Hempstead / Williston Park

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

Williston Park, 4 miles out

Williston Park is about 4 miles from the Census center point for Hempstead in a straight line and covers 0.626 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).

Williston Park has 7,542 residents (give or take 75) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US3682117, checked 2026-10-19), about 12,048 people per square mile.

The quote form takes a ZIP code; for Williston Park that is 11596 (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).

At 12,048 people per square mile, Williston Park is dense enough that noise setback rules and outdoor-unit placement on a small lot are the first questions the installer works through.

What heats Williston Park

Of the 2,531 occupied homes in Williston Park, 85% heat with natural gas, 10% with heating oil, 4% with electricity and 2% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US3682117, checked 2026-10-19).

Williston Park has 16 points less oil heat than Nassau County as a whole, where 26% of homes burn oil, and 3 points less electric heat than the county's 7% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US36059, checked 2026-10-19).

Gas heats 85% of Williston Park against oil at 10%, 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.

Age of the housing

The median Williston Park home was built in 1938 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US3682117, checked 2026-10-19) and the median home has 6.3 rooms (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25018, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25018?g=160XX00US3682117, checked 2026-10-19).

Williston Park has 2,652 housing units, 54% built before 1940 and 96% before 1980, with 1% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US3682117, checked 2026-10-19).

Williston Park has 35 points more pre-1940 homes than Nassau County as a whole (19%) and 6 points fewer homes built after 2000 than the county's 7% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=050XX00US36059, checked 2026-10-19). An older stock means more insulation upgrades before the heat pump goes in.

54% of Williston Park homes were built before 1940 and 96% before 1980 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US3682117, 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

74% of Williston Park homes are single-family detached, 9% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 14% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=160XX00US3682117, checked 2026-10-19).

With 74% detached houses and 9% in small multi-family buildings, a Williston Park quote is usually one or two outdoor units with ducted or ductless heads sized room by room. With 21% of Williston Park homes rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US3682117, checked 2026-10-19), the landlord signs the quote in many of them.

Utility and rebate

No electric utility is on file for Williston Park 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 Williston Park address before counting it. With 4% of Williston Park homes already on electric heat and 97% 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 Williston Park is $156,382 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B19013, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B19013?g=160XX00US3682117, 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: 9F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), Nassau 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 9F figure is the Nassau County cold-day number a Williston Park heat pump is sized against, so ask the installer to show the system's heating output at 9F, not at the milder rating-label temperature.

Next step

Ask whether the quote is whole-home or partial-home, because with 85% of Williston Park on gas and 4% already electric the two paths carry different rebate figures and different sizing.

Ask for the heat-loss calculation room by room; a Williston Park house from before 1940 (54% of the 2,652 units) rarely matches a square-footage rule of thumb.

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

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

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