Wichita / Great Bend
Great Bend has 14,479 residents (give or take 31) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US2028300, checked 2026-10-19), about 1,375 people per square mile.
Great Bend is about 92 miles from the Census center point for Wichita in a straight line and covers 10.527 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 6,043 occupied homes in Great Bend, 75% heat with natural gas, 0% with heating oil, 21% with electricity and 2% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US2028300, checked 2026-10-19).
Gas heats 75% of Great Bend against electricity at 21%, 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.
Great Bend has about the Barton County oil share of 0% and 2 points more electric heat than the county's 19% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US20009, checked 2026-10-19).
Great Bend has 7,185 housing units, 18% built before 1940 and 79% before 1980, with 9% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US2028300, checked 2026-10-19).
The median Great Bend home was built in 1959 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US2028300, checked 2026-10-19) and the median home has 5.6 rooms (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25018, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25018?g=160XX00US2028300, checked 2026-10-19).
70% of Great Bend homes are single-family detached, 10% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 8% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=160XX00US2028300, checked 2026-10-19).
With 70% detached houses and 10% in small multi-family buildings, a Great Bend quote is usually one or two outdoor units with ducted or ductless heads sized room by room. With 44% of Great Bend homes rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US2028300, checked 2026-10-19), the landlord signs the quote in many of them.
No electric utility is on file for Great Bend on this door yet, so this page does not name one; the name on the bill decides which rebate path applies.
Heating design temperature: 5F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), Barton 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 5F figure is the Barton County cold-day number a Great Bend heat pump is sized against, so ask the installer to show the system's heating output at 5F, not at the milder rating-label temperature.
Ask whether the quote is whole-home or partial-home, because with 75% of Great Bend on gas and 21% already electric the two paths carry different rebate figures and different sizing.
Ask for the heat-loss calculation room by room; the median Great Bend home has 5.6 rooms and was built around 1959, 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 Great Bend. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.
No local contractor is named on this door for Great Bend yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.