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HVAC contractors in Providence-Warwick, RI-MA

The Providence-Warwick, RI-MA metro area has 445 HVAC contractors, or 2.65 per 10,000 residents.

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

The facts

HVAC contractors in this metro
445
Per 10,000 residents
2.65 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
10
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 Rhode Island. 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
1,930 employed, $67,380 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers. Median hourly wage $32.39. 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
435 independent, 2 franchise brand, 4 corporate owned, 4 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.22% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.00% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 1,677,803, 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 Providence-Warwick

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

Per resident, Providence-Warwick sits close to the Rhode Island rate for HVAC, so the count at the top of this page reads as ordinary for the state.

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

Rhode Island publishes no business-level licence source for HVAC that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Providence-Warwick 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 Providence-Warwick, 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 1,930 workers across Providence-Warwick, and this site publishes 445 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 Providence-Warwick HVAC records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands.

Almost none of Providence-Warwick'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 Providence-Warwick 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 Providence-Warwick differs from the metro enough on HVAC to carry a page of its own, so every record here is answered on this page.

Providence-Warwick is the only Rhode Island metro area this site publishes a HVAC page for, so there is no second Rhode Island hub of this trade to rank it against.

Ordered by HVAC records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a HVAC page for, the hubs either side of Providence-Warwick are Kalamazoo-Portage above it and Green Bay below it.

HVAC contractors, A to Z

441 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 1 further pages linked below, not withheld.

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