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HVAC contractors in Killeen-Temple, TX

The Killeen-Temple, TX metro area has 78 HVAC contractors, or 1.56 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
78
Per 10,000 residents
1.56 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
7
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
0
Licensed share, TX portion of this metro
19.2%
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
192
Verify any single record at the board: TDLR license search.
Licenses lapsed in the last 12 months, derived
11
Employment and pay for this trade
410 employed, $49,630 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers. Median hourly wage $23.86. 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
76 independent, 0 franchise brand, 1 corporate owned, 1 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.00% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.28% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 501,333, 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 Killeen-Temple

By record count, HVAC is the third largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Killeen-Temple, behind landscaping 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 Killeen-Temple.

Per resident, Killeen-Temple carries fewer HVAC records than Texas as a whole.

The independent share of Killeen-Temple'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 Killeen-Temple'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 smaller share of Killeen-Temple's HVAC records link to an active state licence than the Texas figure for the same trade. Read it as a measurement of the join between two files rather than as a description of any record below.

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

More active Texas licences covering HVAC in Killeen-Temple 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 410 workers across Killeen-Temple, and this site publishes 78 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 Killeen-Temple HVAC records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands.

Almost none of Killeen-Temple'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 Killeen-Temple 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 Killeen-Temple 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, Killeen-Temple is 12th 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 Killeen-Temple are Kennewick-Richland above it and Tuscaloosa below it.

HVAC contractors, A to Z

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

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