St. Louis / Moberly
Moberly has 13,526 residents (give or take 24) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US2949034, checked 2026-10-19), about 1,026 people per square mile.
Moberly is about 129 miles from the Census center point for St. Louis in a straight line and covers 13.177 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).
Of the 5,103 occupied homes in Moberly, 47% heat with natural gas, 0% with heating oil, 48% with electricity and 3% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US2949034, checked 2026-10-19).
Electricity already heats 48% of Moberly homes, ahead of gas at 47%, and a home on electric baseboard sees the biggest bill change from a heat pump because it replaces resistance heat one for one.
Moberly has about the Randolph County oil share of 0% and 1 points less electric heat than the county's 49% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US29175, checked 2026-10-19).
Moberly has 5,943 housing units, 33% built before 1940 and 71% before 1980, with 14% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US2949034, checked 2026-10-19).
Moberly has 9 points more pre-1940 homes than Randolph County as a whole (24%) and 6 points fewer homes built after 2000 than the county's 20% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=050XX00US29175, checked 2026-10-19). An older stock means more insulation upgrades before the heat pump goes in.
The median Moberly home was built in 1965 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US2949034, checked 2026-10-19) and the median home has 5.5 rooms (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25018, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25018?g=160XX00US2949034, checked 2026-10-19).
74% of Moberly homes are single-family detached, 15% 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=160XX00US2949034, checked 2026-10-19).
With 74% detached houses and 15% in small multi-family buildings, a Moberly quote is usually one or two outdoor units with ducted or ductless heads sized room by room. With 41% of Moberly homes rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US2949034, checked 2026-10-19), the landlord signs the quote in many of them.
41% of Moberly homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US2949034, 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.
33% of Moberly homes were built before 1940 and 71% before 1980 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US2949034, 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.
No electric utility is on file for Moberly 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 Moberly is $44,145 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B19013, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B19013?g=160XX00US2949034, 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: 3F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), Randolph County row, 99% heating, PDF pages 68 to 73 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 Randolph County cold-day number a Moberly 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 for the heat-loss calculation room by room; a Moberly house from before 1940 (33% of the 5,943 units) rarely matches a square-footage rule of thumb.
The form on this page is the follow-up for Moberly. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.
No local contractor is named on this door for Moberly yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.