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HVAC contractors in Richmond, VA

The Richmond, VA metro area has 297 HVAC contractors, or 2.20 per 10,000 residents.

What HVAC work involves and how it is licensed is written once on the national HVAC page. Virginia publishes no business-level licence source for HVAC, so this page shows no licensed share; the Virginia page says what it does publish.

The facts

HVAC contractors in this metro
297
Per 10,000 residents
2.20 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
11
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
1
Licensed share
Not published for this metro
There is no license source for this trade in Virginia. No HVAC record on this page is described one way or the other on the strength of a missing file.
Employment and pay for this trade
2,700 employed, $59,130 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers. Median hourly wage $28.43. 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
288 independent, 0 franchise brand, 5 corporate owned, 4 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
1.98% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.34% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 1,349,732, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023. 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 Richmond

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

Per resident, Richmond sits close to the Virginia rate for HVAC, so the count at the top of this page reads as ordinary for the state.

The independent share of Richmond's HVAC records is close to the Virginia figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.

Far more of Richmond's HVAC records carry no street address than across Virginia. What a blank street line is and is not is set out on the methodology page.

Virginia publishes no business-level licence source for HVAC that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Richmond is shown as not published rather than as zero, and no HVAC record on this page is described one way or the other on the strength of a file that does not exist.

No licence issuance or lapse figure is published for HVAC in Richmond, so no churn figure appears on this page rather than a zero standing in for one.

The occupational series the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes for this trade counts 2,700 workers across Richmond, and this site publishes 297 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 Richmond HVAC records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands.

Almost none of Richmond'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 Richmond 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 Richmond 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 4 Virginia metro areas this site publishes a HVAC page for, Richmond carries the fewest records per resident. The field is the metro areas this site publishes a HVAC page for rather than every metro area in Virginia.

Ordered by HVAC records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a HVAC page for, the hubs either side of Richmond are Salt Lake City-Murray above it and Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach below it.

HVAC contractors, A to Z

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

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