CondPaso Robles, CAListed in open place data
- Melton Wann PlumbingMorro Bay, CAListed in open place data
- Mesa AirNipomo, CAListed in open place data
- Metal ShopGrover Beach, CAListed in open place data
- Mid Coast MechanicalSan Luis Obispo, CAState license on record
- Mid State Air & ApplianceSan Luis Obispo, CAListed in open place data
- Mitchell & Power Heating & Sheet MetalGrover Beach, CAState license on record
- Monarch Home Services - Paso RoblesPaso Robles, CAListed in open place data
- Norman S Wright Equipment CompanyPismo Beach, CAListed in open place data
- Pacific AirAtascadero, CAState license on record
- Pacific Heating and Sheet MetalMorro Bay, CAListed in open place data
- Paso Robles WinnelsonPaso Robles, CAListed in open place data
- Perfect AirPaso Robles, CAListed in open place data
- Phils Pro PlumbingCambria, CAListed in open place data
- Power PlumbingMorro Bay, CAListed in open place data
- R E Michel Co.Paso Robles, CAListed in open place data
- Reeds HeatingPaso Robles, CAState license on record
- Reliance PlumbingPaso Robles, CAListed in open place data
- Rice Heating & Air ConditioningSan Luis Obispo, CAListed in open place data
- Rietkerk Heating & Air ConditioningSan Luis Obispo, CAListed in open place data
- Ronco AirGrover Beach, CAState license on record
- Sargent's Plumbing and HeatingOceano, CAListed in open place data
- Semmes & Co BuildersAtascadero, CAListed in open place data
- Smee's PlumbingSan Luis Obispo, CAListed in open place data
- Solar Cell SalesSan Miguel, CAListed in open place data
- Solect ElectricSan Luis Obispo, CAListed in open place data
- Templeton Heating & Air ConditioningTempleton, CAState license on record
- The Weatherman Heating And AirSan Luis Obispo, CAListed in open place data
- US Air Conditioning DistributorsPaso Robles, CAListed in open place data
- Western MechanicalArroyo Grande, CAListed in open place data