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HVAC contractors in Madison, WI

The Madison, WI metro area has 146 HVAC contractors, or 2.10 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
146
Per 10,000 residents
2.10 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 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
1,020 employed, $63,150 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers. Median hourly wage $30.36. 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
143 independent, 0 franchise brand, 0 corporate owned, 3 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.68% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.00% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 694,345, 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 Madison

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

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

The independent share of Madison'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 Madison 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 Madison, 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 1,020 workers across Madison, and this site publishes 146 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 Madison 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.

Part of Madison'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 Madison 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 Madison 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, Madison 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 Wisconsin.

Ordered by HVAC records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a HVAC page for, the hubs either side of Madison are Columbia above it and Columbus below it.

HVAC contractors, A to Z

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

Other trades in Madison

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