Charlotte / Winston-Salem
Winston-Salem has 252,037 residents (give or take 74) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US3775000, checked 2026-10-19), about 1,885 people per square mile.
Winston-Salem is about 70 miles from the Census center point for Charlotte in a straight line and covers 133.69 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 Winston-Salem that is 27101, 27103, 27104, 27105, 27106, 27107, 27109, 27110 and 1 more (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 103,058 occupied homes in Winston-Salem, 32% heat with natural gas, 4% with heating oil, 61% with electricity and 2% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US3775000, checked 2026-10-19).
Electricity already heats 61% of Winston-Salem homes, ahead of gas at 32%, and a home on electric baseboard sees the biggest bill change from a heat pump because it replaces resistance heat one for one.
Winston-Salem has about the Forsyth County oil share of 4% and 2 points less electric heat than the county's 63% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US37067, checked 2026-10-19).
Winston-Salem has 115,270 housing units, 8% built before 1940 and 48% before 1980, with 25% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US3775000, checked 2026-10-19).
The median Winston-Salem home was built in 1981 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US3775000, checked 2026-10-19) and the median home has 5.3 rooms (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25018, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25018?g=160XX00US3775000, checked 2026-10-19).
62% of Winston-Salem homes are single-family detached, 6% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 26% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=160XX00US3775000, checked 2026-10-19).
44% of Winston-Salem homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US3775000, checked 2026-10-19), so beside the 62% 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 Winston-Salem on this door yet, so this page does not name one; the name on the bill decides which rebate path applies.
Heating design temperature: 18F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), Forsyth 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 18F figure is the Forsyth County cold-day number a Winston-Salem heat pump is sized against, so ask the installer to show the system's heating output at 18F, not at the milder rating-label temperature.
Ask for the heat-loss calculation room by room; the median Winston-Salem home has 5.3 rooms and was built around 1981, 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 Winston-Salem. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.
No local contractor is named on this door for Winston-Salem yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.