Harrisburg / Strasburg
Strasburg has 3,109 residents (give or take 20) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US4274712, checked 2026-10-19), about 3,249 people per square mile.
Strasburg is about 42 miles from the Census center point for Harrisburg in a straight line and covers 0.957 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).
3,249 people per square mile puts Strasburg in suburban density, where the outdoor unit usually sits in a side yard and the noise is not an issue for neighbors.
Of the 1,297 occupied homes in Strasburg, 6% heat with natural gas, 25% with heating oil, 44% with electricity and 18% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US4274712, checked 2026-10-19).
Electricity already heats 44% of Strasburg homes, ahead of oil at 25%, and a home on electric baseboard sees the biggest bill change from a heat pump because it replaces resistance heat one for one.
Strasburg has 9 points more oil heat than Lancaster County as a whole, where 16% of homes burn oil, and 9 points more electric heat than the county's 35% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US42071, checked 2026-10-19).
Strasburg has 1,331 housing units, 24% built before 1940 and 53% before 1980, with 17% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US4274712, checked 2026-10-19).
Strasburg has 4 points more pre-1940 homes than Lancaster County as a whole (20%) and 4 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=050XX00US42071, checked 2026-10-19). An older stock means more insulation upgrades before the heat pump goes in.
The median Strasburg home was built in 1976 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US4274712, checked 2026-10-19) and the median home has 6.4 rooms (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25018, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25018?g=160XX00US4274712, checked 2026-10-19).
69% of Strasburg homes are single-family detached, 6% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 9% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=160XX00US4274712, checked 2026-10-19).
27% of Strasburg homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US4274712, 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.
Strasburg has 14 points more detached houses than Lancaster County overall (55%) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=050XX00US42071, checked 2026-10-19).
No electric utility is on file for Strasburg 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 Strasburg is $85,750 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B19013, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B19013?g=160XX00US4274712, 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: 8F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), Lancaster 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 Lancaster County cold-day number a Strasburg 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 for the heat-loss calculation room by room; the median Strasburg home has 6.4 rooms and was built around 1976, 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 Strasburg. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.
No local contractor is named on this door for Strasburg yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.