Raleigh / Mebane
Mebane has 19,538 residents (give or take 34) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US3742240, checked 2026-10-19), about 1,598 people per square mile.
Mebane is about 40 miles from the Census center point for Raleigh in a straight line and covers 12.228 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 7,857 occupied homes in Mebane, 44% heat with natural gas, 0% with heating oil, 54% with electricity and 1% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US3742240, checked 2026-10-19).
Electricity already heats 54% of Mebane homes, ahead of gas at 44%, and a home on electric baseboard sees the biggest bill change from a heat pump because it replaces resistance heat one for one.
Mebane has about the Alamance County oil share of 1% and 2 points more 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).
Mebane has 8,605 housing units, 5% built before 1940 and 20% before 1980, with 61% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US3742240, checked 2026-10-19).
Mebane has 29 points more homes built after 2000 than the county's 32% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=050XX00US37001, checked 2026-10-19).
The median Mebane home was built in 2005 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US3742240, checked 2026-10-19) and the median home has 5.6 rooms (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25018, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25018?g=160XX00US3742240, checked 2026-10-19).
59% of Mebane homes are single-family detached, 4% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 32% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=160XX00US3742240, checked 2026-10-19).
39% of Mebane homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US3742240, checked 2026-10-19), so beside the 59% detached houses there is a real share of jobs where the landlord, not the resident, signs the quote.
Mebane has 7 points fewer detached houses than Alamance County overall (66%) and 18 points more five-plus-unit buildings than the county's 14% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=050XX00US37001, checked 2026-10-19).
61% of Mebane housing was built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US3742240, checked 2026-10-19), and homes that recent usually meet the insulation codes in place at the time, so a heat pump sized to the floor plan lands closer to the real load than it would in an older neighborhood.
No electric utility is on file for Mebane 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 Mebane is $83,174 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B19013, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B19013?g=160XX00US3742240, 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 Mebane 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 for the heat-loss calculation room by room; the median Mebane home has 5.6 rooms and was built around 2005, 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 Mebane. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.
No local contractor is named on this door for Mebane yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.