Metro fact page
HVAC contractors in Asheville, NC
The Asheville, NC metro area has 97 HVAC contractors, or 2.33 per 10,000 residents.
What HVAC work involves and how it is licensed is written once on the national HVAC page. North Carolina publishes no business-level licence source for HVAC, so this page shows no licensed share; the North Carolina page says what it does publish.
The facts
- HVAC contractors in this metro
- 97
- Per 10,000 residents
- 2.33 per 10,000
- Records first appearing in the last 12 months
- 5
- Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
- 0
- Licensed share
- Not published for this metroThere is no license source for this trade in North Carolina. 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
- 660 employed, $58,120 median annual wageOccupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers. Median hourly wage $27.94. 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
- 92 independent, 0 franchise brand, 3 corporate owned, 2 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 417,202, 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 Asheville
By record count, HVAC is the fourth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Asheville, behind electrical 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 Asheville.
Per resident, Asheville sits close to the North Carolina rate for HVAC, so the count at the top of this page reads as ordinary for the state.
The independent share of Asheville's HVAC records is close to the North Carolina figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.
North Carolina publishes no business-level licence source for HVAC that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Asheville 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 Asheville, 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 660 workers across Asheville, and this site publishes 97 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 Asheville HVAC records that are not independent, 0 are franchise brands and 3 are corporate-owned locations. The two are given as counts and not compared, because records here are still waiting on chain review.
Part of Asheville'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.
More HVAC records first appeared in Asheville 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 Asheville 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 9 North Carolina metro areas this site publishes a HVAC page for, Asheville is 6th of 9 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 North Carolina.
Ordered by HVAC records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a HVAC page for, the hubs either side of Asheville are Akron above it and Cedar Rapids below it.
HVAC contractors, A to Z
97 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship.
- 1st Choice Service Group Heating & AirAsheville, NCListed in open place data
- A & H Heating & CoolingFlat Rock, NCListed in open place data
- Above & Below PlumbingCandler, NCListed in open place data
- Absolute Cooling & Heating SolutionsAsheville, NCListed in open place data
- Ace Heating & CoolingBarnardsville, NCListed in open place data
- Air Craftsman Heating & CoolingAsheville, NCListed in open place data
- Air Excellence Heating & CoolCandler, NCListed in open place data
- Air PerfectionWeaverville, NCListed in open place data
- Airport Mountain EnergyArden, NCListed in open place data
- All About Heat & AirMills River, NCListed in open place data
- ALL WAYS Heating & AirWeaverville, NCListed in open place data
- Allen's Heating & AirSwannanoa, NCListed in open place data
- Andy's Heating & CoolingAsheville, NCListed in open place data
- Appalachian Comfort Systems And Controls Inc.East Flat Rock, NCListed in open place data
- Appalachian Contractors GroupHot Springs, NCListed in open place data
- Asheville Chimney ServiceAsheville, NCListed in open place data
- Austin's Heating & CoolingMars Hill, NCListed in open place data
- Baker Distributing CompanyHendersonville, NCListed in open place data
- Ball Lewis & Son Heating & Air Conditioning Repair ServiceBlack Mountain, NCListed in open place data
- Basement and Radon SolutionsHendersonville, NCListed in open place data
- Blue Ridge Alternative SepticBiltmore Lake, NCListed in open place data
- Blue Ridge RefrigerationAsheville, NCListed in open place data
- Bullman Heating & AirAsheville, NCListed in open place data
- BWC Heating & CoolingAsheville, NCListed in open place data
- Carolina Sewer & Drain Co.Fletcher, NCListed in open place data
- Control Specialties of AshevilleAsheville, NCListed in open place data
- Control Specialties-AshevilleFairview, NCListed in open place data
- Crawford Climate ControlMills River, NCListed in open place data
