Houston / Sealy
Sealy has 7,053 residents (give or take 26) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US4866464, checked 2026-10-19), about 602 people per square mile.
Sealy is about 46 miles from the Census center point for Houston in a straight line and covers 11.722 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 2,548 occupied homes in Sealy, 42% heat with natural gas, 0% with heating oil, 56% with electricity and 2% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US4866464, checked 2026-10-19).
Electricity already heats 56% of Sealy homes, ahead of gas at 42%, and a home on electric baseboard sees the biggest bill change from a heat pump because it replaces resistance heat one for one.
Sealy has about the Austin County oil share of 0% and 8 points less electric heat than the county's 64% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US48015, checked 2026-10-19).
Sealy has 2,946 housing units, 7% built before 1940 and 38% before 1980, with 27% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US4866464, checked 2026-10-19).
Sealy has 10 points fewer homes built after 2000 than the county's 37% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=050XX00US48015, checked 2026-10-19).
The median Sealy home was built in 1985 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US4866464, checked 2026-10-19) and the median home has 5.2 rooms (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25018, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25018?g=160XX00US4866464, checked 2026-10-19).
55% of Sealy homes are single-family detached, 13% 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=160XX00US4866464, checked 2026-10-19).
35% of Sealy homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US4866464, checked 2026-10-19), so beside the 55% detached houses there is a real share of jobs where the landlord, not the resident, signs the quote.
Sealy has 14 points fewer detached houses than Austin County overall (69%) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=050XX00US48015, checked 2026-10-19).
No electric utility is on file for Sealy 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 Sealy is $56,514 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B19013, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B19013?g=160XX00US4866464, 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: 31F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), Austin 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 31F figure is the Austin County cold-day number a Sealy heat pump is sized against, so ask the installer to show the system's heating output at 31F, not at the milder rating-label temperature.
Ask for the heat-loss calculation room by room; the median Sealy home has 5.2 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 Sealy. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.
No local contractor is named on this door for Sealy yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.