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The median Philadelphia home was built in 1966; 67.3% of the stock predates 1980, and the pattern this metro's own data ranks first is the refrigerant transition reaching older systems. TempReach USA is a referral service, not an HVAC company: one call connects you with an independent local HVAC technician serving your ZIP code.
Philadelphia is a metro of 6,241,882 people and 2,445,882 households, and its heating and cooling is a portrait of its building history. The median home here was built in 1966; 67.3% of homes predate 1980 and 43.4% predate 1960, while 13.9% have arrived since 2000. Every one of those eras heated and cooled differently — different furnaces, different duct designs, different refrigerant generations — and they fail differently, which is why this page is organised around the patterns the data actually produces in Philadelphia rather than HVAC in the abstract.
There is an equipment timeline buried in Philadelphia's housing figures, and it reads like a technician's diary. The 1,131,980 homes from before 1960 were heated first and cooled later, their ducts added around floor plans that never imagined them. The 623,371 that followed between 1960 and 1979 mixed those retrofits with the first planned central systems. Then came the 490,351 homes of 1980-1999, fitted with matched systems as standard. Each band of that timeline is now a band of characteristic failures, arriving in the order the equipment tires — which is why a home's build year, in this metro, is the single most predictive fact about its heating and cooling.
Uniformity is the newer stock's defining trait. A subdivision in Camden or Wilmington went up in a handful of years, fitted with one generation of equipment, one duct design, one thermostat class. That uniformity writes a calendar the whole street shares: the first heating wave, the first cooling wave, the first questions about refrigerant and charge arrive together, years before the same streets need anything structural. With 13.9% of the metro built since 2000, that calendar governs a large and growing share of Philadelphia's HVAC work — predictable work, if a household reads the calendar early.
The weather's part in this is written at PHILADELPHIA INTL AP, PA US, where an average year carries 44.11 inches of precipitation, 29.7 days at ninety degrees or more and 77.3 nights at freezing or below. Systems experience that year as workload and as stakes in roughly equal measure — the workload in the run hours, the stakes on the single coldest night and the single hottest week. The problem ranking further down is simply the housing profile above, read under this sky.
Two public records, one metro: what was built here, and what the sky does to it.
Break the stock down by building era and the profile sharpens. Before 1960: 43.4% of homes, roughly 1,131,980 of them. From 1960 to 1979: 23.9%, about 623,371. From 1980 to 1999: 18.8%, about 490,351. Since 2000: 13.9%, about 362,546. Four eras, four equipment generations — and the balance among them is this metro's HVAC character in a single paragraph.
Vintage is destiny in this metro. With the pre-1960 band the largest of the four, the centre of gravity of Philadelphia's heating and cooling sits in houses whose systems have already outlived several generations of equipment — ducts gone leaky inside walls, furnaces renewed and renewed again, cooling retrofitted into floor plans that never imagined it. The later bands matter, and the post-2000 subdivisions will write their own chapter in time, but the calls that define HVAC here come disproportionately from the oldest streets, and they will keep coming until that stock is modernised system by system.
The second band in the table is the 1960-1979 stock: 623,371 homes, 23.9% of the metro. It is the transition generation — cooling arriving, heating generations overlapping, ducts mixed street by street — and it supplies Philadelphia with its most diagnostic HVAC: two homes of the same year needing opposite answers, decided by what the builder happened to specify.
The climate column of this profile is a workload statement. 4,510 heating degree days say how long the cold half of the year keeps furnaces and heat pumps working at their hardest; 1,358 cooling degree days say how relentlessly the hot half loads every condenser and coil; 77.3 freezing nights and 29.7 hot days mark the extremes where the failures concentrate. NOAA keeps these figures at PHILADELPHIA INTL AP, PA US as thirty-year normals — which is to say, as the closest thing HVAC has to a settled forecast.
Hold the two halves together and the rest of this page explains itself: the problems ranked highest here are the ones where Philadelphia's dominant housing era and its climate record overlap. Change either dataset and the ranking changes — which is precisely why this profile is rebuilt from the records for every metro instead of carried over from the last one.
Ordered by what this metro's data says its homes need most.
The local professional you are connected with reads the system the way it fails: electrical values first, then temperatures and pressures, then airflow, until one finding explains all of the symptoms at once.
