Louisville / Pikeville
Pikeville has 7,490 residents (give or take 23) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US2160852, checked 2026-10-19), about 361 people per square mile.
Pikeville is about 177 miles from the Census center point for Louisville in a straight line and covers 20.764 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).
Median household income in Pikeville is $39,955 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B19013, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B19013?g=160XX00US2160852, 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.
Pikeville is spread out at 361 people per square mile across 20.764 square miles of land, so a long refrigerant line run between the outdoor unit and the farthest indoor head is the sizing question an installer checks first.
48% of Pikeville homes are single-family detached, 14% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 31% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=160XX00US2160852, checked 2026-10-19).
59% of Pikeville homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US2160852, checked 2026-10-19), so beside the 48% detached houses there is a real share of jobs where the landlord, not the resident, signs the quote.
Pikeville has 7 points fewer detached houses than Pike County overall (55%) and 25 points more five-plus-unit buildings than the county's 6% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=050XX00US21195, checked 2026-10-19).
59% of Pikeville homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US2160852, 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 3,323 occupied homes in Pikeville, 14% heat with natural gas, 0% with heating oil, 84% with electricity and 2% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US2160852, checked 2026-10-19).
Electricity already heats 84% of Pikeville homes, ahead of gas at 14%, and a home on electric baseboard sees the biggest bill change from a heat pump because it replaces resistance heat one for one.
Pikeville has about the Pike County oil share of 1% and 5 points more electric heat than the county's 79% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US21195, checked 2026-10-19).
No electric utility is on file for Pikeville on this door yet, so this page does not name one; the name on the bill decides which rebate path applies.
Pikeville has 3,623 housing units, 3% built before 1940 and 42% before 1980, with 26% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US2160852, checked 2026-10-19).
Pikeville has 4 points more homes built after 2000 than the county's 22% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=050XX00US21195, checked 2026-10-19).
The median Pikeville home was built in 1983 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US2160852, 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=160XX00US2160852, checked 2026-10-19).
Heating design temperature: 12F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), Pike County row, 99% heating, PDF pages 46 to 51 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 12F figure is the Pike County cold-day number a Pikeville heat pump is sized against, so ask the installer to show the system's heating output at 12F, not at the milder rating-label temperature.
Ask for the heat-loss calculation room by room; the median Pikeville home has 5.1 rooms and was built around 1983, 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 Pikeville. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.
No local contractor is named on this door for Pikeville yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.