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HVAC contractors in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI

The Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI metro area has 976 HVAC contractors, or 2.25 per 10,000 residents.

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

The facts

HVAC contractors in this metro
976
Per 10,000 residents
2.25 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
16
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
2
Licensed share
Not published for this metro
There is no license source for this trade in Michigan. 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
5,740 employed, $63,170 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers. Median hourly wage $30.37. 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
963 independent, 1 franchise brand, 2 corporate owned, 10 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.81% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.51% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 4,342,304, 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 Detroit-Warren-Dearborn

By record count, HVAC is the third largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, behind landscaping 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 Detroit-Warren-Dearborn.

Per resident, Detroit-Warren-Dearborn sits close to the Michigan rate for HVAC, so the count at the top of this page reads as ordinary for the state.

The independent share of Detroit-Warren-Dearborn's HVAC records is close to the Michigan figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.

More of Detroit-Warren-Dearborn's HVAC records carry no street address than across Michigan.

Michigan publishes no business-level licence source for HVAC that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Detroit-Warren-Dearborn 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 Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, 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 5,740 workers across Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, and this site publishes 976 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 Detroit-Warren-Dearborn HVAC records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands.

Almost none of Detroit-Warren-Dearborn'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 Detroit-Warren-Dearborn 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.

One city inside Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, Livonia, differs from the wider metro enough on HVAC to carry a page of its own.

Among the 6 Michigan metro areas this site publishes a HVAC page for, Detroit-Warren-Dearborn is 3rd of 6 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 Michigan.

Ordered by HVAC records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a HVAC page for, the hubs either side of Detroit-Warren-Dearborn are Denver-Aurora-Centennial above it and Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington below it.

HVAC contractors, A to Z

968 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 3 further pages linked below, not withheld. The city pages below cover the same metro in smaller pieces.

HVAC by city

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