New Orleans / Opelousas
Opelousas has 15,495 residents (give or take 41) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US2258045, checked 2026-10-19), about 1,602 people per square mile.
Opelousas is about 132 miles from the Census center point for New Orleans in a straight line and covers 9.672 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 6,278 occupied homes in Opelousas, 39% heat with natural gas, 0% with heating oil, 60% with electricity and 0% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US2258045, checked 2026-10-19).
Electricity already heats 60% of Opelousas 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.
Opelousas has about the St. Landry Parish oil share of 0% and 13 points less electric heat than the county's 73% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US22097, checked 2026-10-19).
Opelousas has 7,493 housing units, 4% built before 1940 and 61% before 1980, with 15% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US2258045, checked 2026-10-19).
Opelousas has 9 points fewer homes built after 2000 than the county's 24% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=050XX00US22097, checked 2026-10-19).
The median Opelousas home was built in 1975 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US2258045, checked 2026-10-19) and the median home has 5.2 rooms (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25018, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25018?g=160XX00US2258045, checked 2026-10-19).
68% of Opelousas homes are single-family detached, 9% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 9% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=160XX00US2258045, checked 2026-10-19).
47% of Opelousas homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US2258045, checked 2026-10-19), so beside the 68% detached houses there is a real share of jobs where the landlord, not the resident, signs the quote.
47% of Opelousas homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US2258045, 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.
61% of Opelousas homes were built before 1980 and only 15% in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US2258045, 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.
No electric utility is on file for Opelousas 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 Opelousas is $32,964 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B19013, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B19013?g=160XX00US2258045, 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.
Heating design temperature: 32F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), St. Landry 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 32F figure is the St. Landry Parish cold-day number a Opelousas heat pump is sized against, so ask the installer to show the system's heating output at 32F, not at the milder rating-label temperature.
Ask for the heat-loss calculation room by room; the median Opelousas home has 5.2 rooms and was built around 1975, 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 Opelousas. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.
No local contractor is named on this door for Opelousas yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.