Wilmington / Felton
Felton has 1,294 residents (give or take 457) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US1026620, checked 2026-10-19), about 1,642 people per square mile.
Felton is about 50 miles from the Census center point for Wilmington in a straight line and covers 0.788 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 585 occupied homes in Felton, 17% heat with natural gas, 12% with heating oil, 57% with electricity and 10% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US1026620, checked 2026-10-19).
Electricity already heats 57% of Felton homes, ahead of gas at 17%, and a home on electric baseboard sees the biggest bill change from a heat pump because it replaces resistance heat one for one.
Felton has about the Kent County oil share of 10% and 23 points more electric heat than the county's 34% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US10001, checked 2026-10-19).
Felton has 594 housing units, 12% built before 1940 and 27% before 1980, with 46% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US1026620, checked 2026-10-19).
Felton has 5 points more pre-1940 homes than Kent County as a whole (7%) and 6 points more homes built after 2000 than the county's 40% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=050XX00US10001, checked 2026-10-19). An older stock means more insulation upgrades before the heat pump goes in.
The median Felton home was built in 1998 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US1026620, 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=160XX00US1026620, checked 2026-10-19).
77% of Felton homes are single-family detached, 4% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 14% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=160XX00US1026620, checked 2026-10-19).
With 77% detached houses and 4% in small multi-family buildings, a Felton quote is usually one or two outdoor units with ducted or ductless heads sized room by room. With 29% of Felton homes rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US1026620, checked 2026-10-19), the landlord signs the quote in many of them.
Felton has 12 points more detached houses than Kent County overall (65%) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=050XX00US10001, checked 2026-10-19).
46% of Felton housing was built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US1026620, checked 2026-10-19), and homes that recent usually meet the insulation codes in place at the time, so a heat pump sized to the floor plan lands closer to the real load than it would in an older neighborhood.
No electric utility is on file for Felton 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 Felton is $59,896 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B19013, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B19013?g=160XX00US1026620, 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.
Heating design temperature: 11F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), Kent County row, 99% heating, PDF page 17 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 11F figure is the Kent County cold-day number a Felton heat pump is sized against, so ask the installer to show the system's heating output at 11F, not at the milder rating-label temperature.
Ask for the heat-loss calculation room by room; the median Felton home has 5.8 rooms and was built around 1998, 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 Felton. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.
No local contractor is named on this door for Felton yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.