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HVAC contractors in Waterbury-Shelton, CT

The Waterbury-Shelton, CT metro area has 151 HVAC contractors, or 3.31 per 10,000 residents.

What HVAC work involves and how it is licensed is written once on the national HVAC page. Connecticut publishes no business-level licence source for HVAC, so this page shows no licensed share; the Connecticut page says what it does publish.

The facts

HVAC contractors in this metro
151
Per 10,000 residents
3.31 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
2
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
1
Licensed share
Not published for this metro
There is no license source for this trade in Connecticut. No HVAC record on this page is described one way or the other on the strength of a missing file.
Employment and pay for this trade
390 employed, $72,710 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers. Median hourly wage $34.96. 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
151 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 456,128, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023. 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 Waterbury-Shelton

By record count, HVAC is the third largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Waterbury-Shelton, behind landscaping and ahead of painting. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Waterbury-Shelton.

Per resident, Waterbury-Shelton sits close to the Connecticut rate for HVAC, so the count at the top of this page reads as ordinary for the state.

The independent share of Waterbury-Shelton's HVAC records is close to the Connecticut figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.

Connecticut publishes no business-level licence source for HVAC that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Waterbury-Shelton is shown as not published rather than as zero, and no HVAC record on this page is described one way or the other on the strength of a file that does not exist.

No licence issuance or lapse figure is published for HVAC in Waterbury-Shelton, so no churn figure appears on this page rather than a zero standing in for one.

The occupational series the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes for this trade counts 390 workers across Waterbury-Shelton, and this site publishes 151 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 Waterbury-Shelton 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 Waterbury-Shelton 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 Waterbury-Shelton 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 Waterbury-Shelton 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 5 Connecticut metro areas this site publishes a HVAC page for, Waterbury-Shelton is 2nd of 5 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 Connecticut.

Ordered by HVAC records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a HVAC page for, the hubs either side of Waterbury-Shelton are Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury above it and Lake Charles below it.

HVAC contractors, A to Z

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

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