Portland / Tillamook
Tillamook has 5,218 residents (give or take 26) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US4173700, checked 2026-10-19), about 2,741 people per square mile.
Tillamook is about 58 miles from the Census center point for Portland in a straight line and covers 1.904 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).
Median household income in Tillamook is $58,176 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B19013, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B19013?g=160XX00US4173700, 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.
48% of Tillamook homes are single-family detached, 12% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 24% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=160XX00US4173700, checked 2026-10-19).
57% of Tillamook homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US4173700, checked 2026-10-19), so beside the 48% detached houses there is a real share of jobs where the landlord, not the resident, signs the quote.
Tillamook has 29 points fewer detached houses than Tillamook County overall (77%) and 20 points more five-plus-unit buildings than the county's 4% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=050XX00US41057, checked 2026-10-19).
57% of Tillamook homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US4173700, 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.
Of the 2,054 occupied homes in Tillamook, 5% heat with natural gas, 3% with heating oil, 85% with electricity and 2% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US4173700, checked 2026-10-19).
Electricity already heats 85% of Tillamook homes, ahead of gas at 5%, and a home on electric baseboard sees the biggest bill change from a heat pump because it replaces resistance heat one for one.
Tillamook has about the Tillamook County oil share of 1% and 6 points more electric heat than the county's 79% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US41057, checked 2026-10-19).
No electric utility is on file for Tillamook 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 Tillamook address before counting it. With 85% of Tillamook homes already on electric heat and 10% on gas, oil or propane, the row that applies depends on the name on the electric bill and the fuel coming out.
Tillamook has 2,195 housing units, 42% built before 1940 and 68% before 1980, with 8% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US4173700, checked 2026-10-19).
Tillamook has 26 points more pre-1940 homes than Tillamook County as a whole (16%) and 16 points fewer homes built after 2000 than the county's 24% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=050XX00US41057, checked 2026-10-19). An older stock means more insulation upgrades before the heat pump goes in.
The median Tillamook home was built in 1948 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US4173700, 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=160XX00US4173700, checked 2026-10-19).
42% of Tillamook homes were built before 1940 and 68% before 1980 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US4173700, 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: 27F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), Tillamook 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 27F figure is the Tillamook County cold-day number a Tillamook heat pump is sized against, so ask the installer to show the system's heating output at 27F, not at the milder rating-label temperature.
Ask for the heat-loss calculation room by room; a Tillamook house from before 1940 (42% of the 2,195 units) rarely matches a square-footage rule of thumb.
The form on this page is the follow-up for Tillamook. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.
No local contractor is named on this door for Tillamook yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.