Raleigh / Wake Forest
Wake Forest is about 12 miles from the Census center point for Raleigh in a straight line and covers 19.876 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).
Wake Forest has 52,844 residents (give or take 42) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US3770540, checked 2026-10-19), about 2,659 people per square mile.
Of the 18,403 occupied homes in Wake Forest, 58% heat with natural gas, 0% with heating oil, 41% with electricity and 1% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US3770540, checked 2026-10-19).
Wake Forest has about the Wake County oil share of 0% and 14 points less electric heat than the county's 55% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US37183, checked 2026-10-19).
Gas heats 58% of Wake Forest against electricity at 41%, so most quotes here are a partial-home system that carries the shoulder seasons and the summer while the gas furnace handles the coldest nights, or a whole-home system when the house is ready for it.
The median Wake Forest home was built in 2009 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US3770540, checked 2026-10-19) and the median home has 6.8 rooms (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25018, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25018?g=160XX00US3770540, checked 2026-10-19).
Wake Forest has 19,428 housing units, 2% built before 1940 and 8% before 1980, with 73% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US3770540, checked 2026-10-19).
Wake Forest has 23 points more homes built after 2000 than the county's 50% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=050XX00US37183, checked 2026-10-19).
73% of Wake Forest housing was built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US3770540, 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.
69% of Wake Forest homes are single-family detached, 4% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 16% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=160XX00US3770540, checked 2026-10-19).
26% of Wake Forest homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US3770540, checked 2026-10-19), so beside the 69% detached houses there is a real share of jobs where the landlord, not the resident, signs the quote.
Wake Forest has 11 points more detached houses than Wake County overall (58%) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=050XX00US37183, checked 2026-10-19).
No electric utility is on file for Wake Forest 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 Wake Forest is $123,802 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B19013, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B19013?g=160XX00US3770540, 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), Wake 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 Wake County cold-day number a Wake Forest 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 whether the quote is whole-home or partial-home, because with 58% of Wake Forest on gas and 41% already electric the two paths carry different rebate figures and different sizing.
Ask for the heat-loss calculation room by room; the median Wake Forest home has 6.8 rooms and was built around 2009, 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 Wake Forest. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.
No local contractor is named on this door for Wake Forest yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.