Metro fact page

HVAC contractors in Appleton, WI

The Appleton, WI metro area has 57 HVAC contractors, or 2.31 per 10,000 residents.

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

The facts

HVAC contractors in this metro: 57
Per 10,000 residents: 2.31 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 Wisconsin. 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: 320 employed, $61,600 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers. Median hourly wage $29.62. 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: 54 independent, 0 franchise brand, 1 corporate owned, 2 awaiting chain review
Universe quality: 3.39% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.00% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 246,433, 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 Appleton

By record count, HVAC is the fourth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Appleton, behind roofing 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 Appleton.

Per resident, Appleton carries fewer HVAC records than Wisconsin as a whole.

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

Wisconsin publishes no business-level licence source for HVAC that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Appleton 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 Appleton, 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 320 workers across Appleton, and this site publishes 57 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 Appleton HVAC records that are not independent, 0 are franchise brands and 1 are corporate-owned locations. The two are given as counts and not compared, because records here are still waiting on chain review.

Part of Appleton'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 Appleton 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 Appleton 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 Wisconsin metro areas this site publishes a HVAC page for, Appleton is 2nd of 4 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 Wisconsin.

Ordered by HVAC records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a HVAC page for, the hubs either side of Appleton are Toledo above it and Kingsport-Bristol below it.

HVAC contractors, A to Z

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

Show only listings claimed by the contractor

3rd Gospel Heating and CoolingAppleton, WIListed in open place data
A-1 Heating & Air ConditioningHortonville, WIListed in open place data
Absolute PlasteringAppleton, WIListed in open place data
ACC Planned ServiceAppleton, WIListed in open place data
Accurate Heating & Air ConditioningLittle Chute, WIListed in open place data
AdvantageAppleton, WIListed in open place data
Appleton Air Duct CleaningAppleton, WIListed in open place data
Ash Equipment Co.Appleton, WIListed in open place data
Balco BalancingAppleton, WIListed in open place data
Baumgart MechanicalKaukauna, WIListed in open place data
Black-Haak HeatingGreenville, WIListed in open place data
Born Heating & CoolingBrillion, WIListed in open place data
Bruss Heating & CoolingGreenville, WIListed in open place data
Bruss Heating & CoolingGreenville, WIListed in open place data
C & S Heating & Air ConditioningFreedom, WIListed in open place data
CentralAppleton, WIListed in open place data
Christensen Heating & Air ConditioningAppleton, WIListed in open place data
Cliff's Heating ServiceAppleton, WIListed in open place data
Cliffs Heating ServiceMenasha, WIListed in open place data
Dale Anderson HeatingBlack Creek, WIListed in open place data
Design AirAppleton, WIListed in open place data
Diedrick Heating & Air ConditioningSeymour, WIListed in open place data
Edw F Radtke & SonsAppleton, WIListed in open place data
First Choice Heating & ACKaukauna, WIListed in open place data
Flat Rate Fox CitiesAppleton, WIListed in open place data
Fuhrmann Heating & Cooling, IncBrillion, WIListed in open place data
Green MechanicalAppleton, WIListed in open place data
Heat & Power ProductsLittle Chute, WIListed in open place data
Heritage Heating & CoolingAppleton, WIListed in open place data
HVAC Design SolutionAppleton, WIListed in open place data
Integrity Heating & Air ConditioningAppleton, WIListed in open place data
Jeff's Water RepairHortonville, WIListed in open place data
Karls Mechanical ContractorsChilton, WIListed in open place data
Kavanaugh Refrigeration ServiceLittle Chute, WIListed in open place data
Kramer & Peterson Heating & CoolingLittle Chute, WIListed in open place data
Manitowoc Heating & Refrigeration ServicesNew Holstein, WIListed in open place data
Masters Building SolutionsAppleton, WIListed in open place data
One Hour Heating & Air ConditioningChilton, WIListed in open place data
One Hour Heating & Air ConditioningLittle Chute, WIListed in open place data
P & A Heating & Air ConditioningHilbert, WIListed in open place data
Pethan's Air Services of New HolsteinNew Holstein, WIListed in open place data
Pittl Heating & Sheet MetalNew Holstein, WIListed in open place data
Plaski PlumbingHortonville, WIListed in open place data
Pritzl MechanicalHortonville, WIListed in open place data
Quality MechanicalLittle Chute, WIListed in open place data
Randerson Heating & CoolingSeymour, WIListed in open place data
Randerson Heating & CoolingKaukauna, WIListed in open place data
SamsaAppleton, WIListed in open place data
Sid Harvey'sAppleton, WIListed in open place data
T & J Plumbing Of FreedomFreedom, WIListed in open place data
TraneAppleton, WIListed in open place data
Trane CommercialAppleton, WIListed in open place data
Valentine Plumbing & HeatingFreedom, WIListed in open place data
Van Ert ElectricFitchburg, WIListed in open place data
Van's RefrigerationOneida, WIListed in open place data
Wallis Heating & CoolingAppleton, WIListed in open place data
Weber SalesGreenville, WIListed in open place data

Other trades in Appleton

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