One more pattern belongs in the Philadelphia picture: repair calls here are also a refrigerant story. Systems fitted in the older decades run on refrigerant generations the industry has been retiring, and every repair on those units weighs the charge's scarcity against the system's remaining life. The technician who explains that arithmetic plainly — what the repair restores, what it cannot assure anyone about next summer — is giving the household the real choice, and in the 1,755,351 pre-1980 homes it is a conversation held weekly. It is why two Philadelphia homes of the same age, on different streets, so often need the same visit in the same year.
The local caseload behind this service is written in the climate figures: 1,358 cooling degree days a year and 29.7 days at 90 or above, pressing on a cooling fleet whose oldest members serve the 1,755,351 pre-1980 homes — in Camden (71,471 residents) as much as in the oldest districts.
In Philadelphia this service is booked most often through the problem patterns at the top of this page — the metro's housing data, not habit, sets the order. If your home is in the 67.3% built before 1980, mention its age on the call: it changes the parts the technician loads before heading to Philadelphia and the rest of the metro.
Clean ducts that leak are still leaking. The inspection folded into a cleaning visit finds the crushed flex run, the separated joint, the filter slot that never sealed — the conditions that decide whether cleaned air actually reaches the rooms.
Duct cleaning in Philadelphia is booked in waves that follow the housing: after the renovation seasons in the older districts, at move-in across the subdivisions, alongside system replacements everywhere. The work pairs naturally with the inspection that surrounds it — leaking joints found and sealed, a disconnected run in an attic discovered, insulation fallen where it should not be. The cleaning is the appointment; the findings are often the value. With a median build year of 1966, most of the metro's 2,608,248 housing units are working through the same ageing curve.
Duct demand concentrates in the metro's long-biography homes: 1,755,351 pre-1980 systems that have carried decades of household air, and the renovated homes around Levittown (50,930 residents) whose construction dust is still in the runs.
One local habit worth copying: Philadelphia homeowners who mention their street's building era when they book get a better-matched visit, because a technician heading to a the 1960s home in New Castle County loads different parts than one heading to a new-build subdivision in Camden. The service is the same; the preparation is local.
Heating visits carry a safety core the cooling visit does not: burners, ignition, heat exchanger and venting inspected while the household is not depending on them nightly. Comfort is the other half of the visit, not the whole of it.
Ask what a tune-up prevents in Philadelphia and the answer is the peak-season failure: the capacitor that gives out on the first 100-degree afternoon, the condensate switch that floods a closet in the humid weeks, the igniter that chooses the coldest night of January. Those parts announce themselves in advance to anyone measuring — weakening values, slow drains, dirty flame sensors — and the maintenance visit exists to hear the announcements in spring and autumn instead of in the emergency weeks. That is the daily reality for the 2,445,882 households spread across New Castle, Cecil, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Salem, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia.
Tune-up demand follows the fleet's waves: the subdivisions' matched systems reaching service points together, the pre-1980 districts' individual units on individual schedules. Chester sits inside one of those patterns; the readings taken there this season predict its systems' next one.
Where this service gets booked in Philadelphia follows the map on this page: the older districts generate the deep-end work, the post-2000 subdivisions the wear-and-tear work, and the 490,351 homes in between split the difference. Telling the call center your home's build decade — most Philadelphia owners know it within a few years — puts the right kit on the van the first time.
Heat exchanger condition is the line in furnace work: sound, and most faults are repairs; cracked or corroded, and the conversation in any Philadelphia home becomes safety and replacement, plainly explained.
A furnace in Philadelphia rarely fails all at once; it files warnings first. Short cycling on cold mornings, a rumble at startup, one room that never reaches the thermostat's number while the rest of the house overshoots. The metro's climate makes those warnings worth reading early — a system that limps in October is being examined by 77.3 freezing nights all winter. The repair visit tests the safety chain before anything else: the exchanger's integrity, the venting, the carbon monoxide picture, then the parts that wear. The 44.11 inches of rain in an average year here is part of the story too — humidity loads every cooling coil in the metro.
Under Philadelphia's winters lie 4,510 heating degree days a year, and the furnaces answering them include the ageing units of the 1,755,351 pre-1980 homes alongside the electronic systems of the new subdivisions. The repair diary in Drexel Hill reads both ends of that stock in a single week.
