Portland / Hood River
Hood River has 8,361 residents (give or take 24) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US4134900, checked 2026-10-19), about 3,194 people per square mile.
Hood River is about 56 miles from the Census center point for Portland in a straight line and covers 2.618 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).
3,194 people per square mile puts Hood River in suburban density, where the outdoor unit usually sits in a side yard and the noise is not an issue for neighbors.
Of the 3,569 occupied homes in Hood River, 47% heat with natural gas, 2% with heating oil, 50% with electricity and 0% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US4134900, checked 2026-10-19).
Electricity already heats 50% of Hood River homes, ahead of gas at 47%, and a home on electric baseboard sees the biggest bill change from a heat pump because it replaces resistance heat one for one.
Hood River has about the Hood River County oil share of 2% and 5 points less electric heat than the county's 55% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US41027, checked 2026-10-19).
Hood River has 4,147 housing units, 15% built before 1940 and 38% before 1980, with 32% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US4134900, checked 2026-10-19).
Hood River has 4 points more homes built after 2000 than the county's 28% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=050XX00US41027, checked 2026-10-19).
The median Hood River home was built in 1989 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US4134900, checked 2026-10-19) and the median home has 5 rooms (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25018, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25018?g=160XX00US4134900, checked 2026-10-19).
58% of Hood River homes are single-family detached, 14% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 17% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=160XX00US4134900, checked 2026-10-19).
47% of Hood River homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US4134900, 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.
Hood River has 14 points fewer detached houses than Hood River County overall (72%) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=050XX00US41027, checked 2026-10-19).
47% of Hood River homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US4134900, 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.
No electric utility is on file for Hood River 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 Hood River address before counting it. With 50% of Hood River homes already on electric heat and 49% 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 Hood River is $85,647 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B19013, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B19013?g=160XX00US4134900, 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: 19F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), Hood River 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 19F figure is the Hood River County cold-day number a Hood River heat pump is sized against, so ask the installer to show the system's heating output at 19F, not at the milder rating-label temperature.
Ask for the heat-loss calculation room by room; the median Hood River home has 5 rooms and was built around 1989, 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 Hood River. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.
No local contractor is named on this door for Hood River yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.