Harrisburg / Clearfield
Clearfield has 5,873 residents (give or take 15) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US4214064, checked 2026-10-19), about 3,257 people per square mile.
Clearfield is about 96 miles from the Census center point for Harrisburg in a straight line and covers 1.803 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).
3,257 people per square mile puts Clearfield in suburban density, where the outdoor unit usually sits in a side yard and the noise is not an issue for neighbors.
Of the 2,664 occupied homes in Clearfield, 32% heat with natural gas, 37% with heating oil, 28% with electricity and 1% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US4214064, checked 2026-10-19).
Heating oil is the largest single fuel in Clearfield at 37%, ahead of gas at 32%, so the usual job here is an oil boiler or furnace coming out and a cold-climate heat pump going in, with the oil tank removed.
Clearfield has 3 points less oil heat than Clearfield County as a whole, where 40% of homes burn oil, and 15 points more electric heat than the county's 13% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US42033, checked 2026-10-19).
Clearfield has 3,139 housing units, 38% built before 1940 and 89% before 1980, with 2% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US4214064, checked 2026-10-19).
Clearfield has 12 points more pre-1940 homes than Clearfield County as a whole (26%) and 10 points fewer homes built after 2000 than the county's 12% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=050XX00US42033, checked 2026-10-19). An older stock means more insulation upgrades before the heat pump goes in.
The median Clearfield home was built in 1950 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US4214064, checked 2026-10-19) and the median home has 5.4 rooms (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25018, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25018?g=160XX00US4214064, checked 2026-10-19).
60% of Clearfield homes are single-family detached, 20% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 14% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=160XX00US4214064, checked 2026-10-19).
45% of Clearfield homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US4214064, checked 2026-10-19), so beside the 60% detached houses there is a real share of jobs where the landlord, not the resident, signs the quote.
Clearfield has 15 points fewer detached houses than Clearfield County overall (75%) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=050XX00US42033, checked 2026-10-19).
45% of Clearfield homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US4214064, 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.
38% of Clearfield homes were built before 1940 and 89% before 1980 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US4214064, checked 2026-10-19), so insulation is the first sizing question: an older home leaks more heat per square foot, and the installer runs a room-by-room heat-loss calculation to size the system for what the walls and windows actually hold in, not just the floor plan.
No electric utility is on file for Clearfield 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 Clearfield is $54,646 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B19013, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B19013?g=160XX00US4214064, 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: 5F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), Clearfield County row, 99% heating, PDF pages 102 to 105 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 5F figure is the Clearfield County cold-day number a Clearfield heat pump is sized against, so ask the installer to show the system's heating output at 5F, not at the milder rating-label temperature.
Ask what happens to the oil tank, since 37% of the 2,664 occupied Clearfield homes have one and removal is usually a separate line on the quote.
Ask for the heat-loss calculation room by room; a Clearfield house from before 1940 (38% of the 3,139 units) rarely matches a square-footage rule of thumb.
The form on this page is the follow-up for Clearfield. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.
No local contractor is named on this door for Clearfield yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.