New Orleans / Houma
Houma has 32,392 residents (give or take 78) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US2236255, checked 2026-10-19), about 2,239 people per square mile.
Houma is about 57 miles from the Census center point for New Orleans in a straight line and covers 14.467 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).
Of the 13,346 occupied homes in Houma, 39% heat with natural gas, 0% with heating oil, 61% with electricity and 0% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US2236255, checked 2026-10-19).
Electricity already heats 61% of Houma homes, ahead of gas at 39%, and a home on electric baseboard sees the biggest bill change from a heat pump because it replaces resistance heat one for one.
Houma has about the Terrebonne Parish oil share of 1% and 4 points less electric heat than the county's 65% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US22109, checked 2026-10-19).
Houma has 14,945 housing units, 7% built before 1940 and 63% before 1980, with 19% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US2236255, checked 2026-10-19).
The median Houma home was built in 1973 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US2236255, checked 2026-10-19) and the median home has 6 rooms (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25018, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25018?g=160XX00US2236255, checked 2026-10-19).
85% of Houma homes are single-family detached, 3% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 8% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=160XX00US2236255, checked 2026-10-19).
With 85% detached houses and 3% in small multi-family buildings, a Houma quote is usually one or two outdoor units with ducted or ductless heads sized room by room. With 28% of Houma homes rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US2236255, checked 2026-10-19), the landlord signs the quote in many of them.
No electric utility is on file for Houma on this door yet, so this page does not name one; the name on the bill decides which rebate path applies.
Heating design temperature: 35F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), Terrebonne 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 35F figure is the Terrebonne Parish cold-day number a Houma heat pump is sized against, so ask the installer to show the system's heating output at 35F, not at the milder rating-label temperature.
Ask for the heat-loss calculation room by room; the median Houma home has 6 rooms and was built around 1973, 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 Houma. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.
No local contractor is named on this door for Houma yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.