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HVAC contractors in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX

The Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX metro area has 1,819 HVAC contractors, or 2.25 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
1,819
Per 10,000 residents
2.25 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
65
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
5
Licensed share, TX portion of this metro
22.2%
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
4,244
Verify any single record at the board: TDLR license search.
Licenses lapsed in the last 12 months, derived
244
Employment and pay for this trade
10,910 employed, $59,560 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers. Median hourly wage $28.63. 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
1,792 independent, 3 franchise brand, 7 corporate owned, 17 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
1.30% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.71% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 8,100,037, 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 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington

By record count, HVAC is the fourth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, behind roofing 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 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington.

Per resident, Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington sits close to the Texas rate for HVAC, so the count at the top of this page reads as ordinary for the state.

The independent share of Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington'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 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington'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.

The share of Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington's HVAC records linking to an active state licence is close to the Texas figure for the same trade.

Almost every Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington 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 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, so no churn figure appears on this page rather than a zero standing in for one.

More active Texas licences covering HVAC in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington 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 10,910 workers across Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, and this site publishes 1,819 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 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington HVAC records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands.

Almost none of Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington'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 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington 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 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington 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, Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington is 4th of 17 by records per resident, inside the top 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 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington are Detroit-Warren-Dearborn above it and Tyler below it.

HVAC contractors, A to Z

1,799 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 5 further pages linked below, not withheld.

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