New Orleans / Westwego
Westwego has 8,335 residents (give or take 21) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US2281165, checked 2026-10-19), about 2,675 people per square mile.
Westwego is about 16 miles from the Census center point for New Orleans in a straight line and covers 3.116 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 3,663 occupied homes in Westwego, 35% heat with natural gas, 0% with heating oil, 64% with electricity and 0% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US2281165, checked 2026-10-19).
Electricity already heats 64% of Westwego homes, ahead of gas at 35%, and a home on electric baseboard sees the biggest bill change from a heat pump because it replaces resistance heat one for one.
Westwego has about the Jefferson Parish oil share of 0% and 8 points more electric heat than the county's 56% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US22051, checked 2026-10-19).
Westwego has 4,156 housing units, 4% built before 1940 and 75% before 1980, with 5% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US2281165, checked 2026-10-19).
The median Westwego home was built in 1970 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US2281165, checked 2026-10-19) and the median home has 4.8 rooms (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25018, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25018?g=160XX00US2281165, checked 2026-10-19).
68% of Westwego homes are single-family detached, 8% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 17% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=160XX00US2281165, checked 2026-10-19).
49% of Westwego homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US2281165, 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.
No electric utility is on file for Westwego on this door yet, so this page does not name one; the name on the bill decides which rebate path applies.
Heating design temperature: 34F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), Jefferson 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 34F figure is the Jefferson Parish cold-day number a Westwego heat pump is sized against, so ask the installer to show the system's heating output at 34F, not at the milder rating-label temperature.
Ask for the heat-loss calculation room by room; the median Westwego home has 4.8 rooms and was built around 1970, 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 Westwego. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.
No local contractor is named on this door for Westwego yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.