Camden / Merchantville
Merchantville has 3,905 residents (give or take 21) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US3445510, checked 2026-10-19), about 6,585 people per square mile.
Merchantville is about 3 miles from the Census center point for Camden in a straight line and covers 0.593 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).
Median household income in Merchantville is $90,706 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B19013, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B19013?g=160XX00US3445510, 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.
6,585 people per square mile puts Merchantville in suburban density, where the outdoor unit usually sits in a side yard and the noise is not an issue for neighbors.
45% of Merchantville homes are single-family detached, 18% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 16% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=160XX00US3445510, checked 2026-10-19).
43% of Merchantville homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US3445510, checked 2026-10-19), so beside the 45% detached houses there is a real share of jobs where the landlord, not the resident, signs the quote.
Merchantville has 10 points fewer detached houses than Camden County overall (55%) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=050XX00US34007, checked 2026-10-19).
43% of Merchantville homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US3445510, 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 1,520 occupied homes in Merchantville, 66% heat with natural gas, 6% with heating oil, 29% with electricity and 0% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US3445510, checked 2026-10-19).
Gas heats 66% of Merchantville against electricity at 29%, so most quotes here are a partial-home system that carries the shoulder seasons and the summer while the gas furnace handles the coldest nights, or a whole-home system when the house is ready for it.
Merchantville has about the Camden County oil share of 4% and 11 points more electric heat than the county's 18% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US34007, checked 2026-10-19).
No electric utility is on file for Merchantville on this door yet, so this page does not name one; the name on the bill decides which rebate path applies.
Merchantville has 1,641 housing units, 46% built before 1940 and 86% before 1980, with 4% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US3445510, checked 2026-10-19).
Merchantville has 29 points more pre-1940 homes than Camden County as a whole (17%) and 7 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=050XX00US34007, checked 2026-10-19). An older stock means more insulation upgrades before the heat pump goes in.
The median Merchantville home was built in 1944 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US3445510, checked 2026-10-19) and the median home has 5.9 rooms (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25018, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25018?g=160XX00US3445510, checked 2026-10-19).
46% of Merchantville homes were built before 1940 and 86% before 1980 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US3445510, 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.
Heating design temperature: 10F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), Camden County row, 99% heating, PDF pages 81 to 82 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 10F figure is the Camden County cold-day number a Merchantville heat pump is sized against, so ask the installer to show the system's heating output at 10F, not at the milder rating-label temperature.
Ask whether the quote is whole-home or partial-home, because with 66% of Merchantville on gas and 29% already electric the two paths carry different rebate figures and different sizing.
Ask for the heat-loss calculation room by room; a Merchantville house from before 1940 (46% of the 1,641 units) rarely matches a square-footage rule of thumb.
The form on this page is the follow-up for Merchantville. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.
No local contractor is named on this door for Merchantville yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.