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HVAC contractors in Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA

The Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA metro area has 216 HVAC contractors, or 3.79 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
216
Per 10,000 residents
3.79 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
0
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 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
650 employed, $61,750 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers. Median hourly wage $29.69. 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
208 independent, 0 franchise brand, 2 corporate owned, 6 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.46% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.00% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 569,413, 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 Scranton--Wilkes-Barre

By record count, HVAC is the second largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, behind other home service and ahead of landscaping. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Scranton--Wilkes-Barre.

Per resident, Scranton--Wilkes-Barre carries more HVAC records than Pennsylvania as a whole.

The independent share of Scranton--Wilkes-Barre'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 Scranton--Wilkes-Barre 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 Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, 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 650 workers across Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, and this site publishes 216 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 Scranton--Wilkes-Barre HVAC records that are not independent, 0 are franchise brands and 2 are corporate-owned locations. The two are given as counts and not compared, because records here are still waiting on chain review.

Part of Scranton--Wilkes-Barre'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 in Scranton--Wilkes-Barre were flagged closed over the last twelve months than first appeared, so the file for this trade and metro shrank. A closed flag is a signal contributed upstream, not a confirmed closure.

No city inside Scranton--Wilkes-Barre 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, Scranton--Wilkes-Barre carries the most records per resident. 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 Scranton--Wilkes-Barre are Portland-South Portland above it and Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton below it.

HVAC contractors, A to Z

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

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