- Customer First Heating & CoolingSaluda, NCListed in open place data
- Dean's Heating & CoolingCandler, NCListed in open place data
- Duckett PlumbingFletcher, NCListed in open place data
- Ducky DuctsWeaverville, NCListed in open place data
- Farnam Customer ProductsArden, NCListed in open place data
- Flatrock Heating & CoolingHendersonville, NCListed in open place data
- Forsythe PlumbingHendersonville, NCListed in open place data
- Gemaire DistributorsArden, NCListed in open place data
- General Heating and Air ConditioningFlat Rock, NCListed in open place data
- Gentry HeatingAsheville, NCListed in open place data
- Gentry Service GroupSwannanoa, NCListed in open place data
- H & M ConstructorsAsheville, NCListed in open place data
- Harry's DitchingPenrose, NCListed in open place data
- Haynes Plumbing SystemsAsheville, NCListed in open place data
- Heatherly PlumbingHendersonville, NCListed in open place data
- Heatherly Plumbing ServiceFletcher, NCListed in open place data
- Henderson InsulationCandler, NCListed in open place data
- Hoffman Mechanical SolutionsAsheville, NCListed in open place data
- Hooker's Gap Welding and Fabrication/HvaLeicester, NCListed in open place data
- Icr Service GroupFlat Rock, NCListed in open place data
- Indoor Air TechnologiesMills River, NCListed in open place data
- J & C Heating & CoolingAsheville, NCListed in open place data
- J & M Heating & CoolingFletcher, NCListed in open place data
- Jerry's Heating & AirAsheville, NCListed in open place data
- Lancaster MechanicalHendersonville, NCListed in open place data
- Legacy Gas Piping & PlumbingHendersonville, NCListed in open place data
- Legacy Heating & AirWestern ,North Carolina, NCListed in open place data
- Lennox Stores (Parts Plus)Candler, NCListed in open place data
- Livingstone Plumbing ServiceArden, NCListed in open place data
- Marlowe GradingLeicester, NCListed in open place data
- Marshall Heating & Air ConditioningHendersonville, NCListed in open place data
- Mayberry Heating & CoolingWeaverville, NCListed in open place data
- MB Haynes CorporationAsheville, NCListed in open place data
- McKinney Heating & CoolingFletcher, NCListed in open place data
- Mechanical Building SystemsArden, NCListed in open place data
- Mechanical Building SystemsArden, NCListed in open place data
- Messer Heating & AirCandler, NCListed in open place data
- Moore Heating And CoolingHendersonville, NCListed in open place data
- Mountain Geothermal Heating and CoolingAsheville, NCListed in open place data
- Nesbitt's PlumbingFletcher, NCListed in open place data
- Perfect 72Black Mountain, NCListed in open place data
- Professional Mechanical ContractorsAsheville, NCListed in open place data
- Quality Comfort Heating & CoolingAsheville, NCListed in open place data
- Quality Comfort Heating & CoolingAsheville, NCListed in open place data
- R-Pro SelectFletcher, NCListed in open place data
- ResProAsheville, NCListed in open place data
- Rodriguez ElectricHendersonville, NCListed in open place data
- Ron Ward Plumbing & HeatingAsheville, NCListed in open place data
- Service TodayHendersonville, NCListed in open place data
- Sheer Comfort Heating & Air ConditioningFletcher, NCListed in open place data
- Sheer Comfort Heating & Air ConditioningAsheville, NCListed in open place data
- SM Mechanical Heating & CoolingSwannanoa, NCListed in open place data
- Smoky Mountain Heating & AirAsheville, NCListed in open place data
- Smoky Mountain Petroleum Co.Asheville, NCListed in open place data
- Solar DynamicsAsheville, NCListed in open place data
- Southeastern HVAC & RefrigerationZirconia, NCListed in open place data
- Southeastern MechanicalZirconia, NCListed in open place data
- Southern Comfort Heating & CoolingHendersonville, NCListed in open place data
- Splawn Electric & HeatingHendersonville, NCListed in open place data
- Sun Heating Supplies of N. C.Asheville, NCListed in open place data
- Trane SupplyAsheville, NCListed in open place data
- Tucker Heating & AirFlat Rock, NCListed in open place data
- Vince's PlumbingFletcher, NCListed in open place data
- Weber Heating & AirHendersonville, NCListed in open place data
- Wells Heating & CoolingMarshall, NCListed in open place data
- White & Williams Co.Asheville, NCListed in open place data
- Whitestar Solar EnergyAsheville, NCListed in open place data
- Wintenburg PlumbingLeicester, NCListed in open place data
- WNC Electronic ServiceFairview, NCListed in open place data
Other trades in Asheville
- Cleaning 80
- Electrical 99
- Flooring 78
- Landscaping 181
- Painting 49
- Pest control 18
- Plumbing 97
- Roofing 83
- Other home service 995
- All trades in Asheville
Pool has fewer than 8 publishable records in Asheville, so it is answered on the overview above instead.