Cincinnati / Kent
Kent has 27,116 residents (give or take 59) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US3939872, checked 2026-10-19), about 2,858 people per square mile.
Kent is about 216 miles from the Census center point for Cincinnati in a straight line and covers 9.489 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).
The quote form takes a ZIP code; for Kent that is 44240, 44243 (Census 2020 ZCTA to county subdivision and ZCTA to place relationship files, ZIP areas at least 20% inside the town, https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/rel2020/zcta520/tab20_zcta520_cousub20_natl.txt and https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/rel2020/zcta520/tab20_zcta520_place20_natl.txt, checked 2026-10-19).
39% of Kent homes are single-family detached, 10% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 44% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=160XX00US3939872, checked 2026-10-19).
With 44% of Kent homes in buildings of five or more units and 39% detached, the condo association usually decides where outdoor units can go, so that approval comes before the quote. With 59% of Kent homes rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US3939872, checked 2026-10-19), the landlord signs the quote in many of them.
Of the 10,069 occupied homes in Kent, 67% heat with natural gas, 0% with heating oil, 28% with electricity and 3% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US3939872, checked 2026-10-19).
Gas heats 67% of Kent against electricity at 28%, 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.
Kent has 6 points less oil heat than Portage County as a whole, where 6% of homes burn oil, and 6 points more electric heat than the county's 22% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US39133, checked 2026-10-19).
No electric utility is on file for Kent on this door yet, so this page does not name one; the name on the bill decides which rebate path applies.
Kent has 12,537 housing units, 16% built before 1940 and 65% before 1980, with 18% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US3939872, checked 2026-10-19).
The median Kent home was built in 1972 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US3939872, checked 2026-10-19) and the median home has 4.7 rooms (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25018, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25018?g=160XX00US3939872, checked 2026-10-19).
Heating design temperature: 5F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), Portage 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 5F figure is the Portage County cold-day number a Kent heat pump is sized against, so ask the installer to show the system's heating output at 5F, not at the milder rating-label temperature.
Ask whether the quote is whole-home or partial-home, because with 67% of Kent on gas and 28% already electric the two paths carry different rebate figures and different sizing.
Ask for the heat-loss calculation room by room; the median Kent home has 4.7 rooms and was built around 1972, 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 Kent. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.
No local contractor is named on this door for Kent yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.