Worcester / Longmeadow
Longmeadow has 15,696 residents (give or take 41) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=060XX00US2501336300, checked 2026-10-19), about 1,727 people per square mile.
Longmeadow is about 42 miles from the Census center point for Worcester in a straight line and covers 9.089 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 Longmeadow that is 01106 (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 5,626 occupied homes in Longmeadow, 81% heat with natural gas, 9% with heating oil, 7% with electricity and 1% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=060XX00US2501336300, checked 2026-10-19).
Gas heats 81% of Longmeadow against oil at 9%, so most quotes here are a partial-home system that carries the shoulder seasons and the summer while the gas furnace handles the coldest nights, or a whole-home system when the house is ready for it.
Longmeadow has 13 points less oil heat than Hampden County as a whole, where 22% of homes burn oil, and 14 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).
Longmeadow has 5,805 housing units, 30% built before 1940 and 86% before 1980, with 2% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=060XX00US2501336300, checked 2026-10-19).
Longmeadow has 6 points fewer 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 Longmeadow home was built in 1957 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=060XX00US2501336300, checked 2026-10-19) and the median home has 7.5 rooms (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25018, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25018?g=060XX00US2501336300, checked 2026-10-19).
89% of Longmeadow homes are single-family detached, 2% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 5% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=060XX00US2501336300, checked 2026-10-19).
With 89% detached houses and 2% in small multi-family buildings, a Longmeadow quote is usually one or two outdoor units with ducted or ductless heads sized room by room. With 10% of Longmeadow homes rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=060XX00US2501336300, checked 2026-10-19), the landlord signs the quote in many of them.
Longmeadow has 33 points more detached houses than Hampden County overall (56%) and 13 points fewer five-plus-unit buildings than the county's 18% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=050XX00US25013, checked 2026-10-19).
Only 10% of Longmeadow homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=060XX00US2501336300, 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 2% of Longmeadow homes are new enough to pass the whole-home rebate's weatherization check on age, and 30% date from before 1940, so most of the other 98% show it with a home energy assessment before the heat pump goes in.
Eversource Energy lists 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 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 Longmeadow is $149,601 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B19013, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B19013?g=060XX00US2501336300, 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 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 81% of Longmeadow on gas and 7% already electric the two paths carry different rebate figures and different sizing.
Ask for the heat-loss calculation room by room; a Longmeadow house from before 1940 (30% of the 5,805 units) rarely matches a square-footage rule of thumb.
The form on this page is the follow-up for Longmeadow. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.
No local contractor is named on this door for Longmeadow yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.