HVAC Cost Stats: High Point, NC (2026)

High Point by the data

In the Piedmont Triad, heating and cooling loads are close to balanced. Piedmont Triad International Airport records 3,499.7 HDD and 1,552.2 CDD in a normal year, which is a big reason heat pumps are popular here.

Technician wage

HVAC mechanics in the Greensboro–High Point MSA earned a median $28.14 an hour ($58,520 a year) in May 2025.

Power price (NC statewide)

14.95¢ per kWh, August 2026.

Gas price (NC statewide)

n/a. EIA has not posted a 2025 annual North Carolina residential figure.

Housing stock

Median year built in High Point: 1989. That is the newest housing among our seven furnace.direct metros.

High Point spans Guilford County (plus small parts of neighboring counties). The city runs its own electric utility (City of High Point, which also handles permits). Gas comes from Piedmont Natural Gas.

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Housing stock and heating fuel in High Point

The High Point city limits held 116,245 residents and 45,872 occupied homes in the Census Bureau's ACS 2024 5-year American Community Survey. Utility gas (48%) and electricity (48%) heat almost the same share of occupied homes, so gas furnaces and heat pumps are both common replacements here. Bottled gas or propane heats 2%.

63% of housing units are single-family detached houses and 58% of occupied homes are owner-occupied. Detached, owner-occupied houses are where most whole-system replacements happen, because the owner chooses the equipment and each house has its own system. Apartments and condos more often use packaged units, wall units or building-managed systems.

These are city-limits figures, not metro-wide, and every survey estimate has a margin of error that you can see on the Census Reporter profile linked above. For city-by-city guides across the state, see the North Carolina HVAC cost guides hub.

Sources: BLS OEWS (SOC 49-9021, May 2025), EIA (state-level), U.S. Census ACS 2020–2024 5-year (B25035), NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals; housing and heating-fuel figures from Census ACS (ACS 2024 5-year, tables B01003, B25003, B25024, B25040), accessed October 31, 2026. Data accessed October 30, 2026. Furnace Direct, a DBA of Hamlin Mechanical LLC.