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HVAC contractors in Kennewick-Richland, WA

The Kennewick-Richland, WA metro area has 49 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. Washington publishes no business-level licence source for HVAC, so this page shows no licensed share; the Washington page says what it does publish.

The facts

HVAC contractors in this metro
49
Per 10,000 residents
1.56 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
1
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 Washington. 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
520 employed, $75,660 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers. Median hourly wage $36.38. 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
49 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 314,253, 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 Kennewick-Richland

By record count, HVAC is the fourth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Kennewick-Richland, behind flooring and ahead of cleaning. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Kennewick-Richland.

Per resident, Kennewick-Richland sits close to the Washington rate for HVAC, so the count at the top of this page reads as ordinary for the state.

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

Washington publishes no business-level licence source for HVAC that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Kennewick-Richland 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 Kennewick-Richland, 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 520 workers across Kennewick-Richland, and this site publishes 49 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 Kennewick-Richland 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 Kennewick-Richland HVAC record is waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts above account for the whole list.

More HVAC records first appeared in Kennewick-Richland 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 Kennewick-Richland 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 6 Washington metro areas this site publishes a HVAC page for, Kennewick-Richland is 3rd of 6 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 Washington.

Ordered by HVAC records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a HVAC page for, the hubs either side of Kennewick-Richland are Brownsville-Harlingen above it and Killeen-Temple below it.

HVAC contractors, A to Z

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

Other trades in Kennewick-Richland

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