Providence / Middletown
Middletown has 16,832 residents (give or take 25) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=060XX00US4400545460, checked 2026-10-19), about 1,325 people per square mile.
Middletown is about 22 miles from the Census center point for Providence in a straight line and covers 12.7 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 Middletown that is 02842 (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 7,226 occupied homes in Middletown, 35% heat with natural gas, 39% with heating oil, 19% with electricity and 5% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=060XX00US4400545460, checked 2026-10-19).
Heating oil is the largest single fuel in Middletown at 39%, ahead of gas at 35%, so the usual job here is an oil boiler or furnace coming out and a cold-climate heat pump going in, with the oil tank removed.
Middletown has 5 points less oil heat than Newport County as a whole, where 44% of homes burn oil, and 6 points more electric heat than the county's 13% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US44005, checked 2026-10-19).
Middletown has 8,225 housing units, 17% built before 1940 and 64% before 1980, with 10% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=060XX00US4400545460, checked 2026-10-19).
Middletown has 13 points fewer pre-1940 homes than Newport County as a whole (30%) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=050XX00US44005, checked 2026-10-19).
The median Middletown home was built in 1969 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=060XX00US4400545460, checked 2026-10-19) and the median home has 5.8 rooms (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25018, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25018?g=060XX00US4400545460, checked 2026-10-19).
57% of Middletown homes are single-family detached, 18% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 13% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=060XX00US4400545460, checked 2026-10-19).
42% of Middletown homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=060XX00US4400545460, checked 2026-10-19), so beside the 57% detached houses there is a real share of jobs where the landlord, not the resident, signs the quote.
Middletown has 6 points fewer detached houses than Newport County overall (63%) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=050XX00US44005, checked 2026-10-19).
42% of Middletown homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=060XX00US4400545460, 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.
Only 10% of Middletown homes are new enough to pass a weatherization check on age, and 17% date from before 1940, so most of the other 90% show it with an assessment: Clean Heat Rhode Island requires that the home must be sufficiently weatherized: built on or after January 1, 2000, or all weatherization recommendations completed, or a home energy assessment showing under $1,000 in recommended work (Clean Heat Rhode Island incentives, registry row 2 verified 2026-10-14, https://cleanheatri.com/incentives, checked 2026-10-19).
Rhode Island Energy publishes no town-by-town service list that names Middletown, so this page does not say which utility bills the 7,226 occupied homes in Middletown; the state energy office says: "Rhode Island Energy, the largest of the three, manages the distribution system for 99 percent of the state; Block Island Power Company and the Pascoag Utility District serve the remaining areas on Block Island and in western Burrillville, respectively." (Rhode Island Office of Energy Resources, Learn About Electricity (electric distribution utilities and the areas they serve), https://energy.ri.gov/electric/learn-about-electricity, checked 2026-10-19). The name on the electric bill decides which rebate path applies.
If the Middletown electric bill comes from Rhode Island Energy, the standard heat pump rebate is up to $625 per ton for Rhode Island Energy customers switching to central or mini-split electric heat pump equipment, and the enhanced rebate is $1,500 per ton for homes that currently heat with electric baseboards, for equipment installed through December 31, 2026; it is not income-based (Rhode Island Energy residential heat pump rebate, registry row 35 verified 2026-10-16, https://rienergy.com/site/ways-to-save/save-money-with-rebates-and-incentives/electric-heating-and-cooling, checked 2026-10-19). Electricity already heats 19% of Middletown homes, about 1,373 of them, and those on baseboard are the ones the enhanced tier is written for.
Clean Heat Rhode Island is the state income-eligible program, separate from the utility rebate: it pays 60% of the heat pump system and installation cost up to $11,500 per address, with a $18,000 lifetime cap per address, for household income below 150% of state median income, for homes whose existing primary heat is natural gas, propane or oil; in Middletown that is about 5,709 of the 7,226 occupied homes, the 35% on gas, 39% on oil and 5% on propane, and it is available to all Rhode Island electric utility customers (Rhode Island Energy, Clear River, Block Island Power) (Clean Heat Rhode Island incentives, registry row 2 verified 2026-10-14, https://cleanheatri.com/incentives, checked 2026-10-19).
Median household income in Middletown is $101,948 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B19013, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B19013?g=060XX00US4400545460, checked 2026-10-19); Clean Heat Rhode Island is for household income below 150% of state median income, and the Middletown median sits under the one-person limit of $124,950 published for the program (Clean Heat Rhode Island incentives, registry row 2 verified 2026-10-14, https://cleanheatri.com/incentives, checked 2026-10-19), though the limit rises with household size and is decided household by household.
Heating design temperature: 9F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), Newport County row, 99% heating, PDF page 105 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 9F figure is the Newport County cold-day number a Middletown heat pump is sized against, so ask the installer to show the system's heating output at 9F, not at the milder rating-label temperature.
Ask what happens to the oil tank, since 39% of the 7,226 occupied Middletown homes have one and removal is usually a separate line on the quote.
Ask for the heat-loss calculation room by room; the median Middletown home has 5.8 rooms and was built around 1969, 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 Middletown. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.
No local contractor is named on this door for Middletown yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.