Cincinnati / Alliance
Alliance has 21,478 residents (give or take 42) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US3901420, checked 2026-10-19), about 2,383 people per square mile.
Alliance is about 217 miles from the Census center point for Cincinnati in a straight line and covers 9.012 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 8,163 occupied homes in Alliance, 79% heat with natural gas, 0% with heating oil, 18% with electricity and 1% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US3901420, checked 2026-10-19).
Gas heats 79% of Alliance against electricity at 18%, 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.
Alliance has 3 points less oil heat than Stark County as a whole, where 3% of homes burn oil, and 2 points more electric heat than the county's 16% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US39151, checked 2026-10-19).
Alliance has 9,115 housing units, 41% built before 1940 and 81% before 1980, with 6% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US3901420, checked 2026-10-19).
The median Alliance home was built in 1951 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US3901420, checked 2026-10-19) and the median home has 5.8 rooms (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25018, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25018?g=160XX00US3901420, checked 2026-10-19).
70% of Alliance homes are single-family detached, 14% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 13% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=160XX00US3901420, checked 2026-10-19).
With 70% detached houses and 14% in small multi-family buildings, a Alliance quote is usually one or two outdoor units with ducted or ductless heads sized room by room. With 49% of Alliance homes rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US3901420, checked 2026-10-19), the landlord signs the quote in many of them.
No electric utility is on file for Alliance on this door yet, so this page does not name one; the name on the bill decides which rebate path applies.
Heating design temperature: 6F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), Stark County row, 99% heating, PDF pages 94 to 97 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 6F figure is the Stark County cold-day number a Alliance heat pump is sized against, so ask the installer to show the system's heating output at 6F, not at the milder rating-label temperature.
Ask whether the quote is whole-home or partial-home, because with 79% of Alliance on gas and 18% already electric the two paths carry different rebate figures and different sizing.
Ask for the heat-loss calculation room by room; a Alliance house from before 1940 (41% of the 9,115 units) rarely matches a square-footage rule of thumb.
The form on this page is the follow-up for Alliance. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.
No local contractor is named on this door for Alliance yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.