Metro fact page
HVAC contractors in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA
The Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA metro area has 78 HVAC contractors, or 1.77 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
- 78
- Per 10,000 residents
- 1.77 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
- 24.4%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
- 62Verify any single record at the board: CSLB license check.
- Licenses lapsed in the last 12 months
- 11
- Employment and pay for this trade
- 260 employed, $78,640 median annual wageOccupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers. Median hourly wage $37.81. 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
- 75 independent, 1 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 2 awaiting chain review
- Universe quality
- 1.27% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.00% carry no street address
Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 441,257, 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 Maria-Santa Barbara
By record count, HVAC is the fifth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, behind plumbing and ahead of cleaning. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara.
Per resident, Santa Maria-Santa Barbara 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 Maria-Santa Barbara'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 Santa Maria-Santa Barbara'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 Santa Maria-Santa Barbara 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 Maria-Santa Barbara 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 Maria-Santa Barbara 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 260 workers across Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, and this site publishes 78 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 Santa Maria-Santa Barbara HVAC records that are not independent, 1 are franchise brands and 0 are corporate-owned locations. The two are given as counts and not compared, because records here are still waiting on chain review.
Part of Santa Maria-Santa Barbara's HVAC records are still waiting on chain review, which is what a name that meets the chain threshold and has not been classified yet is called. While that is true the franchise-to-corporate ratio here is incomplete and is not published as a ratio, and none of those records is described as independent.
No HVAC record in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara 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 Maria-Santa Barbara 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 Maria-Santa Barbara is 8th 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 Maria-Santa Barbara are Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro above it and Lakeland-Winter Haven below it.
HVAC contractors, A to Z
77 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship.
- A+ Refrigeration Heating & Air ConditioningGoleta, CAListed in open place data
- A1 Rain GuttersSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Accurate Heating & Air ConditioningLompoc, CAState license on record
- Accurate Heating & Air ConditioningLompoc, CAState license on record
- Advanced Air & HeatingSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Advanced Heating & AirLompoc, CAListed in open place data
- AHR MechanicalSanta Maria, CAListed in open place data
- Air Control Heating & AirSanta Maria, CAListed in open place data
- Air RepairGoleta, CAListed in open place data
- All Weather, Inc.Goleta, CAState license on record
- Allen EnergySanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Anchor Heating & AirCarpinteria, CAState license on record
- Applied Mechanical ServicesSanta Maria, CAState license on record
- Associated Air Cond & HeatingOrcutt, CAListed in open place data
- Austin's Home RepairSanta Maria, CAListed in open place data
- Azetca EnterpriseLompoc, CAState license on record
- Barrett Air ConditioningSanta Barbara, CAState license on record
- Belluz Heating Air Conditioning & VentilationLompoc, CAState license on record
- Best AC ServiceSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Beyond Heating and AirSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Bickel's Maintenance & RefrigerationSanta Maria, CAListed in open place data
- Breen Automation SystemsSolvang, CAListed in open place data
- Buck's Movers Transport & StorageSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Cal-Coast RefrigerationSanta Maria, CAState license on record
- Capitol Industrial MaintSanta Maria, CAListed in open place data
- Central Coast BarrelsSanta Maria, CAListed in open place data
- Central Heating & Sheet MetalSanta Maria, CAState license on record
- Central Service & SupplyGoleta, CAListed in open place data
- Churchill Heating & Sheet MetalSanta Barbara, CAState license on record
- Clean Air MechanicalBuellton, CAListed in open place data
- Commercial Mechanical ServiceSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Creative Drywall WorksGoleta, CAListed in open place data
- Crocker Refrigeration Heating & AirSanta Barbara, CAState license on record
- Current Electric Santa BarbaraSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Dahl Air ConditioningGoleta, CAState license on record
- Dahl Air ConditioningBuellton, CAState license on record
- Econo West Heating Plumbing & AirSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Evans Plumbing & HeatingSanta Maria, CAListed in open place data
- Home FurnaceSanta Barbara, CAState license on record
- Hooper Heating & Air ConditioningLompoc, CAListed in open place data
- Hope Heating and Air ConditioningSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- J & R Heating & AirSanta Maria, CAListed in open place data
- J P Olivera Air & HeatingSanta Ynez, CAListed in open place data
- J R Barto Heating AC SmallSanta Maria, CAListed in open place data
- Johnstone SupplySanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Kittle Brian & KrisGoleta, CAListed in open place data
- Lee & Sons Plumbing & HeatingSanta Barbara, CAState license on record
- Main Street ProduceSanta Maria, CAListed in open place data
- McCormack Heating & Air ConditioningSanta Barbara, CAState license on record
- McGaughey PlumbingGoleta, CAListed in open place data
- Modern AirSanta Maria, CAListed in open place data
- Montecito Heating and Air ConditioningSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Moody Western CoolingGuadalupe, CAListed in open place data
- Murdochs HeatingSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Organ & Sons MechanicalSanta Maria, CAListed in open place data
- Pelonis Sound & AcousticsGoleta, CAListed in open place data
- Premier DrywallSanta Maria, CAListed in open place data
- Presto HVAC RepairSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Reliable HVAC IncLompoc, CAState license on record
- Santa Barbara Control SystemsSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Santa Maria Speedy RooterSanta Maria, CAListed in open place data
- Santa Rosa CoolingLompoc, CAListed in open place data
- ScreenmobileBuellton, CAListed in open place data
- Seek ThermalGoleta, CAListed in open place data
- Service NowGoleta, CAListed in open place data
- Shaffer DrywallSanta Maria, CAListed in open place data
- Shield Heating and AirSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- SMI HVAC ServicesSanta Maria, CAState license on record
- Stanley's Plumbing & HeatingSanta Ynez, CAListed in open place data
- Sunplan Lawrence ThompsonSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Total Heating, Air & FireplacesSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- True Heating and Air Conditioning ServiceSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- United RefrigerationSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- US Air Conditioning DistributorsSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Vern's Heating & AirSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data
- Wg Steel Heating & AirLompoc, CAListed in open place data
- Wick Boiler ServiceSanta Barbara, CAListed in open place data