Baltimore / Jessup
Jessup has 9,931 residents (give or take 726) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US2442550, checked 2026-10-19), about 1,642 people per square mile.
Jessup is about 14 miles from the Census center point for Baltimore in a straight line and covers 6.048 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 Jessup that is 20701, 20794 (Census 2020 ZCTA to county subdivision and ZCTA to place relationship files, ZIP areas at least 20% inside the town, https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/rel2020/zcta520/tab20_zcta520_cousub20_natl.txt and https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/rel2020/zcta520/tab20_zcta520_place20_natl.txt, checked 2026-10-19).
Median household income in Jessup is $128,851 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B19013, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B19013?g=160XX00US2442550, 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.
42% of Jessup homes are single-family detached, 3% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 31% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=160XX00US2442550, checked 2026-10-19).
44% of Jessup homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US2442550, checked 2026-10-19), so beside the 42% detached houses there is a real share of jobs where the landlord, not the resident, signs the quote.
Jessup has 17 points fewer detached houses than Anne Arundel County overall (59%) and 15 points more five-plus-unit buildings than the county's 16% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=050XX00US24003, checked 2026-10-19).
44% of Jessup homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US2442550, 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 1,586 occupied homes in Jessup, 50% heat with natural gas, 8% with heating oil, 32% with electricity and 10% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US2442550, checked 2026-10-19).
Gas leads in Jessup at 50%, but 17% of homes still burn delivered oil or propane, and those 270 or so homes are where a heat pump pays back fastest.
Jessup has about the Anne Arundel County oil share of 8% and 18 points less electric heat than the county's 50% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US24003, checked 2026-10-19).
No electric utility is on file for Jessup on this door yet, so this page does not name one; the name on the bill decides which rebate path applies.
Jessup has 1,586 housing units, 0% built before 1940 and 22% before 1980, with 51% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US2442550, checked 2026-10-19).
Jessup has 5 points fewer pre-1940 homes than Anne Arundel County as a whole (5%) and 26 points more homes built after 2000 than the county's 25% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=050XX00US24003, checked 2026-10-19).
The median Jessup home was built in 2003 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US2442550, checked 2026-10-19) and the median home has 5.5 rooms (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25018, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25018?g=160XX00US2442550, checked 2026-10-19).
51% of Jessup housing was built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US2442550, checked 2026-10-19), and homes that recent usually meet the insulation codes in place at the time, so a heat pump sized to the floor plan lands closer to the real load than it would in an older neighborhood.
Heating design temperature: 17F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), Anne Arundel County row, 99% heating, PDF pages 55 to 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 17F figure is the Anne Arundel County cold-day number a Jessup heat pump is sized against, so ask the installer to show the system's heating output at 17F, not at the milder rating-label temperature.
Ask whether the quote is whole-home or partial-home, because with 50% of Jessup on gas and 32% already electric the two paths carry different rebate figures and different sizing.
Ask for the heat-loss calculation room by room; the median Jessup home has 5.5 rooms and was built around 2003, 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 Jessup. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.
No local contractor is named on this door for Jessup yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.