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HVAC contractors in Laredo, TX

The Laredo, TX metro area has 35 HVAC contractors, or 1.30 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
1.30 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
34.3%
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
87
Verify any single record at the board: TDLR license search.
Licenses lapsed in the last 12 months, derived
3
Employment and pay for this trade
180 employed, $48,450 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers. Median hourly wage $23.29. 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
35 independent, 0 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 0 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 269,148, 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 Laredo

By record count, HVAC is the second largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Laredo, behind other home service and ahead of landscaping. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Laredo.

Per resident, Laredo carries far fewer HVAC records than Texas as a whole.

The independent share of Laredo'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 Laredo'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 Laredo 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 Laredo, so no churn figure appears on this page rather than a zero standing in for one.

More active Texas licences covering HVAC in Laredo 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 180 workers across Laredo, 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 Laredo 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.

No Laredo HVAC record is waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts above account for the whole list.

No HVAC record in Laredo 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 Laredo 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, Laredo is 14th 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 Laredo are Bakersfield-Delano above it and Stockton-Lodi 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 Laredo

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