Boston / Taunton
Taunton has 60,433 residents (give or take 50) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=060XX00US2500569170, checked 2026-10-19), about 1,294 people per square mile.
Taunton is about 30 miles from the Census center point for Boston in a straight line and covers 46.708 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).
The quote form takes a ZIP code; for Taunton that is 02718, 02780 (Census 2020 ZCTA to county subdivision relationship file, ZIP areas at least 20% inside the town, https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/rel2020/zcta520/tab20_zcta520_cousub20_natl.txt, checked 2026-10-19).
Median household income in Taunton is $79,283 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B19013, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B19013?g=060XX00US2500569170, 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.
45% of Taunton homes are single-family detached, 29% 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=060XX00US2500569170, checked 2026-10-19).
38% of Taunton homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=060XX00US2500569170, checked 2026-10-19), so beside the 45% detached houses there is a real share of jobs where the landlord, not the resident, signs the quote.
Taunton has 8 points fewer detached houses than Bristol County overall (53%) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=050XX00US25005, checked 2026-10-19).
Of the 24,063 occupied homes in Taunton, 50% heat with natural gas, 27% with heating oil, 17% with electricity and 5% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=060XX00US2500569170, checked 2026-10-19).
Gas leads in Taunton at 50%, but 32% of homes still burn delivered oil or propane, and those 7,700 or so homes are where a heat pump pays back fastest.
Taunton has 4 points more oil heat than Bristol County as a whole, where 23% of homes burn oil, and 4 points more electric heat than the county's 13% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US25005, checked 2026-10-19).
Taunton is also on the state table of towns served by a municipal light plant, Taunton Municipal Lighting Plant (Massachusetts municipally-owned electric companies, https://www.mass.gov/info-details/massachusetts-municipally-owned-electric-companies, checked 2026-10-19).
Mass Save heat pump rebates are for electric accounts with Cape Light Compact, Eversource, National Grid or Unitil, so a Taunton home billed by Taunton Municipal Lighting Plant asks the plant for its heat pump rebate instead.
Taunton has 25,188 housing units, 35% built before 1940 and 64% before 1980, with 8% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=060XX00US2500569170, checked 2026-10-19).
Taunton has 3 points more pre-1940 homes than Bristol County as a whole (32%) and 4 points fewer homes built after 2000 than the county's 12% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=050XX00US25005, checked 2026-10-19). An older stock means more insulation upgrades before the heat pump goes in.
The median Taunton home was built in 1965 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=060XX00US2500569170, 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=060XX00US2500569170, checked 2026-10-19).
35% of Taunton homes were built before 1940 and 64% before 1980 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=060XX00US2500569170, checked 2026-10-19), so insulation is the first sizing question: an older home leaks more heat per square foot, and the installer runs a room-by-room heat-loss calculation to size the system for what the walls and windows actually hold in, not just the floor plan.
Heating design temperature: 9F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), Bristol 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 9F figure is the Bristol County cold-day number a Taunton heat pump is sized against, so ask the installer to show the system's heating output at 9F, not at the milder rating-label temperature.
Ask whether the quote is whole-home or partial-home, because with 50% of Taunton on gas and 17% already electric the two paths carry different rebate figures and different sizing.
Ask for the heat-loss calculation room by room; a Taunton house from before 1940 (35% of the 25,188 units) rarely matches a square-footage rule of thumb.
The form on this page is the follow-up for Taunton. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.
No local contractor is named on this door for Taunton yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.