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HVAC contractors in Ocala, FL

The Ocala, FL metro area has 121 HVAC contractors, or 2.95 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
121
Per 10,000 residents
2.95 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
6
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
0
Licensed share, FL portion of this metro
8.3%
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
91
Verify any single record at the board: DBPR licensee search.
Employment and pay for this trade
600 employed, $49,020 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers. Median hourly wage $23.57. 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
117 independent, 0 franchise brand, 2 corporate owned, 2 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
2.42% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.00% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 409,959, 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 Ocala

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

Per resident, Ocala carries more HVAC records than Florida as a whole.

The independent share of Ocala'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.

A smaller share of Ocala'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 Ocala HVAC record sits inside Florida, the state the licensed share is computed inside, so that share covers nearly the whole metro.

Ocala 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 Ocala 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 600 workers across Ocala, and this site publishes 121 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 Ocala HVAC records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands.

Almost none of Ocala'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 Ocala 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 Ocala 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, Ocala is 4th of 16 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 Florida.

Ordered by HVAC records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a HVAC page for, the hubs either side of Ocala are Davenport-Moline-Rock Island above it and Baton Rouge below it.

HVAC contractors, A to Z

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

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