New Orleans / Minden
Minden has 11,455 residents (give or take 28) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US2250885, checked 2026-10-19), about 762 people per square mile.
Minden is about 265 miles from the Census center point for New Orleans in a straight line and covers 15.037 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 4,578 occupied homes in Minden, 58% heat with natural gas, 0% with heating oil, 41% with electricity and 0% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US2250885, checked 2026-10-19).
Gas heats 58% of Minden against electricity at 41%, so most quotes here are a partial-home system that carries the shoulder seasons and the summer while the gas boiler stays for the deepest cold, or a whole-home system when the house is ready for it.
Minden has about the Webster Parish oil share of 0% and 9 points less electric heat than the county's 50% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US22119, checked 2026-10-19).
Minden has 5,703 housing units, 6% built before 1940 and 78% before 1980, with 8% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US2250885, checked 2026-10-19).
The median Minden home was built in 1968 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US2250885, 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=160XX00US2250885, checked 2026-10-19).
76% of Minden homes are single-family detached, 8% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 7% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=160XX00US2250885, checked 2026-10-19).
With 76% detached houses and 8% in small multi-family buildings, a Minden quote is usually one or two outdoor units with ducted or ductless heads sized room by room. With 51% of Minden homes rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US2250885, checked 2026-10-19), the landlord signs the quote in many of them.
No electric utility is on file for Minden on this door yet, so this page does not name one; the name on the bill decides which rebate path applies.
Heating design temperature: 25F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), Webster 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 25F figure is the Webster Parish cold-day number a Minden heat pump is sized against, so ask the installer to show the system's heating output at 25F, not at the milder rating-label temperature.
Ask whether the quote is whole-home or partial-home, because with 58% of Minden on gas and 41% already electric the two paths carry different rebate figures and different sizing.
Ask for the heat-loss calculation room by room; the median Minden home has 5.1 rooms and was built around 1968, 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 Minden. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.
No local contractor is named on this door for Minden yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.