Cleveland / Richmond Heights

Heat pump installation in Richmond Heights, OH - rebates, sizing and local data

Richmond Heights, 11 miles out

Richmond Heights is about 11 miles from the Census center point for Cleveland in a straight line and covers 4.433 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).

Richmond Heights has 10,626 residents (give or take 24) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US3966894, checked 2026-10-19), about 2,397 people per square mile.

The quote form takes a ZIP code; for Richmond Heights that is 44143 (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).

What heats Richmond Heights

Of the 4,910 occupied homes in Richmond Heights, 71% heat with natural gas, 0% with heating oil, 25% with electricity and 1% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US3966894, checked 2026-10-19).

Richmond Heights has about the Cuyahoga County oil share of 0% and 8 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).

Gas heats 71% of Richmond Heights against electricity at 25%, 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.

Age of the housing

The median Richmond Heights home was built in 1967 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US3966894, checked 2026-10-19) and the median home has 5.8 rooms (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25018, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25018?g=160XX00US3966894, checked 2026-10-19).

Richmond Heights has 5,542 housing units, 1% built before 1940 and 77% before 1980, with 11% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US3966894, checked 2026-10-19).

Richmond Heights has 27 points fewer pre-1940 homes than Cuyahoga County as a whole (28%) and 3 points more homes built after 2000 than the county's 8% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=050XX00US39035, checked 2026-10-19).

77% of Richmond Heights homes were built before 1980 and only 11% in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US3966894, 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.

House type

58% of Richmond Heights homes are single-family detached, 1% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 37% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=160XX00US3966894, checked 2026-10-19).

34% of Richmond Heights homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US3966894, checked 2026-10-19), so beside the 58% detached houses there is a real share of jobs where the landlord, not the resident, signs the quote.

Richmond Heights has 13 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).

Utility and rebate

No electric utility is on file for Richmond Heights on this door yet, so this page does not name one; the name on the bill decides which rebate path applies.

Median household income in Richmond Heights is $60,833 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B19013, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B19013?g=160XX00US3966894, 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.

Design temperature

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 Richmond 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.

Next step

Ask whether the quote is whole-home or partial-home, because with 71% of Richmond Heights on gas and 25% already electric the two paths carry different rebate figures and different sizing.

Ask for the heat-loss calculation room by room; the median Richmond Heights home has 5.8 rooms and was built around 1967, 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 Richmond Heights. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.

No local contractor is named on this door for Richmond Heights yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.

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