Little Rock / Russellville

Heat pump installation in Russellville, AR - rebates, sizing and local data

Russellville in Pope County

Russellville has 29,162 residents (give or take 27) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US0561670, checked 2026-10-19), about 1,030 people per square mile.

Russellville is about 58 miles from the Census center point for Little Rock in a straight line and covers 28.302 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 Russellville that is 72801 (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).

Fuel mix

Of the 10,399 occupied homes in Russellville, 36% heat with natural gas, 0% with heating oil, 63% with electricity and 0% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US0561670, checked 2026-10-19).

Electricity already heats 63% of Russellville homes, ahead of gas at 36%, and a home on electric baseboard sees the biggest bill change from a heat pump because it replaces resistance heat one for one.

Russellville has about the Pope County oil share of 0% and 6 points less electric heat than the county's 69% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US05115, checked 2026-10-19).

Housing stock

Russellville has 11,675 housing units, 2% built before 1940 and 40% before 1980, with 22% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US0561670, checked 2026-10-19).

Russellville has 6 points fewer homes built after 2000 than the county's 28% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=050XX00US05115, checked 2026-10-19).

The median Russellville home was built in 1985 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US0561670, checked 2026-10-19) and the median home has 5.1 rooms (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25018, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25018?g=160XX00US0561670, checked 2026-10-19).

67% of Russellville homes are single-family detached, 14% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 15% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=160XX00US0561670, checked 2026-10-19).

45% of Russellville homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US0561670, checked 2026-10-19), so beside the 67% detached houses there is a real share of jobs where the landlord, not the resident, signs the quote.

Russellville has 7 points fewer detached houses than Pope County overall (74%) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=050XX00US05115, checked 2026-10-19).

45% of Russellville homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US0561670, 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.

Rebate path

No electric utility is on file for Russellville 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 Russellville is $50,877 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B19013, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B19013?g=160XX00US0561670, 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.

Cold-day number

Heating design temperature: 21F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), Pope County row, 99% heating, PDF pages 8 to 11 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 21F figure is the Pope County cold-day number a Russellville heat pump is sized against, so ask the installer to show the system's heating output at 21F, not at the milder rating-label temperature.

Next step

Ask for the heat-loss calculation room by room; the median Russellville home has 5.1 rooms and was built around 1985, 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 Russellville. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.

No local contractor is named on this door for Russellville yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.

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