Portland / Forest Grove
Forest Grove has 26,529 residents (give or take 58) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US4126200, checked 2026-10-19), about 4,426 people per square mile.
Forest Grove is about 22 miles from the Census center point for Portland in a straight line and covers 5.994 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).
4,426 people per square mile puts Forest Grove in suburban density, where the outdoor unit usually sits in a side yard and the noise is not an issue for neighbors.
Of the 8,814 occupied homes in Forest Grove, 32% heat with natural gas, 2% with heating oil, 64% with electricity and 0% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US4126200, checked 2026-10-19).
Electricity already heats 64% of Forest Grove homes, ahead of gas at 32%, and a home on electric baseboard sees the biggest bill change from a heat pump because it replaces resistance heat one for one.
Forest Grove has about the Washington County oil share of 1% and 18 points more electric heat than the county's 46% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US41067, checked 2026-10-19).
Forest Grove has 9,094 housing units, 11% built before 1940 and 48% before 1980, with 30% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US4126200, checked 2026-10-19).
Forest Grove has 8 points more pre-1940 homes than Washington County as a whole (3%) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=050XX00US41067, checked 2026-10-19). An older stock means more insulation upgrades before the heat pump goes in.
The median Forest Grove home was built in 1982 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US4126200, checked 2026-10-19) and the median home has 5.4 rooms (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25018, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25018?g=160XX00US4126200, checked 2026-10-19).
58% of Forest Grove homes are single-family detached, 11% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 18% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=160XX00US4126200, checked 2026-10-19).
36% of Forest Grove homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US4126200, checked 2026-10-19), so beside the 58% detached houses there is a real share of jobs where the landlord, not the resident, signs the quote.
No electric utility is on file for Forest Grove on this door yet, so this page does not name one; the name on the bill decides which rebate path applies.
Energy Trust of Oregon heat pump incentives, run by Energy Trust of Oregon, is a live program for Oregon addresses and covers qualifying equipment at $1,000 per system (registry row 15 verified 2026-10-15, https://www.energytrust.org/incentives/residential-cooling-solutions/, checked 2026-10-16); confirm eligibility for the Forest Grove address before counting it. With 64% of Forest Grove homes already on electric heat and 34% on gas, oil or propane, the row that applies depends on the name on the electric bill and the fuel coming out.
Median household income in Forest Grove is $87,933 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B19013, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B19013?g=160XX00US4126200, 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: 24F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), Washington County row, 99% heating, PDF pages 100 to 102 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 24F figure is the Washington County cold-day number a Forest Grove heat pump is sized against, so ask the installer to show the system's heating output at 24F, not at the milder rating-label temperature.
Ask for the heat-loss calculation room by room; the median Forest Grove home has 5.4 rooms and was built around 1982, 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 Forest Grove. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.
No local contractor is named on this door for Forest Grove yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.