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HVAC contractors in McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX

The McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX metro area has 103 HVAC contractors, or 1.15 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
103
Per 10,000 residents
1.15 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
2
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
0
Licensed share, TX portion of this metro
30.1%
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
397
Verify any single record at the board: TDLR license search.
Licenses lapsed in the last 12 months, derived
24
Employment and pay for this trade
530 employed, $47,170 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers. Median hourly wage $22.68. 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
98 independent, 0 franchise brand, 2 corporate owned, 3 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.00% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.94% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 898,471, 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 McAllen-Edinburg-Mission

By record count, HVAC is the second largest of the 11 trades this site counts in McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, 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 McAllen-Edinburg-Mission.

Per resident, McAllen-Edinburg-Mission carries far fewer HVAC records than Texas as a whole.

The independent share of McAllen-Edinburg-Mission'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 McAllen-Edinburg-Mission'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 larger share of McAllen-Edinburg-Mission'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 McAllen-Edinburg-Mission 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 McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, so no churn figure appears on this page rather than a zero standing in for one.

More active Texas licences covering HVAC in McAllen-Edinburg-Mission 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 530 workers across McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, and this site publishes 103 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 McAllen-Edinburg-Mission HVAC records that are not independent, 0 are franchise brands and 2 are corporate-owned locations. The two are given as counts and not compared, because records here are still waiting on chain review.

Part of McAllen-Edinburg-Mission'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.

More HVAC records first appeared in McAllen-Edinburg-Mission 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 McAllen-Edinburg-Mission 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, McAllen-Edinburg-Mission is 16th 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 McAllen-Edinburg-Mission are Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard above it and Urban Honolulu below it.

HVAC contractors, A to Z

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

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