New Orleans / Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge has 222,771 residents (give or take 54) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US2205000, checked 2026-10-19), about 2,562 people per square mile.
Baton Rouge is about 76 miles from the Census center point for New Orleans in a straight line and covers 86.943 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 Baton Rouge that is 70801, 70802, 70803, 70805, 70806, 70807, 70808, 70809 and 8 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 88,205 occupied homes in Baton Rouge, 31% heat with natural gas, 0% with heating oil, 67% with electricity and 1% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US2205000, checked 2026-10-19).
Electricity already heats 67% of Baton Rouge homes, ahead of gas at 31%, and a home on electric baseboard sees the biggest bill change from a heat pump because it replaces resistance heat one for one.
Baton Rouge has about the East Baton Rouge Parish oil share of 0% and 2 points more electric heat than the county's 65% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US22033, checked 2026-10-19).
Baton Rouge has 106,712 housing units, 6% built before 1940 and 58% before 1980, with 19% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US2205000, checked 2026-10-19).
The median Baton Rouge home was built in 1976 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US2205000, 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=160XX00US2205000, checked 2026-10-19).
55% of Baton Rouge homes are single-family detached, 11% 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=160XX00US2205000, checked 2026-10-19).
52% of Baton Rouge homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US2205000, checked 2026-10-19), so beside the 55% 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 Baton Rouge on this door yet, so this page does not name one; the name on the bill decides which rebate path applies.
Heating design temperature: 31F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), East Baton Rouge Parish row, 99% heating, PDF pages 51 to 54 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 31F figure is the East Baton Rouge Parish cold-day number a Baton Rouge heat pump is sized against, so ask the installer to show the system's heating output at 31F, not at the milder rating-label temperature.
Ask for the heat-loss calculation room by room; the median Baton Rouge home has 4.9 rooms and was built around 1976, 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 Baton Rouge. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.
No local contractor is named on this door for Baton Rouge yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.