Where this service gets booked in Philadelphia follows the map on this page: the older districts generate the deep-end work, the post-2000 subdivisions the wear-and-tear work, and the 490,351 homes in between split the difference. Telling the call center your home's build decade — most Philadelphia owners know it within a few years — puts the right kit on the van the first time.
Moisture cuts both ways. Too little through a heating season cracks wood and dries airways; too much through a cooling season feeds what grows in damp corners. Whole-home control aims at the moving middle, set against the weather outside.
Indoor air in Philadelphia is a two-season problem. The hot season — 29.7 days at 90 or above — seals homes shut around their air conditioning, and whatever the system recirculates stays in circulation: pollen tracked in during the green months, humidity the coil cannot fully pull down, the ordinary chemistry of a lived-in house. The cold season seals homes the other way, around their heating. Air quality work — filtration, humidity control, ventilation, purification — is sized to that sealed-house reality and to the housing: older homes leak air freely, newer ones hold it tightly, and the remedies differ. The PHILADELPHIA INTL AP, PA US record — 4,510 heating degree days, 1,358 cooling — is the backdrop New Castle County technicians plan around.
The local figures behind the service: 2,445,882 households, indoor humidity driven by 44.11 inches of yearly rain and long humid stretches, pollen seasons that load every return in New Castle County. The assessment measures a home against exactly that climate, not against a generic standard.
In Philadelphia this service is booked most often through the problem patterns at the top of this page — the metro's housing data, not habit, sets the order. If your home is in the 67.3% built before 1980, mention its age on the call: it changes the parts the technician loads before heading to Philadelphia and the rest of the metro.
From Philadelphia to Levittown, Philadelphia replacements routed through TempReach USA end in commissioning — measured charge and airflow — so the installed system matches the calculated one.
Heating installation in Philadelphia starts with a heat-loss calculation across New Castle, Cecil, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Salem, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia: the independent local professional measures the home's loss, inspects ducts and venting, and quotes the full scope before work begins.
Across 379 ZIP codes and housing from a median build year of 1966, Philadelphia heat pumps are specified and serviced from heat-loss figures and low-temperature performance data, not nominal tonnage.
Across 379 ZIP codes, Philadelphia mini-split systems installed through local professionals are commissioned zone by zone in heating and cooling, with the filter and drain routine handed over in person.
In Philadelphia, the thermostat question splits by housing era: homes from around the median build year of 1966 often lack a common wire in the wall, while newer builds across the 379 covered ZIP codes usually carry one — the local professional checks the cable before choosing the control.
Across New Castle, Cecil, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Salem, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia, the local professional who answers knows the stock — a median build year of 1966 across 2,608,248 homes means systems of every age failing in their characteristic ways, from Philadelphia to the metro's newest subdivisions.
Philadelphia's commercial buildings span every era around a median build year of 1966 — and with the era goes the equipment, from aging single units over old storefronts to multi-zone systems in new developments, all serviced from a per-unit record.
There is a plainer way to say what this page's ranking means in practice: most calls in Philadelphia are two calls. The first answers The refrigerant transition reaching older systems; the second answers leaky ducts losing air and energy. Between them they account for the shape of a local technician's week here — the districts visited, the parts stocked, the diagnoses made fastest because they are made most often. The remaining services divide the rest of the diary among them, essential but episodic, the supporting work around two leading patterns.
Selected and ranked from this metro's housing-age profile and climate record — not copied from another city's page.
The transition is, at bottom, a story about what is inside the pipes. A cooling system is not a generic appliance; it is built around a specific refrigerant, with a compressor, metering device and oils chosen for that chemistry, and the generations do not interchange. In Philadelphia all the generations are in service simultaneously — R-22 veterans in the older districts, R-410A systems across the middle decades, the newest refrigerant generation arriving in current installations — and a technician's van effectively serves three eras of the same trade at once. The homeowner's part in the story is knowledge of a single fact: which generation is in the backyard. That fact, readable from the nameplate, decides the economics of every leak, every charge and every major component from now on, and it is the first thing a good service conversation establishes.
