San Francisco / Gilroy
Gilroy has 59,004 residents (give or take 45) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US0629504, checked 2026-10-19), about 3,568 people per square mile.
Gilroy is about 94 miles from the Census center point for San Francisco in a straight line and covers 16.536 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).
3,568 people per square mile puts Gilroy in suburban density, where the outdoor unit usually sits in a side yard and the noise is not an issue for neighbors.
Of the 17,459 occupied homes in Gilroy, 61% heat with natural gas, 0% with heating oil, 32% with electricity and 1% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US0629504, checked 2026-10-19).
Gas heats 61% of Gilroy against electricity at 32%, and a cold-climate heat pump sized for this market replaces the gas system outright, so the usual quote is a whole-home install.
Gilroy has about the Santa Clara County oil share of 0% and 4 points less electric heat than the county's 36% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US06085, checked 2026-10-19).
Gilroy has 18,054 housing units, 4% built before 1940 and 35% before 1980, with 35% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US0629504, checked 2026-10-19).
Gilroy has 15 points more homes built after 2000 than the county's 20% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=050XX00US06085, checked 2026-10-19).
The median Gilroy home was built in 1989 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US0629504, checked 2026-10-19) and the median home has 6 rooms (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25018, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25018?g=160XX00US0629504, checked 2026-10-19).
69% of Gilroy homes are single-family detached, 7% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 15% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=160XX00US0629504, checked 2026-10-19).
38% of Gilroy homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US0629504, checked 2026-10-19), so beside the 69% detached houses there is a real share of jobs where the landlord, not the resident, signs the quote.
Gilroy has 18 points more detached houses than Santa Clara County overall (51%) and 14 points fewer five-plus-unit buildings than the county's 29% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=050XX00US06085, checked 2026-10-19).
No electric utility is on file for Gilroy on this door yet, so this page does not name one; the name on the bill decides which rebate path applies.
Median household income in Gilroy is $133,107 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B19013, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B19013?g=160XX00US0629504, 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: 27F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), Santa Clara County row, 99% heating, PDF pages 11 to 13 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 Santa Clara County cold-day number a Gilroy 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 whether the quote is whole-home or partial-home, because with 61% of Gilroy 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 Gilroy home has 6 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 Gilroy. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.
No local contractor is named on this door for Gilroy yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.