Jacksonville / Starke
Starke has 5,877 residents (give or take 24) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US1268525, checked 2026-10-19), about 819 people per square mile.
Starke is about 38 miles from the Census center point for Jacksonville in a straight line and covers 7.178 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 2,202 occupied homes in Starke, 5% heat with natural gas, 0% with heating oil, 94% with electricity and 0% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US1268525, checked 2026-10-19).
Electricity already heats 94% of Starke homes, ahead of gas at 5%, and a home on electric baseboard sees the biggest bill change from a heat pump because it replaces resistance heat one for one.
Starke has about the Bradford County oil share of 0% and 1 points less electric heat than the county's 95% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US12007, checked 2026-10-19).
Starke has 2,583 housing units, 5% built before 1940 and 52% before 1980, with 18% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US1268525, checked 2026-10-19).
The median Starke home was built in 1978 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US1268525, checked 2026-10-19) and the median home has 5.5 rooms (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25018, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25018?g=160XX00US1268525, checked 2026-10-19).
61% of Starke homes are single-family detached, 5% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 23% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=160XX00US1268525, checked 2026-10-19).
44% of Starke homes are rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US1268525, checked 2026-10-19), so beside the 61% 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 Starke on this door yet, so this page does not name one; the name on the bill decides which rebate path applies.
Florida utility heat pump rebates (Orlando, Tampa), run by OUC / Duke Energy Florida / TECO, is a live program for Florida addresses and publishes its terms without one headline figure (registry row 26 verified 2026-10-15, https://www.ouc.com/solutions-programs/savings/rebates/heat-pump-ac/, checked 2026-10-16); confirm eligibility for the Starke address before counting it. With 94% of Starke homes already on electric heat and 5% on gas, oil or propane, the row that applies depends on the name on the electric bill and the fuel coming out.
Heating design temperature: 33F. Source: ENERGY STAR Design Temperature Limit Reference Guide (2019 Edition), Bradford County row, 99% heating, PDF pages 17 to 20 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 33F figure is the Bradford County cold-day number a Starke heat pump is sized against, so ask the installer to show the system's heating output at 33F, not at the milder rating-label temperature.
Ask for the heat-loss calculation room by room; the median Starke home has 5.5 rooms and was built around 1978, 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 Starke. The public number is the number the contractor quotes from.
No local contractor is named on this door for Starke yet. A request from this page goes to the first licensed shop that takes the door.