Judge a refrigerant-era system by its leak history and its trend, not by a single charge reading. One low reading after many tight years is an event; a pattern of small losses is a biography, and the biography is what the economics should be based on. Philadelphia's climate record loads the question at both ends — a leaking system underperforms exactly when PHILADELPHIA INTL AP, PA US's 29.7 hot days demand its full capacity, and its owner pays for refrigerant and lost performance simultaneously. The households that navigate this transition well keep one habit: they can state their system's age, refrigerant and last three repairs without looking them up. That small command of the facts converts an industry-wide generational change into a single household's managed decision, which is the scale at which it was always going to be decided anyway.
The regulatory facts are the foundation: R-22 production and import ended in the United States in 2020, leaving reclaimed stock as the supply, while new equipment has moved through R-410A to the current lower-impact generation. In Philadelphia every generation still stands in service — the transition is not coming to this metro; it is distributed across it, yard by yard.
The rooms tell the story before any instrument does. In a Philadelphia home with tired ductwork, the pattern is geographic: the rooms nearest the air handler are comfortable, the far rooms lag, and the rooms over the longest or leakiest runs barely participate. Households adapt without noticing — a fan in the far bedroom, a space heater in the end office — treating as architecture what is actually plumbing for air. Duct runs installed in the metro's big building decades have now spent years in attic heat and crawl-space damp; flex sections sag, inner liners tear, and connections at the plenum work loose a fraction with every season's expansion and contraction. The equipment cycles faithfully and the house still under-delivers, because a system can only condition the air that actually arrives.
The construction details explain the timeline. Duct joints are mechanical connections, and the sealants asked to make them permanent have finite lives: cloth-backed tape dries and releases, foil tape lifts at edges, and even mastic can crack where runs move with the building. Flex duct, common in the metro's later building decades, fails at its connections and where its inner liner is pierced or crushed — and a crushed section quietly throttles every room downstream of it. Meanwhile the spaces the ducts cross work against them: attic temperatures in a Philadelphia summer turn an uninsulated or leaking run into a heat exchanger pointed the wrong way, and winter reverses the argument in the crawl space. A duct system is therefore not a fixed asset but a slowly changing one, and its delivered performance in any given year is an empirical question, not a memory of its installation day.
Consider the delivery assumption: every system in Philadelphia was sized on the expectation that its air would arrive. With 67.3% of homes built before 1980 — and their networks renovated, extended and re-sealed by turns ever since — that expectation's reliability varies house by house, which is why the measurement, not the assumption, has to govern.
Ageing also changes what a repair means. On a young system, a failed part is an interruption; on an old one, it is information — a data point about the machine's remaining life and about whether the next failure is already loading. In the older districts of Philadelphia, around Philadelphia and the streets that grew with it, technicians read repairs that way and say so: this motor can be replaced, and here is what its failure tells us about the compressor behind it. The household's decision — maintain, repair, or plan a replacement on a calm schedule — is only as good as that reading. Systems do not owe anyone a warning before their last season, but in practice they file their intentions in a language of rising run times and narrowing margins, for those who have the readings taken.
Judge an ageing system by its trend line, never by its kindest day. On its kindest day — mild weather, light load — almost any system in Philadelphia can still argue for itself. The trend line is written elsewhere: in run times lengthening season over season, in the setting creeping to hold the same comfort, in the rooms that quietly dropped out of the system's reach. PHILADELPHIA INTL AP, PA US's climate record ensures the trend will be tested at both ends of the year — 29.7 hot days and 77.3 freezing nights in an average year. The households that read their trend early choose the terms of the ending, whether that ending is a renewed component, a planned replacement in a shoulder season, or a few more good years bought with honest maintenance. The households that wait for the system's verdict receive it in the weather least suited to hearing it.
The housing record is the evidence: 43.4% of Philadelphia's homes predate 1960 and 67.3% predate 1980. Equipment lives and ages inside that stock, so the metro's systems are, as a population, exactly as old as its building history says they should be.
Ask a furnace what hard cold does to it and it answers in cycles. Every call for heat is a sequence — inducer, igniter, gas valve, flame proving, blower — and deep cold multiplies the sequences while lengthening each run. In Philadelphia the oldest furnaces run that sequence in the oldest housing: the 1,755,351 pre-1980 homes across the metro, whose flues, ductwork and clearances were built for earlier generations of equipment. A replacement furnace in such a home inherits the harder half of the installation — the venting and duct conditions — while the furnace being retired often shows the season's wear in its heat exchanger and its ignition train. Reading that wear correctly, rather than replacing parts one failure at a time, is the judgment the cold season asks of both homeowner and technician.
