Las Vegas / West Wendover
West Wendover has 4,514 residents (give or take 22) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US3283730, checked 2026-10-19), about 604 people per square mile.
West Wendover is about 318 miles from the Census center point for Las Vegas in a straight line and covers 7.478 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).
Median household income in West Wendover is $49,013 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B19013, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B19013?g=160XX00US3283730, 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.
24% of West Wendover homes are single-family detached, 13% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 11% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=160XX00US3283730, checked 2026-10-19).
44% of West Wendover homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US3283730, checked 2026-10-19), so beside the 24% detached houses there is a real share of jobs where the landlord, not the resident, signs the quote.
West Wendover has 32 points fewer detached houses than Elko County overall (56%) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=050XX00US32007, checked 2026-10-19).
44% of West Wendover homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US3283730, checked 2026-10-19), so the market splits between resident-led jobs where the occupant picks the system and landlord-led jobs where they do not, and the rebate paperwork differs.
Of the 2,169 occupied homes in West Wendover, 17% heat with natural gas, 0% with heating oil, 57% with electricity and 3% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US3283730, checked 2026-10-19).
Electricity already heats 57% of West Wendover homes, ahead of gas at 17%, and a home on electric baseboard sees the biggest bill change from a heat pump because it replaces resistance heat one for one.
West Wendover has about the Elko County oil share of 1% and 26 points more electric heat than the county's 31% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US32007, checked 2026-10-19).
No electric utility is on file for West Wendover on this door yet, so this page does not name one; the name on the bill decides which rebate path applies.
West Wendover has 2,289 housing units, 0% built before 1940 and 11% before 1980, with 26% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US3283730, checked 2026-10-19).
West Wendover has 5 points fewer pre-1940 homes than Elko County as a whole (5%) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=050XX00US32007, checked 2026-10-19).
The median West Wendover home was built in 1989 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US3283730, checked 2026-10-19) and the median home has 4.8 rooms (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25018, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25018?g=160XX00US3283730, checked 2026-10-19).
Heating design temperature: -16F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), Elko 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 -16F figure is the Elko County cold-day number a West Wendover heat pump is sized against, so ask the installer to show the system's heating output at -16F, not at the milder rating-label temperature.
Ask for the heat-loss calculation room by room; the median West Wendover home has 4.8 rooms and was built around 1989, 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 West Wendover. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.
No local contractor is named on this door for West Wendover yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.