Boston / Hyde Park
The figures on this page cover ZIP code 02136, the code a state office list files under Hyde Park (BOSTON OFFICES BY ZIP CODE (Massachusetts Department of Children and Families), https://www.mass.gov/doc/boston-dcf-coverage-by-zip-code/download, checked 2026-10-19).
Hyde Park has 37,265 residents (give or take 2,242) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=860Z200US02136, checked 2026-10-19), about 8,101 people per square mile.
Hyde Park is about 8 miles from the Census center point for Boston in a straight line and covers 4.6 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).
At 8,101 people per square mile, Hyde Park is dense enough that noise setback rules and outdoor-unit placement on a small lot are the first questions the installer works through.
Of the 13,719 occupied homes in Hyde Park, 67% heat with natural gas, 10% with heating oil, 19% with electricity and 2% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=860Z200US02136, checked 2026-10-19).
Gas heats 67% of Hyde Park against electricity at 19%, so most quotes here are a partial-home system that carries the shoulder seasons and the summer while the gas furnace handles the coldest nights, or a whole-home system when the house is ready for it.
Hyde Park has 3 points more oil heat than Suffolk County as a whole, where 7% of homes burn oil, and 12 points less electric heat than the county's 31% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US25025, checked 2026-10-19).
36% of Hyde Park homes are single-family detached, 31% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 19% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=860Z200US02136, checked 2026-10-19).
47% of Hyde Park homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=860Z200US02136, checked 2026-10-19), so beside the 36% detached houses there is a real share of jobs where the landlord, not the resident, signs the quote.
Hyde Park has 23 points more detached houses than Suffolk County overall (13%) and 26 points fewer five-plus-unit buildings than the county's 45% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=050XX00US25025, checked 2026-10-19).
Hyde Park has 14,171 housing units, 33% built before 1940 and 78% before 1980, with 12% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=860Z200US02136, checked 2026-10-19).
Hyde Park has 13 points fewer pre-1940 homes than Suffolk County as a whole (46%) and 6 points fewer homes built after 2000 than the county's 18% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=050XX00US25025, checked 2026-10-19).
The median Hyde Park home was built in 1954 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=860Z200US02136, 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=860Z200US02136, checked 2026-10-19).
47% of Hyde Park homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=860Z200US02136, 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.
Eversource Energy lists Hyde Park among the Massachusetts communities it serves for electricity (Eversource Energy communities we serve, https://www.eversource.com/residential/services/communities-we-serve, checked 2026-10-19).
For a Hyde Park address billed by Eversource Energy, the Mass Save whole-home heat pump rebate is $2,650 per ton up to $8,500, and the partial-home rebate is $1,125 per ton up to $8,500; for projects installed on or after January 1, 2027, the whole-home figure drops to $2,350 per ton capped at $7,500 (Mass Save air-source heat pump rebates, https://www.masssave.com/residential/rebates-offers-services/heating-and-cooling/heat-pumps/air-source-heat-pumps, checked 2026-10-19).
Only 12% of Hyde Park homes are new enough to pass the whole-home rebate's weatherization check on age, and 33% date from before 1940, so most of the other 88% show it with a home energy assessment before the heat pump goes in.
Median household income in Hyde Park is $96,737 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B19013, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B19013?g=860Z200US02136, checked 2026-10-19); Mass Save's enhanced heat pump incentives are income-based and decided household by household, so the town median only hints at how many neighbors qualify.
Heating design temperature: 1F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), Suffolk County row, 99% heating, PDF page 56 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 1F figure is the Suffolk County cold-day number a Hyde Park heat pump is sized against, so ask the installer to show the system's heating output at 1F, not at the milder rating-label temperature.
Ask whether the quote is whole-home or partial-home, because with 67% of Hyde Park on gas and 19% already electric the two paths carry different rebate figures and different sizing.
Ask for the heat-loss calculation room by room; a Hyde Park house from before 1940 (33% of the 14,171 units) rarely matches a square-footage rule of thumb.
The form on this page is the follow-up for Hyde Park. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.
No local contractor is named on this door for Hyde Park yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.