Judge a furnace by its coldest week, not its kindest. In its coldest week a Philadelphia furnace shows its true condition: whether it lights first time every time, whether it holds the house through the night without the temperature sagging, whether its sounds are the sounds it made when it was younger. PHILADELPHIA INTL AP, PA US's record — 77.3 freezing nights in an average year — makes the examination annual and unsparing. Households that come through it without drama have usually done one unglamorous thing: they treated the autumn symptoms as the season's advance copy. A furnace rarely fails without having filed its intentions first, in a slower start, a louder cycle, a room that stopped keeping up. The winter merely publishes what the furnace had already written.
The timing testifies. Furnace failures in Philadelphia concentrate in the coldest stretches of the 77.3 freezing nights PHILADELPHIA INTL AP, PA US records — the failures follow the load curve, which is the signature of wear meeting demand rather than chance meeting a machine.
Cooling and drying are two jobs wearing one name, and in Philadelphia the second job is the heavier one for much of the season. The climate record at PHILADELPHIA INTL AP, PA US pairs the heat with 44.11 inches of precipitation in an average year, and the air that comes with that moisture asks every air conditioner to do double duty: lower the temperature and wring out the water. A system dries air only while it runs, and only when its coil is cold and its airflow is right — so a unit that satisfies the thermostat quickly and shuts off can leave a house cool and clammy at the same time. The burden shows in the house as much as in the equipment: rooms that feel sticky at a normal setting, a musty note in closets and low corners, condensation on registers and windows, and indoor air that never quite feels finished. Households often answer by turning the thermostat down, which buys dryness with overcooling and longer bills of runtime. The underlying question is a moisture question — where the water is entering, how the system is set up to remove it, and whether the house needs dedicated dehumidification help beyond its cooling cycle.
The physics of the burden are worth stating plainly. Air holds water as vapor; the amount it can hold rises with temperature, which is why warm air arriving in a Philadelphia summer carries so much of it indoors. A cooling coil removes moisture by passing air across a surface cold enough for water to condense on it — the same physics that beads a cold glass. Two conditions govern how much condenses: how long the air stays against the cold coil, and how cold the coil runs. Short cycles starve the first; high airflow can starve the second. Meanwhile the house keeps adding vapor from living and from its own damp places, and the envelope keeps trading air with the outdoors. Indoor humidity is the running balance of that account — removal by the coil against addition by everything else — and a house that feels damp is simply a house whose account is out of balance in the wet direction.
The precipitation record testifies first: 44.11 inches of rain in an average year at PHILADELPHIA INTL AP, PA US means Philadelphia's air arrives wet for much of the season, and every cooling system in the metro is a dehumidifier by necessity, whether its setup honors the role or not.
Twice a year, Philadelphia changes its mind. The shoulder seasons — the weeks when a house can need heating in the morning and cooling by afternoon, sometimes within the same day — ask more of a system and its household than either deep season does: both modes in working order at once, controls set for change rather than for a settled pattern, and equipment that may sit idle for stretches and then be called on without ceremony. The record at PHILADELPHIA INTL AP, PA US frames the workload honestly — 4,510 heating degree days against 1,358 cooling degree days, a genuinely two-season climate — and the shoulders are where the two halves meet and negotiate. The checks that matter are changeover checks: the season just ending reviewed for what it spent — the filter, the wear items, the symptoms it filed — and the season arriving proven before it is needed, with a full run in the new mode while the weather is still forgiving. The thermostat's program belongs in the same check; last season's schedule, carried forward unexamined, is how a house ends up heating against an open-window afternoon. Households that treat the shoulders as their maintenance seasons get two calm, well-timed looks at their system a year — which is exactly the rhythm the equipment's manufacturers had in mind.
The season loads Philadelphia's systems the way its record at PHILADELPHIA INTL AP, PA US says it will: 4,510 heating degree days against 1,358 cooling degree days in an average year, against a housing stock whose median build year is 1966. The households that read the season early — filters, drains, a system run before the extreme weeks — are the ones whose calls stay schedulable.
