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HVAC contractors in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL

The Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL metro area has 1,635 HVAC contractors, or 2.64 per 10,000 residents.

What HVAC work involves and how it is licensed is written once on the national HVAC page. Florida publishes a business-level licence source for HVAC, and the Florida page lists which classes count.

The facts

HVAC contractors in this metro
1,635
Per 10,000 residents
2.64 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
40
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
2
Licensed share, FL portion of this metro
6.9%
Share of this metro’s entities excluded as out-of-state: 0.0%. Florida issues both individual and qualified-business records, and qualified-business rows carry no trade code of their own. Only 12.4% of them resolve to a trade through the qualifying agent, so the Florida share is built in practice on individual certified licensees.
Active licenses with no public listing
1,566
Verify any single record at the board: DBPR licensee search.
Employment and pay for this trade
9,140 employed, $58,040 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers. Median hourly wage $27.90. 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
1,617 independent, 0 franchise brand, 10 corporate owned, 8 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.91% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.31% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 6,183,199, 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 Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach

By record count, HVAC is the second largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, behind other home service and ahead of plumbing. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach.

Per resident, Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach sits close to the Florida rate for HVAC, so the count at the top of this page reads as ordinary for the state.

The independent share of Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach's HVAC records is close to the Florida figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.

Far fewer of Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach's HVAC records are missing a street address than across Florida.

A smaller share of Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach's HVAC records link to an active state licence than the Florida figure for the same trade. Read it as a measurement of the join between two files rather than as a description of any record below.

Almost every Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach HVAC record sits inside Florida, the state the licensed share is computed inside, so that share covers nearly the whole metro.

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach has a count of HVAC licences issued in the last twelve months but no observable lapse count, so the issued figure is published alone rather than turned into a churn rate it cannot support.

Some active Florida licences covering HVAC in Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach 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 9,140 workers across Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, and this site publishes 1,635 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 Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach HVAC records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands.

Almost none of Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach'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 Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach 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 Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach 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 16 Florida metro areas this site publishes a HVAC page for, Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach is 7th of 16 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 Florida.

Ordered by HVAC records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a HVAC page for, the hubs either side of Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach are Albuquerque above it and Jackson below it.

HVAC contractors, A to Z

1,549 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 5 further pages linked below, not withheld.

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