Las Vegas / Moapa Valley

Heat pump installation in Moapa Valley, NV - rebates, sizing and local data

Moapa Valley, 52 miles out

Moapa Valley is about 52 miles from the Census center point for Las Vegas in a straight line and covers 43.656 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).

Moapa Valley has 6,684 residents (give or take 907) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US3247880, checked 2026-10-19), about 153 people per square mile.

The quote form takes a ZIP code; for Moapa Valley that is 89021 (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).

Moapa Valley is spread out at 153 people per square mile across 43.656 square miles of land, so a long refrigerant line run between the outdoor unit and the farthest indoor head is the sizing question an installer checks first.

What heats Moapa Valley

Of the 2,190 occupied homes in Moapa Valley, 7% heat with natural gas, 0% with heating oil, 89% with electricity and 3% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US3247880, checked 2026-10-19).

Moapa Valley has about the Clark County oil share of 0% and 53 points more electric heat than the county's 36% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US32003, checked 2026-10-19).

Electricity already heats 89% of Moapa Valley homes, ahead of gas at 7%, and a home on electric baseboard sees the biggest bill change from a heat pump because it replaces resistance heat one for one.

Age of the housing

The median Moapa Valley home was built in 1990 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US3247880, checked 2026-10-19) and the median home has 6.1 rooms (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25018, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25018?g=160XX00US3247880, checked 2026-10-19).

Moapa Valley has 2,578 housing units, 6% built before 1940 and 29% before 1980, with 30% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US3247880, checked 2026-10-19).

Moapa Valley has 6 points more pre-1940 homes than Clark County as a whole (0%) and 15 points fewer homes built after 2000 than the county's 45% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=050XX00US32003, checked 2026-10-19). An older stock means more insulation upgrades before the heat pump goes in.

House type

66% of Moapa Valley homes are single-family detached, 4% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 3% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=160XX00US3247880, checked 2026-10-19).

19% of Moapa Valley homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US3247880, checked 2026-10-19), so beside the 66% detached houses there is a real share of jobs where the landlord, not the resident, signs the quote.

Moapa Valley has 6 points more detached houses than Clark County overall (60%) and 21 points fewer five-plus-unit buildings than the county's 24% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=050XX00US32003, checked 2026-10-19).

Utility and rebate

No electric utility is on file for Moapa Valley on this door yet, so this page does not name one; the name on the bill decides which rebate path applies.

Median household income in Moapa Valley is $89,250 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B19013, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B19013?g=160XX00US3247880, 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: 17F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), Clark County row, 99% heating, PDF pages 80 to 81 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 17F figure is the Clark County cold-day number a Moapa Valley heat pump is sized against, so ask the installer to show the system's heating output at 17F, not at the milder rating-label temperature.

Next step

Ask for the heat-loss calculation room by room; the median Moapa Valley home has 6.1 rooms and was built around 1990, 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 Moapa Valley. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.

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

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