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HVAC contractors in Roanoke, VA

The Roanoke, VA metro area has 101 HVAC contractors, or 3.21 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
101
Per 10,000 residents
3.21 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
0
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
0
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
660 employed, $49,230 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers. Median hourly wage $23.67. 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
94 independent, 0 franchise brand, 4 corporate owned, 3 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
1.94% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.00% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 314,314, 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 Roanoke

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

Per resident, Roanoke carries far more HVAC records than Virginia as a whole.

The independent share of Roanoke'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.

Virginia publishes no business-level licence source for HVAC that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Roanoke 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 Roanoke, 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 660 workers across Roanoke, and this site publishes 101 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 Roanoke HVAC records that are not independent, 0 are franchise brands and 4 are corporate-owned locations. The two are given as counts and not compared, because records here are still waiting on chain review.

Part of Roanoke'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.

No HVAC record in Roanoke 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 Roanoke 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, Roanoke carries the most 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 Roanoke are Cape Coral-Fort Myers above it and Wilmington below it.

HVAC contractors, A to Z

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

Other trades in Roanoke

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