Cleveland / Mayfield Heights
Mayfield Heights has 20,022 residents (give or take 30) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US3948482, checked 2026-10-19), about 4,803 people per square mile.
Mayfield Heights is about 12 miles from the Census center point for Cleveland in a straight line and covers 4.169 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 Mayfield Heights that is 44124 (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).
Median household income in Mayfield Heights is $66,524 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B19013, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B19013?g=160XX00US3948482, 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.
4,803 people per square mile puts Mayfield Heights in suburban density, where the outdoor unit usually sits in a side yard and the noise is not an issue for neighbors.
47% of Mayfield Heights homes are single-family detached, 3% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 47% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=160XX00US3948482, checked 2026-10-19).
With 47% of Mayfield Heights homes in buildings of five or more units and 47% detached, the condo association usually decides where outdoor units can go, so that approval comes before the quote. With 51% of Mayfield Heights homes rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US3948482, checked 2026-10-19), the landlord signs the quote in many of them.
Mayfield Heights has 12 points fewer detached houses than Cuyahoga County overall (59%) and 23 points more five-plus-unit buildings than the county's 24% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=050XX00US39035, checked 2026-10-19).
51% of Mayfield Heights homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US3948482, 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 10,334 occupied homes in Mayfield Heights, 71% heat with natural gas, 0% with heating oil, 24% with electricity and 1% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US3948482, checked 2026-10-19).
Gas heats 71% of Mayfield Heights against electricity at 24%, so most quotes here are a partial-home system that carries the shoulder seasons and the summer while the gas furnace handles the coldest nights, or a whole-home system when the house is ready for it.
Mayfield Heights has about the Cuyahoga County oil share of 0% and 7 points more electric heat than the county's 17% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US39035, checked 2026-10-19).
No electric utility is on file for Mayfield Heights on this door yet, so this page does not name one; the name on the bill decides which rebate path applies.
Mayfield Heights has 10,615 housing units, 6% built before 1940 and 76% before 1980, with 6% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US3948482, checked 2026-10-19).
Mayfield Heights has 22 points fewer pre-1940 homes than Cuyahoga County as a whole (28%) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=050XX00US39035, checked 2026-10-19).
The median Mayfield Heights home was built in 1965 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US3948482, 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=160XX00US3948482, checked 2026-10-19).
76% of Mayfield Heights homes were built before 1980 and only 6% in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US3948482, checked 2026-10-19), so most of the stock predates modern insulation codes; the installer's heat-loss calculation, not a square-footage rule, decides the tonnage.
Heating design temperature: 9F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), Cuyahoga County row, 99% heating, PDF pages 94 to 97 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 9F figure is the Cuyahoga County cold-day number a Mayfield Heights heat pump is sized against, so ask the installer to show the system's heating output at 9F, not at the milder rating-label temperature.
Ask whether the quote is whole-home or partial-home, because with 71% of Mayfield Heights on gas and 24% already electric the two paths carry different rebate figures and different sizing.
Ask for the heat-loss calculation room by room; the median Mayfield Heights home has 4.9 rooms and was built around 1965, 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 Mayfield Heights. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.
No local contractor is named on this door for Mayfield Heights yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.