Harrisburg / Red Lion
Red Lion has 6,516 residents (give or take 18) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US4263840, checked 2026-10-19), about 4,963 people per square mile.
Red Lion is about 30 miles from the Census center point for Harrisburg in a straight line and covers 1.313 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).
Median household income in Red Lion is $72,901 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B19013, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B19013?g=160XX00US4263840, 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.
4,963 people per square mile puts Red Lion in suburban density, where the outdoor unit usually sits in a side yard and the noise is not an issue for neighbors.
30% of Red Lion homes are single-family detached, 9% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 21% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=160XX00US4263840, checked 2026-10-19).
37% of Red Lion homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US4263840, checked 2026-10-19), so beside the 30% detached houses there is a real share of jobs where the landlord, not the resident, signs the quote.
Red Lion has 34 points fewer detached houses than York County overall (64%) and 13 points more five-plus-unit buildings than the county's 8% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=050XX00US42133, checked 2026-10-19).
Of the 2,709 occupied homes in Red Lion, 62% heat with natural gas, 6% with heating oil, 28% with electricity and 2% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US4263840, checked 2026-10-19).
Gas heats 62% of Red Lion against electricity at 28%, 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.
Red Lion has 7 points less oil heat than York County as a whole, where 13% of homes burn oil, and 4 points more electric heat than the county's 24% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US42133, checked 2026-10-19).
No electric utility is on file for Red Lion on this door yet, so this page does not name one; the name on the bill decides which rebate path applies.
Red Lion has 2,817 housing units, 49% built before 1940 and 78% before 1980, with 3% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US4263840, checked 2026-10-19).
Red Lion has 31 points more pre-1940 homes than York County as a whole (18%) and 18 points fewer homes built after 2000 than the county's 21% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=050XX00US42133, checked 2026-10-19). An older stock means more insulation upgrades before the heat pump goes in.
The median Red Lion home was built in 1941 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US4263840, checked 2026-10-19) and the median home has 5.9 rooms (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25018, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25018?g=160XX00US4263840, checked 2026-10-19).
49% of Red Lion homes were built before 1940 and 78% before 1980 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US4263840, 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.
Heating design temperature: 8F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), York 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 8F figure is the York County cold-day number a Red Lion heat pump is sized against, so ask the installer to show the system's heating output at 8F, not at the milder rating-label temperature.
Ask whether the quote is whole-home or partial-home, because with 62% of Red Lion on gas and 28% already electric the two paths carry different rebate figures and different sizing.
Ask for the heat-loss calculation room by room; a Red Lion house from before 1940 (49% of the 2,817 units) rarely matches a square-footage rule of thumb.
The form on this page is the follow-up for Red Lion. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.
No local contractor is named on this door for Red Lion yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.