HVAC Contractors in Texas: market size and renewals
The TDLR register lists 20,413 HVAC contractors in Texas. The densest county is Harris County with 3,143 of them, 15% of the state total. 3,083 come up for renewal within 90 days.
Where the competition is
Licence counts by county, densest first. Use it to see how contested a patch already is before you spend money marketing into it, or to find the countys where the register is thin.
| County | On record | Valid today | Not valid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harris County | 3,143 | 2,937 | 206 |
| Dallas County | 1,807 | 1,686 | 121 |
| Tarrant County | 1,402 | 1,312 | 90 |
| Bexar County | 1,338 | 1,262 | 76 |
| Travis County | 708 | 663 | 45 |
| Out Of State County | 707 | 628 | 79 |
| Collin County | 559 | 520 | 39 |
| Fort Bend County | 537 | 514 | 23 |
| Montgomery County | 528 | 497 | 31 |
| Williamson County | 490 | 461 | 29 |
| Hidalgo County | 488 | 450 | 38 |
| Denton County | 468 | 432 | 36 |
| El Paso County | 392 | 364 | 28 |
| Brazoria County | 273 | 255 | 18 |
| Nueces County | 272 | 254 | 18 |
| Galveston County | 261 | 228 | 33 |
| Lubbock County | 242 | 227 | 15 |
| Cameron County | 231 | 222 | 9 |
| Hays County | 228 | 221 | 7 |
| Ellis County | 219 | 208 | 11 |
| Johnson County | 208 | 193 | 15 |
| Kaufman County | 193 | 183 | 10 |
| Bell County | 188 | 176 | 12 |
| Mclennan County | 188 | 181 | 7 |
| Parker County | 188 | 176 | 12 |
Renewal pipeline
Licences with an expiry date inside each window, counted from the board file. A licence that has already lapsed or been suspended is excluded, so these are people who currently hold a valid licence and have a renewal coming.
New HVAC contractors per year
How many HVAC contractors currently on the register were first issued in each year. Older years thin out as licences lapse and drop off the file, so read this as the surviving cohort, not as the number issued at the time.
TDLR does not publish an issue date in its public file, so there is no way to count new HVAC contractors per year for Texas without inventing the number. The renewal pipeline above is published and is real.
Counted from the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation public licence file, reloaded August 18, 2026. Figures describe licences on record, not businesses: one company can hold several. Confirm anything that matters at TDLR.