Cincinnati / Salem
Salem has 11,758 residents (give or take 22) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US3969834, checked 2026-10-19), about 1,828 people per square mile.
Salem is about 229 miles from the Census center point for Cincinnati in a straight line and covers 6.431 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 5,141 occupied homes in Salem, 75% heat with natural gas, 0% with heating oil, 19% with electricity and 4% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US3969834, checked 2026-10-19).
Gas heats 75% of Salem against electricity at 19%, 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.
Salem has 7 points less oil heat than Columbiana County as a whole, where 7% of homes burn oil, and 9 points less electric heat than the county's 28% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US39029, checked 2026-10-19).
Salem has 5,756 housing units, 39% built before 1940 and 80% before 1980, with 8% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US3969834, checked 2026-10-19).
The median Salem home was built in 1954 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US3969834, 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=160XX00US3969834, checked 2026-10-19).
69% of Salem homes are single-family detached, 16% 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=160XX00US3969834, checked 2026-10-19).
43% of Salem homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US3969834, checked 2026-10-19), so beside the 69% 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 Salem on this door yet, so this page does not name one; the name on the bill decides which rebate path applies.
Heating design temperature: 5F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), Columbiana 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 Columbiana County cold-day number a Salem 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 75% of Salem on gas and 19% already electric the two paths carry different rebate figures and different sizing.
Ask for the heat-loss calculation room by room; a Salem house from before 1940 (39% of the 5,756 units) rarely matches a square-footage rule of thumb.
The form on this page is the follow-up for Salem. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.
No local contractor is named on this door for Salem yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.