White Plains / Larchmont

Heat pump installation in Larchmont, NY - up to $7,000 rebate

Larchmont, 7 miles out

Larchmont is about 7 miles from the Census center point for White Plains in a straight line and covers 1.096 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).

Larchmont has 6,567 residents (give or take 16) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US3641333, checked 2026-10-19), about 5,992 people per square mile.

The quote form takes a ZIP code; for Larchmont that is 10538 (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).

5,992 people per square mile puts Larchmont in suburban density, where the outdoor unit usually sits in a side yard and the noise is not an issue for neighbors.

What heats Larchmont

Of the 2,540 occupied homes in Larchmont, 65% heat with natural gas, 25% with heating oil, 6% with electricity and 4% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US3641333, checked 2026-10-19).

Larchmont has 3 points less oil heat than Westchester County as a whole, where 28% of homes burn oil, and 8 points less electric heat than the county's 14% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US36119, checked 2026-10-19).

Gas leads in Larchmont at 65%, but 28% of homes still burn delivered oil or propane, and those 711 or so homes are where a heat pump pays back fastest.

Age of the housing

The median Larchmont home was built in 1940 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US3641333, checked 2026-10-19) and the median home has 7.6 rooms (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25018, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25018?g=160XX00US3641333, checked 2026-10-19).

Larchmont has 2,642 housing units, 50% built before 1940 and 90% before 1980, with 8% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US3641333, checked 2026-10-19).

Larchmont has 22 points more pre-1940 homes than Westchester County as a whole (28%) and 3 points fewer homes built after 2000 than the county's 11% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=050XX00US36119, checked 2026-10-19). An older stock means more insulation upgrades before the heat pump goes in.

50% of Larchmont homes were built before 1940 and 90% before 1980 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US3641333, checked 2026-10-19), so insulation is the first sizing question: an older home leaks more heat per square foot, and the installer runs a room-by-room heat-loss calculation to size the system for what the walls and windows actually hold in, not just the floor plan.

House type

63% of Larchmont homes are single-family detached, 1% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 31% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=160XX00US3641333, checked 2026-10-19).

27% of Larchmont homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US3641333, checked 2026-10-19), so beside the 63% detached houses there is a real share of jobs where the landlord, not the resident, signs the quote.

Larchmont has 20 points more detached houses than Westchester County overall (43%) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=050XX00US36119, checked 2026-10-19).

Utility and rebate

No electric utility is on file for Larchmont on this door yet, so this page does not name one; the name on the bill decides which rebate path applies.

NYS Clean Heat (Con Edison), run by Con Edison, is a live program for New York addresses and lists a standard figure of $7,000 (registry row 5 verified 2026-10-16, https://www.coned.com/en/save-money/rebates-incentives-tax-credits/rebates-incentives-tax-credits-for-residential-customers/electric-heating-and-cooling-technology-for-renters-homeowners/save-on-a-central-air-source-heat-pump, checked 2026-10-16); confirm eligibility for the Larchmont address before counting it. With 6% of Larchmont homes already on electric heat and 94% on gas, oil or propane, the row that applies depends on the name on the electric bill and the fuel coming out.

Median household income in Larchmont is $167,536 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B19013, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B19013?g=160XX00US3641333, 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.

Design temperature

Heating design temperature: 6F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), Westchester County row, 99% heating, PDF pages 84 to 86 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 6F figure is the Westchester County cold-day number a Larchmont heat pump is sized against, so ask the installer to show the system's heating output at 6F, not at the milder rating-label temperature.

Next step

Ask whether the quote is whole-home or partial-home, because with 65% of Larchmont on gas and 6% already electric the two paths carry different rebate figures and different sizing.

Ask for the heat-loss calculation room by room; a Larchmont house from before 1940 (50% of the 2,642 units) rarely matches a square-footage rule of thumb.

The form on this page is the follow-up for Larchmont. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.

No local contractor is named on this door for Larchmont yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.

Where should the follow-up go?

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