Charlotte / Kinston
Kinston has 19,505 residents (give or take 26) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US3735920, checked 2026-10-19), about 1,067 people per square mile.
Kinston is about 183 miles from the Census center point for Charlotte in a straight line and covers 18.276 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).
Of the 8,891 occupied homes in Kinston, 35% heat with natural gas, 2% with heating oil, 55% with electricity and 6% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US3735920, checked 2026-10-19).
Electricity already heats 55% of Kinston 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.
Kinston has about the Lenoir County oil share of 1% and 14 points less electric heat than the county's 69% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US37107, checked 2026-10-19).
Kinston has 10,599 housing units, 12% built before 1940 and 75% before 1980, with 6% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US3735920, checked 2026-10-19).
The median Kinston home was built in 1966 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US3735920, checked 2026-10-19) and the median home has 5.1 rooms (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25018, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25018?g=160XX00US3735920, checked 2026-10-19).
63% of Kinston homes are single-family detached, 13% 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=160XX00US3735920, checked 2026-10-19).
57% of Kinston homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US3735920, checked 2026-10-19), so beside the 63% 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 Kinston on this door yet, so this page does not name one; the name on the bill decides which rebate path applies.
Heating design temperature: 24F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), Lenoir 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 24F figure is the Lenoir County cold-day number a Kinston heat pump is sized against, so ask the installer to show the system's heating output at 24F, not at the milder rating-label temperature.
Ask for the heat-loss calculation room by room; the median Kinston home has 5.1 rooms and was built around 1966, 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 Kinston. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.
No local contractor is named on this door for Kinston yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.