Raleigh / Graham
Graham has 18,048 residents (give or take 35) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US3727280, checked 2026-10-19), about 1,634 people per square mile.
Graham is about 45 miles from the Census center point for Raleigh in a straight line and covers 11.048 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).
Of the 8,095 occupied homes in Graham, 53% heat with natural gas, 1% with heating oil, 44% with electricity and 1% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US3727280, checked 2026-10-19).
Gas heats 53% of Graham against electricity at 44%, and a cold-climate heat pump sized for this market replaces the gas system outright, so the usual quote is a whole-home install.
Graham has about the Alamance County oil share of 1% and 8 points less electric heat than the county's 52% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US37001, checked 2026-10-19).
Graham has 8,946 housing units, 5% built before 1940 and 45% before 1980, with 33% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US3727280, checked 2026-10-19).
Graham tracks Alamance County on housing age, with the county at 7% pre-1940 and 32% post-2000 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=050XX00US37001, checked 2026-10-19).
The median Graham home was built in 1987 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US3727280, checked 2026-10-19) and the median home has 5.2 rooms (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25018, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25018?g=160XX00US3727280, checked 2026-10-19).
66% of Graham homes are single-family detached, 10% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 18% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=160XX00US3727280, checked 2026-10-19).
47% of Graham homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US3727280, checked 2026-10-19), so beside the 66% detached houses there is a real share of jobs where the landlord, not the resident, signs the quote.
47% of Graham homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US3727280, checked 2026-10-19), so the market splits between resident-led jobs where the occupant picks the system and landlord-led jobs where they do not, and the rebate paperwork differs.
No electric utility is on file for Graham 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 Graham is $56,239 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B19013, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B19013?g=160XX00US3727280, 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: 20F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), Alamance 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 20F figure is the Alamance County cold-day number a Graham heat pump is sized against, so ask the installer to show the system's heating output at 20F, not at the milder rating-label temperature.
Ask whether the quote is whole-home or partial-home, because with 53% of Graham on gas and 44% already electric the two paths carry different rebate figures and different sizing.
Ask for the heat-loss calculation room by room; the median Graham home has 5.2 rooms and was built around 1987, 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 Graham. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.
No local contractor is named on this door for Graham yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.