Wichita / Garden City
Garden City has 27,819 residents (give or take 52) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US2025325, checked 2026-10-19), about 2,483 people per square mile.
Garden City is about 192 miles from the Census center point for Wichita in a straight line and covers 11.205 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 9,941 occupied homes in Garden City, 74% heat with natural gas, 0% with heating oil, 23% with electricity and 3% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US2025325, checked 2026-10-19).
Gas heats 74% of Garden City against electricity at 23%, so most quotes here are a partial-home system that carries the shoulder seasons and the summer while the gas boiler stays for the deepest cold, or a whole-home system when the house is ready for it.
Garden City has about the Finney County oil share of 0% and 1 points more electric heat than the county's 22% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US20055, checked 2026-10-19).
Garden City has 10,798 housing units, 10% built before 1940 and 57% before 1980, with 15% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US2025325, checked 2026-10-19).
The median Garden City home was built in 1977 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US2025325, checked 2026-10-19) and the median home has 5.4 rooms (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25018, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25018?g=160XX00US2025325, checked 2026-10-19).
60% of Garden City homes are single-family detached, 15% 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=160XX00US2025325, checked 2026-10-19).
40% of Garden City homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US2025325, checked 2026-10-19), so beside the 60% 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 Garden City on this door yet, so this page does not name one; the name on the bill decides which rebate path applies.
Heating design temperature: 6F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), Finney County row, 99% heating, PDF pages 41 to 46 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 6F figure is the Finney County cold-day number a Garden City heat pump is sized against, so ask the installer to show the system's heating output at 6F, not at the milder rating-label temperature.
Ask whether the quote is whole-home or partial-home, because with 74% of Garden City on gas and 23% already electric the two paths carry different rebate figures and different sizing.
Ask for the heat-loss calculation room by room; the median Garden City home has 5.4 rooms and was built around 1977, 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 Garden City. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.
No local contractor is named on this door for Garden City yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.