Providence / Newport
Newport has 24,874 residents (give or take 26) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=060XX00US4400549960, checked 2026-10-19), about 3,249 people per square mile.
Newport is about 24 miles from the Census center point for Providence in a straight line and covers 7.656 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 Newport that is 02840, 02841 (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 Newport is $86,313 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B19013, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B19013?g=060XX00US4400549960, checked 2026-10-19); Clean Heat Rhode Island is for household income below 150% of state median income, and the Newport 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.
3,249 people per square mile puts Newport in suburban density, where the outdoor unit usually sits in a side yard and the noise is not an issue for neighbors.
41% of Newport homes are single-family detached, 34% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 20% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=060XX00US4400549960, checked 2026-10-19).
50% of Newport homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=060XX00US4400549960, checked 2026-10-19), so beside the 41% detached houses there is a real share of jobs where the landlord, not the resident, signs the quote.
Newport has 22 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).
50% of Newport homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=060XX00US4400549960, 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 11,049 occupied homes in Newport, 58% heat with natural gas, 24% with heating oil, 15% with electricity and 3% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=060XX00US4400549960, checked 2026-10-19).
Gas leads in Newport at 58%, but 26% of homes still burn delivered oil or propane, and those 2,873 or so homes are where a heat pump pays back fastest.
Newport has 20 points less oil heat than Newport County as a whole, where 44% of homes burn oil, and 2 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).
Rhode Island Energy publishes no town-by-town service list that names Newport, so this page does not say which utility bills the 11,049 occupied homes in Newport; 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 Newport 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 15% of Newport homes, about 1,657 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 Newport that is about 9,392 of the 11,049 occupied homes, the 58% on gas, 24% on oil and 3% 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).
Newport has 13,552 housing units, 58% built before 1940 and 85% before 1980, with 6% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=060XX00US4400549960, checked 2026-10-19).
Newport has 28 points more pre-1940 homes than Newport County as a whole (30%) and 6 points fewer homes built after 2000 than the county's 12% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=050XX00US44005, checked 2026-10-19). An older stock means more insulation upgrades before the heat pump goes in.
The median Newport home was built in 1938 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=060XX00US4400549960, checked 2026-10-19) and the median home has 5.1 rooms (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25018, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25018?g=060XX00US4400549960, checked 2026-10-19).
With 58% of Newport homes built before 1940 and only 6% new enough to pass on age, insulation is the first question: 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), and Rhode Island Energy's rebate page says to begin with a no-cost EnergyWise home energy assessment to identify any necessary weatherization improvements (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).
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 Newport 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 which rooms the heat pump will carry and whether the gas boiler stays, because with 58% of Newport on gas and 15% already electric the income-eligible program pays on fossil displacement in the zones served and the utility rebate pays per ton.
Ask for the heat-loss calculation room by room; a Newport house from before 1940 (58% of the 13,552 units) rarely matches a square-footage rule of thumb.
The form on this page is the follow-up for Newport. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.
No local contractor is named on this door for Newport yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.