Metro fact page
HVAC contractors in Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA
The Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA metro area has 40 HVAC contractors, or 1.53 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
- 40
- Per 10,000 residents
- 1.53 per 10,000
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 0
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 0
- Licensed share, CA portion of this metro
- 7.5%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
- 30Verify any single record at the board: CSLB license check.
- Licenses lapsed in the last 12 months
- 8
- Employment and pay for this trade
- 210 employed, $78,330 median annual wageOccupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers. Median hourly wage $37.66. 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
- 40 independent, 0 franchise brand, 0 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 261,547, 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 Santa Cruz-Watsonville
By record count, HVAC is the eighth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Santa Cruz-Watsonville, 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 Santa Cruz-Watsonville.
Per resident, Santa Cruz-Watsonville 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 Santa Cruz-Watsonville'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 Santa Cruz-Watsonville'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 Santa Cruz-Watsonville 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 Santa Cruz-Watsonville 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 Santa Cruz-Watsonville 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 210 workers across Santa Cruz-Watsonville, and this site publishes 40 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 Santa Cruz-Watsonville 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 Santa Cruz-Watsonville HVAC record is waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts above account for the whole list.
No HVAC record in Santa Cruz-Watsonville first appeared or was flagged closed over the last twelve months, so this page carries no twelve-month movement for this trade and metro.
No city inside Santa Cruz-Watsonville 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, Santa Cruz-Watsonville is 11th 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 Santa Cruz-Watsonville are Waco above it and Yakima below it.
HVAC contractors, A to Z
37 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship.
- AC Repair Scotts Valley CaScotts Valley, CAListed in open place data
- AC Repair Watsonville CAWatsonville, CAListed in open place data
- Advanced Mechanical ServicesSanta Cruz, CAListed in open place data
- Affordable Plumbing And DrainSanta Cruz, CAListed in open place data
- Air Equipment Co.Santa Cruz, CAListed in open place data
- Anderson Solar ControlsScotts Valley, CAListed in open place data
- Appi Pool & SpaSanta Cruz, CAListed in open place data
- Appliance Service & PlumbingScotts Valley, CAListed in open place data
- Ballenger Spar SystemsWatsonville, CAListed in open place data
- Bogner's All AirScotts Valley, CAListed in open place data
- Buddy Griggs PlumbingSanta Cruz, CAListed in open place data
- Buddy Griggs Plumbing Sewer & DRNSanta Cruz, CAListed in open place data
- Charles Singer AcupunctureAptos, CAListed in open place data
- D-Right Temp Heating & Air ConditioningBen Lomond, CAState license on record
- George Allen & Sons PlumbingScotts Valley, CAListed in open place data
- George H WilsonSanta Cruz, CAListed in open place data
- Hardy Quality AirWatsonville, CAState license on record
- HVAC Santa CruzSanta Cruz, CAListed in open place data
- HVAC WatsonvilleWatsonville, CAListed in open place data
- Jim Hughes Heating & AirFelton, CAListed in open place data
- K-2 RefrigerationWatsonville, CAListed in open place data
- Luke Plumbing ContractorsSanta Cruz, CAListed in open place data
- Macias MechanicalWatsonville, CAListed in open place data
- McFarland Air ConditioningFreedom, CAListed in open place data
- Montano PlumbingSanta Cruz, CAListed in open place data
- Mountain Service CompanyFelton, CAListed in open place data
- Ocean Air & Heating Co.Aptos, CAListed in open place data
- Pacific Energy SalesSanta Cruz, CAListed in open place data
- Phil Bogner Heating & Air CondScotts Valley, CAListed in open place data
- R B PlumbingSanta Cruz, CAListed in open place data
- Santa Cruz County PlumbingSanta Cruz, CAListed in open place data
- Santa Cruz RadiantSanta Cruz, CAListed in open place data
- Sun AirAptos, CAState license on record
- Sunwave EnergyWatsonville, CAListed in open place data
- Sustainable Home SolutionsSanta Cruz, CAListed in open place data
- Trebco Heating & Air ConditioningBoulder Creek, CAListed in open place data
- Warmboard IncScotts Valley, CAListed in open place data