Raleigh / Butner
Butner has 8,065 residents (give or take 46) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US3709360, checked 2026-10-19), about 585 people per square mile.
Butner is about 22 miles from the Census center point for Raleigh in a straight line and covers 13.793 square miles of land (Census 2024 Gazetteer internal points and land area, https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2024_Gazetteer/, checked 2026-10-19).
The quote form takes a ZIP code; for Butner that is 27509 (Census 2020 ZCTA to county subdivision and ZCTA to place relationship files, ZIP areas at least 20% inside the town, https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/rel2020/zcta520/tab20_zcta520_cousub20_natl.txt and https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/rel2020/zcta520/tab20_zcta520_place20_natl.txt, checked 2026-10-19).
Of the 2,683 occupied homes in Butner, 31% heat with natural gas, 1% with heating oil, 62% with electricity and 4% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US3709360, checked 2026-10-19).
Electricity already heats 62% of Butner homes, ahead of gas at 31%, and a home on electric baseboard sees the biggest bill change from a heat pump because it replaces resistance heat one for one.
Butner has about the Granville County oil share of 1% and 3 points less electric heat than the county's 65% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US37077, checked 2026-10-19).
Butner has 3,152 housing units, 1% built before 1940 and 29% before 1980, with 30% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US3709360, checked 2026-10-19).
Butner has 5 points fewer pre-1940 homes than Granville County as a whole (6%) and 6 points fewer homes built after 2000 than the county's 36% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=050XX00US37077, checked 2026-10-19).
The median Butner home was built in 1991 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US3709360, checked 2026-10-19) and the median home has 5.5 rooms (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25018, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25018?g=160XX00US3709360, checked 2026-10-19).
56% of Butner homes are single-family detached, 5% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 13% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=160XX00US3709360, checked 2026-10-19).
26% of Butner homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US3709360, checked 2026-10-19), so beside the 56% detached houses there is a real share of jobs where the landlord, not the resident, signs the quote.
Butner has 15 points fewer detached houses than Granville County overall (71%) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=050XX00US37077, checked 2026-10-19).
No electric utility is on file for Butner on this door yet, so this page does not name one; the name on the bill decides which rebate path applies.
Median household income in Butner is $74,739 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B19013, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B19013?g=160XX00US3709360, checked 2026-10-19); many state and utility heat pump rebate programs set higher incentive tiers for income-qualifying households, so the household income on the application, not the town median, decides which level applies.
Heating design temperature: 15F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), Granville County row, 99% heating, PDF pages 86 to 90 of 141 (Revised 11/11/2020), https://www.energystar.gov/sites/default/files/Design%20Temperature%20Limit%20Reference%20Guide%20(2019%20Ed)%20-%20ENERGY%20STAR%20Single-Family%20New%20Homes_Rev11.pdf, fetched 2026-10-19, 99%.
That 15F figure is the Granville County cold-day number a Butner heat pump is sized against, so ask the installer to show the system's heating output at 15F, not at the milder rating-label temperature.
Ask for the heat-loss calculation room by room; the median Butner home has 5.5 rooms and was built around 1991, and the count of heads and the tonnage follow the rooms and the insulation, not the square footage.
The form on this page is the follow-up for Butner. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.
No local contractor is named on this door for Butner yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.