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HVAC contractors in Brownsville-Harlingen, TX

The Brownsville-Harlingen, TX metro area has 67 HVAC contractors, or 1.57 per 10,000 residents.

What HVAC work involves and how it is licensed is written once on the national HVAC page. Texas publishes a business-level licence source for HVAC, and the Texas page lists which classes count.

The facts

HVAC contractors in this metro: 67
Per 10,000 residents: 1.57 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months: 1
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months: 1
Licensed share, TX portion of this metro: 37.3%
Share of this metro’s entities excluded as out-of-state: 0.0%. Texas publishes business-level records and blanks individual practitioners by policy, so a contractor licensed only as an individual cannot appear in this share. Texas also publishes no status column; status is derived from the expiration date and is labeled as derived.
Active licenses with no public listing: 192
Verify any single record at the board: TDLR license search.
Licenses lapsed in the last 12 months, derived: 8
Employment and pay for this trade: 260 employed, $47,910 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers. Median hourly wage $23.03. 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: 63 independent, 0 franchise brand, 1 corporate owned, 3 awaiting chain review
Universe quality: 1.47% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.49% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 426,710, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023. State license files, as of September 2, 2026. 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 Brownsville-Harlingen

By record count, HVAC is the second largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Brownsville-Harlingen, behind other home service 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 Brownsville-Harlingen.

Per resident, Brownsville-Harlingen carries fewer HVAC records than Texas as a whole.

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

Far more of Brownsville-Harlingen's HVAC records carry no street address than across Texas. What a blank street line is and is not is set out on the methodology page.

A far larger share of Brownsville-Harlingen's HVAC records link to an active state licence than the Texas figure for the same trade. That measures how well two files join in Brownsville-Harlingen, not whether the businesses in either one hold a licence.

Almost every Brownsville-Harlingen HVAC record sits inside Texas, the state the licensed share is computed inside, so that share covers nearly the whole metro.

No licence issuance or lapse figure is published for HVAC in Brownsville-Harlingen, so no churn figure appears on this page rather than a zero standing in for one.

More active Texas licences covering HVAC in Brownsville-Harlingen have no matching record in open place data than this page lists records at all, and none of those licences appear in the list below.

The occupational series the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes for this trade counts 260 workers across Brownsville-Harlingen, and this site publishes 67 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 Brownsville-Harlingen HVAC records that are not independent, 0 are franchise brands and 1 are corporate-owned locations. The two are given as counts and not compared, because records here are still waiting on chain review.

Part of Brownsville-Harlingen'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.

HVAC records first appearing in Brownsville-Harlingen 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 Brownsville-Harlingen 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 17 Texas metro areas this site publishes a HVAC page for, Brownsville-Harlingen is 11th of 17 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 Texas.

Ordered by HVAC records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a HVAC page for, the hubs either side of Brownsville-Harlingen are San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara above it and Kennewick-Richland below it.

HVAC contractors, A to Z

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

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911 Air Condition & RefrigerationBrownsville, TXState license on record
911 Air Condition & RefrigerationBrownsville, TXState license on record
A-1 Air Conditioning & HeatingPort Isabel, TXListed in open place data
A/C A's ServiceSan Benito, TXState license on record
AAA RepairSan Benito, TXListed in open place data
ACI Service-Air Conditioning & HeatingBrownsville, TXListed in open place data
Action AireBrownsville, TXListed in open place data
Advanced Air Conditioning Co.Harlingen, TXListed in open place data
Advill Air ConditioningHarlingen, TXState license on record
Advill Air ConditioningHarlingen, TXState license on record
Aire Service Heating & Air ConditioningHarlingen, TXListed in open place data
Airs CompanyHarlingen, TXState license on record
AirtechPort Isabel, TXListed in open place data
Arctic Refrigeration & A/CBrownsville, TXListed in open place data
BetacoSan Benito, TXListed in open place data
BJ's Septic TankSan Benito, TXListed in open place data
BristanBrownsville, TXListed in open place data
Carrier Air ConditioningBrownsville, TXListed in open place data
Cdm Contracting ServicesBrownsville, TXState license on record
Cdm Refrigeration & Air ConditioningBrownsville, TXListed in open place data
Cdm Refrigeration & Air ConditioningBrownsville, TXListed in open place data
Central Air & Heating ServiceHarlingen, TXState license on record
Central Air & Refrigeration ServicingBrownsville, TXListed in open place data
Central Air and Heating ServiceHarlingen, TXState license on record
Chaplin PlumbingSouth Padre Island, TXListed in open place data
Chico's Air ConditioningBrownsville, TXListed in open place data
Coastal Electric & Air ConditioningSan Benito, TXListed in open place data
Coastal Mechanical Service LimitedSan Benito, TXListed in open place data
Cold Breeze Air Conditioning & HeatingBrownsville, TXListed in open place data
Contract Service & SupplySouth Padre Island, TXState license on record
Dave's Service-TechBrownsville, TXListed in open place data
Delta Temp ServiceHarlingen, TXState license on record
Electric ControlBrownsville, TXListed in open place data
Excellent AirBrownsville, TXListed in open place data
Franks AC RepairLos Fresnos, TXListed in open place data
Galvan Air ConditioningBrownsville, TXListed in open place data
Gator PlumbingSouth Padre Island, TXListed in open place data
Gemaire DistributorsHarlingen, TXListed in open place data
General HVACLos Fresnos, TXState license on record
George Cunningham CoHarlingen, TXListed in open place data
Goflo SolutionsBrownsville, TXListed in open place data
Insco DistributingBrownsville, TXListed in open place data
Johnny's Residential Air ConditioningBrownsville, TXState license on record
Lopez Air ConditioningHarlingen, TXState license on record
Maydon AirHarlingen, TXListed in open place data
Modern Refrigeration & A/CBrownsville, TXListed in open place data
Norman's Air ConditioningBrownsville, TXState license on record
Pro Tech MechanicalHarlingen, TXListed in open place data
Rios Air ConditioningBrownsville, TXListed in open place data
Rite Temp Refrigeration and ACBrownsville, TXListed in open place data
Rusty's Refrigeration & Air ConditioningSan Benito, TXListed in open place data
S.R. MechanicalBrownsville, TXState license on record
Solar SupplyBrownsville, TXListed in open place data
Solar SupplyHarlingen, TXListed in open place data
Solidarity TexasBrownsville, TXListed in open place data
South Tek Heating & CoolingHarlingen, TXState license on record
Southeast Air ConditioningBrownsville, TXState license on record
Southern A/C & Heating SolutionsHarlingen, TXState license on record
SPI Go GreenBrownsville, TXListed in open place data
Temp ControlBrownsville, TXState license on record
Terra CoolingHarlingen, TXState license on record
Texas Lone Star AC & Heating LLCBrownsville, TXState license on record
Thermal AirLaguna Vista, TXState license on record
Tropical Air ConditioningLos Fresnos, TXState license on record
Two Seasons AirBrownsville, TXState license on record
Weather Control Air Conditioning & Refrigeration ServicesHarlingen, TXListed in open place data

Other trades in Brownsville-Harlingen

Pool has fewer than 8 publishable records in Brownsville-Harlingen, so it is answered on the overview above instead.