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HVAC contractors in Reading, PA

The Reading, PA metro area has 142 HVAC contractors, or 3.28 per 10,000 residents.

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

The facts

HVAC contractors in this metro
142
Per 10,000 residents
3.28 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
1
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 Pennsylvania. 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
510 employed, $61,740 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers. Median hourly wage $29.68. 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
140 independent, 0 franchise brand, 0 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 432,821, 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 Reading

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

Per resident, Reading sits close to the Pennsylvania rate for HVAC, so the count at the top of this page reads as ordinary for the state.

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

Pennsylvania publishes no business-level licence source for HVAC that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Reading 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 Reading, 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 510 workers across Reading, and this site publishes 142 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 Reading 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.

Almost none of Reading's HVAC records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts above describe nearly the whole list.

HVAC records first appearing in Reading and records flagged closed were close to level over the last twelve months, so the file for this trade and metro held its size.

No city inside Reading 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 Pennsylvania metro areas this site publishes a HVAC page for, Reading is 4th 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 Pennsylvania.

Ordered by HVAC records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a HVAC page for, the hubs either side of Reading are Lake Charles above it and New Orleans-Metairie below it.

HVAC contractors, A to Z

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

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