Charlotte / Hickory
Hickory has 44,258 residents (give or take 117) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US3731060, checked 2026-10-19), about 1,370 people per square mile.
Hickory is about 46 miles from the Census center point for Charlotte in a straight line and covers 32.294 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).
The quote form takes a ZIP code; for Hickory that is 28601 (Census 2020 ZCTA to county subdivision and ZCTA to place relationship files, ZIP areas at least 20% inside the town, https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/rel2020/zcta520/tab20_zcta520_cousub20_natl.txt and https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/rel2020/zcta520/tab20_zcta520_place20_natl.txt, checked 2026-10-19).
Of the 18,042 occupied homes in Hickory, 35% heat with natural gas, 2% with heating oil, 61% with electricity and 1% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US3731060, checked 2026-10-19).
Electricity already heats 61% of Hickory homes, ahead of gas at 35%, and a home on electric baseboard sees the biggest bill change from a heat pump because it replaces resistance heat one for one.
Hickory has about the Catawba County oil share of 2% and 12 points less electric heat than the county's 73% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US37035, checked 2026-10-19).
Hickory has 19,955 housing units, 9% built before 1940 and 47% before 1980, with 22% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US3731060, checked 2026-10-19).
The median Hickory home was built in 1982 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US3731060, 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=160XX00US3731060, checked 2026-10-19).
55% of Hickory homes are single-family detached, 10% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 27% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=160XX00US3731060, checked 2026-10-19).
45% of Hickory homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US3731060, checked 2026-10-19), so beside the 55% detached houses there is a real share of jobs where the landlord, not the resident, signs the quote.
No electric utility is on file for Hickory on this door yet, so this page does not name one; the name on the bill decides which rebate path applies.
Heating design temperature: 21F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), Catawba 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 21F figure is the Catawba County cold-day number a Hickory heat pump is sized against, so ask the installer to show the system's heating output at 21F, not at the milder rating-label temperature.
Ask for the heat-loss calculation room by room; the median Hickory home has 5.4 rooms and was built around 1982, 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 Hickory. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.
No local contractor is named on this door for Hickory yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.