Harrisburg / Stroudsburg
Stroudsburg has 5,894 residents (give or take 21) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US4274888, checked 2026-10-19), about 3,417 people per square mile.
Stroudsburg is about 101 miles from the Census center point for Harrisburg in a straight line and covers 1.725 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 Stroudsburg is $66,674 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B19013, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B19013?g=160XX00US4274888, 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.
3,417 people per square mile puts Stroudsburg in suburban density, where the outdoor unit usually sits in a side yard and the noise is not an issue for neighbors.
37% of Stroudsburg homes are single-family detached, 27% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 19% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=160XX00US4274888, checked 2026-10-19).
58% of Stroudsburg homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US4274888, checked 2026-10-19), so beside the 37% detached houses there is a real share of jobs where the landlord, not the resident, signs the quote.
Stroudsburg has 47 points fewer detached houses than Monroe County overall (84%) and 16 points more five-plus-unit buildings than the county's 3% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=050XX00US42089, checked 2026-10-19).
58% of Stroudsburg homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US4274888, 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.
Of the 2,603 occupied homes in Stroudsburg, 33% heat with natural gas, 17% with heating oil, 40% with electricity and 9% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US4274888, checked 2026-10-19).
Electricity already heats 40% of Stroudsburg homes, ahead of gas at 33%, and a home on electric baseboard sees the biggest bill change from a heat pump because it replaces resistance heat one for one.
Stroudsburg has 6 points less oil heat than Monroe County as a whole, where 23% of homes burn oil, and 6 points less electric heat than the county's 46% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US42089, checked 2026-10-19).
No electric utility is on file for Stroudsburg on this door yet, so this page does not name one; the name on the bill decides which rebate path applies.
Stroudsburg has 2,973 housing units, 43% built before 1940 and 78% before 1980, with 6% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US4274888, checked 2026-10-19).
Stroudsburg has 34 points more pre-1940 homes than Monroe County as a whole (9%) and 13 points fewer homes built after 2000 than the county's 19% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=050XX00US42089, checked 2026-10-19). An older stock means more insulation upgrades before the heat pump goes in.
The median Stroudsburg home was built in 1951 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US4274888, checked 2026-10-19) and the median home has 4.9 rooms (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25018, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25018?g=160XX00US4274888, checked 2026-10-19).
43% of Stroudsburg homes were built before 1940 and 78% before 1980 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US4274888, 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: 5F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), Monroe 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 Monroe County cold-day number a Stroudsburg 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 for the heat-loss calculation room by room; a Stroudsburg house from before 1940 (43% of the 2,973 units) rarely matches a square-footage rule of thumb.
The form on this page is the follow-up for Stroudsburg. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.
No local contractor is named on this door for Stroudsburg yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.