HVAC Cost Stats: Cape Coral, FL (2026)

The newest housing on our list

Cape Coral's median home was built in 2000, younger than any other metro we track.

Climate: Fort Myers Page Field, the nearest long-record NOAA station, averages 4,045.7 cooling degree days and 251.6 heating degree days.

Prices and pay

HVAC mechanics in the Cape Coral–Fort Myers MSA had a May 2025 median of $27.97/hr, or $58,170 a year. Florida's residential power price was 14.99¢/kWh in August 2026, and its 2025 gas average was $25.48/Mcf. Both energy figures cover the whole state, not Cape Coral alone.

Local services

Cape Coral is in Lee County. Electricity comes from LCEC (Lee County Electric Cooperative), and the City of Cape Coral handles HVAC permits.

See our Cape Coral AC replacement guide and the HVAC Cost Stats by Metro (2026) hub.

Housing stock and heating fuel in Cape Coral

The Cape Coral city limits held 233,025 residents and 87,681 occupied homes in the Census Bureau's ACS 2024 1-year American Community Survey. Electricity heats 91% of occupied homes and utility gas 1%, so heat pumps and straight-cool AC with electric strips are the systems most homeowners here are replacing. Bottled gas or propane heats 0%.

80% of housing units are single-family detached houses and 79% of occupied homes are owner-occupied. Detached, owner-occupied houses are where most whole-system replacements happen, because the owner chooses the equipment and each house has its own system. Apartments and condos more often use packaged units, wall units or building-managed systems.

These are city-limits figures, not metro-wide, and every survey estimate has a margin of error that you can see on the Census Reporter profile linked above. For city-by-city guides across the state, see the Florida HVAC cost guides hub.

Sources: BLS OEWS (SOC 49-9021, May 2025), EIA (state-level), U.S. Census ACS 2020–2024 5-year (B25035), NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals; housing and heating-fuel figures from Census ACS (ACS 2024 1-year, tables B01003, B25003, B25024, B25040), accessed October 31, 2026. Data accessed October 30, 2026. Cooling Direct, a DBA of Hamlin Mechanical LLC.