The closer look reveals an irony at the transition's core. The systems most exposed to it — the oldest refrigerant generation — are concentrated in the homes least able to treat replacement casually: Philadelphia's older housing, whose owners inherited their equipment's generation along with its era's ductwork and electrical service. For those households the repair-versus-replace decision carries more weight per dollar, and the quality of the conversation matters accordingly. Good local practice in this metro recognizes the stakes explicitly: present the leak, the machine's full condition, and both paths with their honest horizons, and let the decision be the household's, made with the nameplate fact on the table. The transition will complete itself across this metro one household decision at a time; the households served well are the ones whose decisions were informed rather than hurried.
Why here and not everywhere: Philadelphia pairs 1,755,351 pre-1980 homes with 29.7 days a year at 90 degrees or more and 77.3 nights below freezing. Every metro pairs its housing with its weather somehow; this particular pairing is what puts the pattern where it sits on this page's list, ahead of problems that dominate metros built in other decades, under other skies.
On a first visit for this pattern, a local technician's checks run in a practised order:
PROBLEM
SOLUTIONPopulation 1,582,432
Population 71,471
Population 71,124
Population 50,930
Population 44,500
Population 33,209
Population 30,309
Population 30,015
Population 25,025
Population 24,071
Population 23,392
Population 23,375
Also in the Philadelphia metro: Bear (population 22,604).
Beyond Philadelphia itself, the metro takes in Camden (71,471 residents), Wilmington (71,124) and the rest of the communities in the grid above — each fitted with heating and cooling in its own building era, which is why two streets in the same metro can need entirely different HVAC conversations. The ZIP list below is the full coverage footprint: if your code is on it, this page was written about your housing stock.
Also on the Philadelphia map: Levittown (50,930), Sicklerville (44,500), Chester (33,209), Newark (30,309), Drexel Hill (30,015) — communities spread across New Castle, Cecil, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Salem, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia, each with housing from its own growth years. A technician routed through TempReach USA to any of them is working from this same page: the metro data does not change at the city limit, but the housing on your street — its age, its equipment, its attic — is what the visit is really about.
Every metro has a first city and a supporting cast, and the census figures draw the billing plainly here: Philadelphia first, with 1,582,432 residents; Camden second at 71,471; Wilmington third at 71,124; then the long tail of smaller communities in the grid above. The billing matters less than the building dates — each of these places was fitted with heating and cooling in its own decade, by its own builders — but between them they account for nearly every housing era, equipment generation and failure pattern this page describes.
Draw the metro by its paperwork and it resolves into New Castle, Cecil, Burlington, Camden, Gloucester, Salem, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia — 11 jurisdictions sharing one housing stock and one weather system. New Castle County holds the historic centre and the densest share of the older homes; the surrounding counties hold the rings of growth around it. Permits and inspections follow those boundaries even though temperature never does, which is part of why the technician this page connects you to works these streets specifically.
This page ends at the metro boundary, but the region does not: Reading, PA, Lancaster, PA and Allentown, PA continue the coverage in their own directions, each with a profile built from its own Census and NOAA figures. If your home sits near the line between metros, go by your ZIP code — it places you in the dataset that describes your housing.
Set Philadelphia among its neighbours and the contrasts sharpen the profile: Reading, PA — metro population 440,072, median build year 1968 — sits 50 miles away; Lancaster, PA (563,159, median 1977) 51 miles; Allentown, PA (887,615, median 1970) 63 miles. Three different housing stocks under three nearby skies, which is why each keeps its own page and its own problem ranking rather than borrowing this one.
Divide the stock by the map and the densities appear: roughly 6,882 housing units for every covered ZIP code, 222,353 households to a county, 13 named communities in the grid. The balance between the generations reads 4.8 pre-1980 homes for every home built since 2000 — a single ratio that quietly predicts whether a metro's HVAC week leans toward renewal work in the old districts or first-generation upkeep in the new ones.
One line of Philadelphia arithmetic — a median home 60 years old · 1,638,741 owner-occupied homes against 807,141 renter-occupied · 2,987 pre-1960 homes for every covered ZIP code · a heating-to-cooling degree-day ratio of 3.32 · 1,120 mm of rain in an average year.
County pages carry the local detail — land area, climate normals and the heating and cooling pressures on the ground in each county.
More plain-language help: the TempReach USA heating & cooling guides
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