Worcester / East Longmeadow
East Longmeadow has 16,425 residents (give or take 22) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=060XX00US2501319645, checked 2026-10-19), about 1,270 people per square mile.
East Longmeadow is about 38 miles from the Census center point for Worcester in a straight line and covers 12.936 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 East Longmeadow that is 01028 (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).
Of the 5,979 occupied homes in East Longmeadow, 68% heat with natural gas, 19% with heating oil, 9% with electricity and 3% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=060XX00US2501319645, checked 2026-10-19).
Gas leads in East Longmeadow at 68%, but 22% of homes still burn delivered oil or propane, and those 1,315 or so homes are where a heat pump pays back fastest.
East Longmeadow has 3 points less oil heat than Hampden County as a whole, where 22% of homes burn oil, and 12 points less electric heat than the county's 21% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US25013, checked 2026-10-19).
East Longmeadow has 6,206 housing units, 8% built before 1940 and 62% before 1980, with 19% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=060XX00US2501319645, checked 2026-10-19).
East Longmeadow has 20 points fewer pre-1940 homes than Hampden County as a whole (28%) and 11 points more homes built after 2000 than the county's 8% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=050XX00US25013, checked 2026-10-19).
The median East Longmeadow home was built in 1966 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=060XX00US2501319645, checked 2026-10-19) and the median home has 6.5 rooms (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25018, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25018?g=060XX00US2501319645, checked 2026-10-19).
85% of East Longmeadow homes are single-family detached, 3% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 10% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=060XX00US2501319645, checked 2026-10-19).
With 85% detached houses and 3% in small multi-family buildings, a East Longmeadow quote is usually one or two outdoor units with ducted or ductless heads sized room by room. With 13% of East Longmeadow homes rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=060XX00US2501319645, checked 2026-10-19), the landlord signs the quote in many of them.
East Longmeadow has 29 points more detached houses than Hampden County overall (56%) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=050XX00US25013, checked 2026-10-19).
Only 13% of East Longmeadow homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=060XX00US2501319645, checked 2026-10-19), so nearly every quote here is the resident talking to the installer directly, and the rebate goes to the person living in the house.
Only 19% of East Longmeadow homes are new enough to pass the whole-home rebate's weatherization check on age, and 8% date from before 1940, so most of the other 81% show it with a home energy assessment before the heat pump goes in.
Eversource Energy lists East Longmeadow among the Massachusetts communities it serves for electricity (Eversource Energy communities we serve, https://www.eversource.com/residential/services/communities-we-serve, checked 2026-10-19).
For a East Longmeadow address billed by Eversource Energy, the Mass Save whole-home heat pump rebate is $2,650 per ton up to $8,500, and the partial-home rebate is $1,125 per ton up to $8,500; for projects installed on or after January 1, 2027, the whole-home figure drops to $2,350 per ton capped at $7,500 (Mass Save air-source heat pump rebates, https://www.masssave.com/residential/rebates-offers-services/heating-and-cooling/heat-pumps/air-source-heat-pumps, checked 2026-10-19).
Median household income in East Longmeadow is $106,676 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B19013, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B19013?g=060XX00US2501319645, checked 2026-10-19); Mass Save's enhanced heat pump incentives are income-based and decided household by household, so the town median only hints at how many neighbors qualify.
Heating design temperature: -3F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), Hampden 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 -3F figure is the Hampden County cold-day number a East Longmeadow heat pump is sized against, so ask the installer to show the system's heating output at -3F, not at the milder rating-label temperature.
Ask whether the quote is whole-home or partial-home, because with 68% of East Longmeadow on gas and 9% already electric the two paths carry different rebate figures and different sizing.
Ask for the heat-loss calculation room by room; the median East Longmeadow home has 6.5 rooms and was built around 1966, 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 East Longmeadow. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.
No local contractor is named on this door for East Longmeadow yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.