Nashville / Athens
Athens has 14,471 residents (give or take 36) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US4702320, checked 2026-10-19), about 930 people per square mile.
Athens is about 132 miles from the Census center point for Nashville in a straight line and covers 15.562 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 5,874 occupied homes in Athens, 35% heat with natural gas, 0% with heating oil, 63% with electricity and 1% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US4702320, checked 2026-10-19).
Electricity already heats 63% of Athens homes, ahead of gas at 35%, and a home on electric baseboard sees the biggest bill change from a heat pump because it replaces resistance heat one for one.
Athens has about the McMinn County oil share of 0% and 4 points less electric heat than the county's 67% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US47107, checked 2026-10-19).
Athens has 6,669 housing units, 7% built before 1940 and 59% before 1980, with 18% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US4702320, checked 2026-10-19).
The median Athens home was built in 1972 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US4702320, 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=160XX00US4702320, checked 2026-10-19).
69% of Athens homes are single-family detached, 10% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 15% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=160XX00US4702320, checked 2026-10-19).
40% of Athens homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US4702320, checked 2026-10-19), so beside the 69% detached houses there is a real share of jobs where the landlord, not the resident, signs the quote.
No electric utility is on file for Athens on this door yet, so this page does not name one; the name on the bill decides which rebate path applies.
Heating design temperature: 18F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), McMinn County row, 99% heating, PDF pages 111 to 115 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 18F figure is the McMinn County cold-day number a Athens heat pump is sized against, so ask the installer to show the system's heating output at 18F, not at the milder rating-label temperature.
Ask for the heat-loss calculation room by room; the median Athens home has 5.5 rooms and was built around 1972, and the count of heads and the tonnage follow the rooms and the insulation, not the square footage.
The form on this page is the follow-up for Athens. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.
No local contractor is named on this door for Athens yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.