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HVAC contractors in College Station-Bryan, TX

The College Station-Bryan, TX metro area has 35 HVAC contractors, or 1.24 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
35
Per 10,000 residents
1.24 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
0
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
0
Licensed share, TX portion of this metro
31.4%
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
127
Verify any single record at the board: TDLR license search.
Licenses lapsed in the last 12 months, derived
5
Employment and pay for this trade
270 employed, $48,530 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers. Median hourly wage $23.33. 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
33 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 281,445, 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 College Station-Bryan

By record count, HVAC is the fourth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in College Station-Bryan, behind plumbing 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 College Station-Bryan.

Per resident, College Station-Bryan carries far fewer HVAC records than Texas as a whole.

The independent share of College Station-Bryan'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.

A larger share of College Station-Bryan's HVAC records link to an active state licence than the Texas figure for the same trade. That measures how well two files join here.

Almost every College Station-Bryan 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 College Station-Bryan, so no churn figure appears on this page rather than a zero standing in for one.

More active Texas licences covering HVAC in College Station-Bryan 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 270 workers across College Station-Bryan, and this site publishes 35 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 College Station-Bryan 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.

Part of College Station-Bryan'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.

No HVAC record in College Station-Bryan first appeared or was flagged closed over the last twelve months, so this page carries no twelve-month movement for this trade and metro.

No city inside College Station-Bryan 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, College Station-Bryan is 15th of 17 by records per resident, in the bottom quarter. 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 College Station-Bryan are Visalia above it and Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard below it.

HVAC contractors, A to Z

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

Other trades in College Station-Bryan

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