Houston / Dayton
Dayton has 9,058 residents (give or take 25) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US4819432, checked 2026-10-19), about 295 people per square mile.
Dayton is about 31 miles from the Census center point for Houston in a straight line and covers 30.661 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).
Dayton is spread out at 295 people per square mile across 30.661 square miles of land, so a long refrigerant line run between the outdoor unit and the farthest indoor head is the sizing question an installer checks first.
Of the 3,110 occupied homes in Dayton, 26% heat with natural gas, 0% with heating oil, 59% with electricity and 14% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US4819432, checked 2026-10-19).
Electricity already heats 59% of Dayton homes, ahead of gas at 26%, and a home on electric baseboard sees the biggest bill change from a heat pump because it replaces resistance heat one for one.
Dayton has about the Liberty County oil share of 0% and 15 points less electric heat than the county's 74% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US48291, checked 2026-10-19).
Dayton has 3,471 housing units, 1% built before 1940 and 24% before 1980, with 51% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US4819432, checked 2026-10-19).
Dayton has 8 points more homes built after 2000 than the county's 43% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=050XX00US48291, checked 2026-10-19).
The median Dayton home was built in 2000 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US4819432, checked 2026-10-19) and the median home has 5.3 rooms (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25018, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25018?g=160XX00US4819432, checked 2026-10-19).
69% of Dayton homes are single-family detached, 4% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 16% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=160XX00US4819432, checked 2026-10-19).
34% of Dayton homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US4819432, 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.
Dayton has 11 points more detached houses than Liberty County overall (58%) and 13 points more five-plus-unit buildings than the county's 3% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=050XX00US48291, checked 2026-10-19).
51% of Dayton housing was built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US4819432, 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 Dayton 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 Dayton is $59,691 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B19013, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B19013?g=160XX00US4819432, 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: 29F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), Liberty County row, 99% heating, PDF pages 115 to 125 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 29F figure is the Liberty County cold-day number a Dayton heat pump is sized against, so ask the installer to show the system's heating output at 29F, not at the milder rating-label temperature.
Ask for the heat-loss calculation room by room; the median Dayton home has 5.3 rooms and was built around 2000, 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 Dayton. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.
No local contractor is named on this door for Dayton yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.