Wilmington / Pike Creek
Pike Creek has 7,129 residents (give or take 869) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US1056490, checked 2026-10-19), about 2,651 people per square mile.
Pike Creek is about 9 miles from the Census center point for Wilmington in a straight line and covers 2.689 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).
Median household income in Pike Creek is $139,635 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B19013, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B19013?g=160XX00US1056490, 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.
49% of Pike Creek homes are single-family detached, 2% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 7% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=160XX00US1056490, checked 2026-10-19).
13% of Pike Creek homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US1056490, checked 2026-10-19), so beside the 49% detached houses there is a real share of jobs where the landlord, not the resident, signs the quote.
Pike Creek has 12 points fewer five-plus-unit buildings than the county's 19% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=050XX00US10003, checked 2026-10-19).
Only 13% of Pike Creek homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US1056490, checked 2026-10-19), so nearly every quote here is the resident talking to the installer directly, and the rebate goes to the person living in the house.
Of the 2,690 occupied homes in Pike Creek, 41% heat with natural gas, 13% with heating oil, 45% with electricity and 1% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US1056490, checked 2026-10-19).
Electricity already heats 45% of Pike Creek homes, ahead of gas at 41%, and a home on electric baseboard sees the biggest bill change from a heat pump because it replaces resistance heat one for one.
Pike Creek has 4 points more oil heat than New Castle County as a whole, where 9% of homes burn oil, and 13 points more electric heat than the county's 32% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US10003, checked 2026-10-19).
No electric utility is on file for Pike Creek on this door yet, so this page does not name one; the name on the bill decides which rebate path applies.
Pike Creek has 2,775 housing units, 2% built before 1940 and 9% before 1980, with 9% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US1056490, checked 2026-10-19).
Pike Creek has 9 points fewer pre-1940 homes than New Castle County as a whole (11%) and 11 points fewer homes built after 2000 than the county's 20% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=050XX00US10003, checked 2026-10-19).
The median Pike Creek home was built in 1988 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US1056490, checked 2026-10-19) and the median home has 7.2 rooms (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25018, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25018?g=160XX00US1056490, checked 2026-10-19).
Heating design temperature: 11F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), New Castle 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 New Castle County cold-day number a Pike Creek 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 Pike Creek home has 7.2 rooms and was built around 1988, 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 Pike Creek. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.
No local contractor is named on this door for Pike Creek yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.