New York HVAC leads
One in five owner-occupied New York homes, 20.3%, burns fuel oil for heat, and in Suffolk County the share is 47.7%, in the Census Bureau’s table B25117 (ACS 2020-2024). HVAC is now onboarding at Summit Leads, so no HVAC leads are delivered in New York yet; buyers can join the HVAC list now.
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New York facts for HVAC lead buyers
| Fact | Value Source |
|---|---|
| Owner-occupied homes heated by utility gas | 60.7% (2,546,158 of 4,196,985 owner-occupied units; ACS 5-year 2020-2024, table B25117)Table B25117, Tenure by House Heating Fuel: New York (ACS 5-Year 2020-2024) U.S. Census Bureau |
| Owner-occupied homes heated by fuel oil or kerosene | 20.3% (851,084 units; ACS 5-year 2020-2024), the eighth-highest share of the 50 statesTable B25117, Tenure by House Heating Fuel: New York (ACS 5-Year 2020-2024) U.S. Census Bureau |
| Owner-occupied homes heated by electricity | 8.6% (361,140 units; ACS 5-year 2020-2024), the seventh-lowest share of the 50 statesTable B25117, Tenure by House Heating Fuel: New York (ACS 5-Year 2020-2024) U.S. Census Bureau |
| Owner-occupied homes heated by bottled, tank or LP gas | 6.3% (264,303 units; ACS 5-year 2020-2024)Table B25117, Tenure by House Heating Fuel: New York (ACS 5-Year 2020-2024) U.S. Census Bureau |
| Owner-occupied homes heated by wood | 2.2% (91,226 units; ACS 5-year 2020-2024)Table B25117, Tenure by House Heating Fuel: New York (ACS 5-Year 2020-2024) U.S. Census Bureau |
| All occupied homes by main heating fuel | Utility gas 59.1% and electricity 15.4% of 7,722,646 occupied units (ACS 5-year 2020-2024, table B25040)Table B25040, House Heating Fuel: New York (ACS 5-Year 2020-2024) U.S. Census Bureau |
| Heating degree days, 2025 | 5,918 (1991-2020 average 6,001), 16th highest of the 48 states with a statewide seriesClimate at a Glance: New York heating degree days, January-December, 1895-2025 NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information |
| Cooling degree days, 2025 | 721 (1991-2020 average 618)Climate at a Glance: New York cooling degree days, January-December, 1895-2025 NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information |
| Owner-occupied housing units | 4,196,985 of 7,722,646 occupied units (ACS 5-year 2020-2024)Table B25003, Tenure: New York (ACS 5-Year 2020-2024) U.S. Census Bureau |
| Renter-occupied housing units | 3,525,661, or 45.7% of occupied units (ACS 5-year 2020-2024, table B25003)Table B25003, Tenure: New York (ACS 5-Year 2020-2024) U.S. Census Bureau |
| Suffolk County owner homes heated by fuel oil | 47.7% of 421,146 owner-occupied homes, the highest share among the ten counties with the most owner homes (ACS 5-year 2020-2024)Table B25117, Tenure by House Heating Fuel: New York counties (ACS 5-Year 2020-2024) U.S. Census Bureau |
| NYS Clean Heat program | Statewide heat pump program site listing rebates, financing and a contractor directory, run with NYSERDA (checked October 8, 2026)NYS Clean Heat: heat pump rebates, financing and contractors NYS Clean Heat (NYSERDA) |
Last reviewed: October 8, 2026. A summary for education, not legal advice.
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How New York homes are heated
Fuel oil is the second heating fuel of New York’s owner-occupied homes, and a large one. The Census Bureau’s table B25117 for 2020-2024 counts 851,084 oil-heated owner homes, 20.3% of 4,196,985, the eighth-highest oil share of the 50 states. Utility gas leads at 60.7%. Electricity comes third at 8.6%, only 44th among the 50 states for electric share, followed by propane (6.3%) and wood (2.2%).
| Heating fuel | Owner-occupied homes | Share | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utility gas | 2,546,158 | 60.7% | ACS 2020-2024, B25117 |
| Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. | 851,084 | 20.3% | ACS 2020-2024, B25117 |
| Electricity | 361,140 | 8.6% | ACS 2020-2024, B25117 |
| Bottled, tank or LP gas | 264,303 | 6.3% | ACS 2020-2024, B25117 |
| Wood | 91,226 | 2.2% | ACS 2020-2024, B25117 |
| Other fuels, no fuel, coal and solar | 83,074 | 2.0% | ACS 2020-2024, B25117 |
Fuel type tells an HVAC buyer what equipment is in the basement. Gas homes have gas furnaces and boilers; oil homes have oil burners and storage tanks, and a replacement there can stay on oil, move to gas where service exists, or add a heat pump. The numbers describe the housing and say nothing about the share of requests from any fuel group.
Counting apartments and other rentals, table B25040 (2020-2024 ACS) shows utility gas at 59.1% and electricity at 15.4% of all 7,722,646 occupied New York homes, so electric heat is far more common in rented units than in owned ones.
New York heating and cooling degree days
Statewide, New York recorded 5,918 heating degree days in 2025 in the NCEI heating series, a little under the 1991-2020 average of 6,001 and 16th highest among the 48 states with a statewide series.
Cooling demand ran well above normal: the cooling degree day series shows 721 for 2025 against a 1991-2020 average of 618. Heating still outweighed cooling about eight to one. These are statewide averages, and conditions differ between regions of a state this large.
Method in brief: NCEI totals, for every day of the year, the degrees between the daily mean temperature and 65°F, counting days below 65°F toward heating and days above it toward cooling. The 2025 value is that January-December total for the statewide series; the comparison averages its yearly totals over 1991-2020.
New York owners and renters for HVAC buyers
The Census Bureau’s table B25003 counts 4,196,985 owner-occupied homes and 3,525,661 renter-occupied homes for 2020-2024, so 45.7% of occupied homes are rented. Owners approve a new boiler, furnace or heat pump; in a rental building, the landlord or managing agent chooses the system and the contractor.
Housing age, the energy code and window details for the state are on New York window replacement leads rather than here.
New York heat pump program
NYS Clean Heat is a statewide heat pump program whose site lists NYSERDA, the state energy research and development authority, as its contact, with the state’s utilities as sponsors. When checked on October 8, 2026, the site listed heat pump rebates and financing, a tool to compare heat pump types by home type and a directory to find a participating contractor, and said its rebates can be combined with federal tax credits.
The site gives no single statewide rebate amount on its home page, so none is quoted here. For a buyer whose technicians install heat pumps, the program site is the official place to check whether a homeowner’s project fits the program.
New York counties by owner-occupied homes
This table lists the ten New York counties with the most owner-occupied homes and the share heated by utility gas and by fuel oil, the two fuels that split the state. Source: ACS 5-year 2020-2024, tables B25003 and B25117 at county level. It is a housing table and carries no information about where leads come from.
| County | Owner-occupied homes | Heated by utility gas | Heated by fuel oil | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suffolk | 421,146 | 40.9% | 47.7% | ACS 2020-2024, B25003 and B25117 (county) |
| Queens | 377,295 | 77.6% | 11.2% | ACS 2020-2024, B25003 and B25117 (county) |
| Nassau | 375,466 | 62.6% | 28.9% | ACS 2020-2024, B25003 and B25117 (county) |
| Kings (Brooklyn) | 297,916 | 79.3% | 7.0% | ACS 2020-2024, B25003 and B25117 (county) |
| Erie | 269,652 | 92.1% | 1.0% | ACS 2020-2024, B25003 and B25117 (county) |
| Westchester | 230,602 | 53.6% | 32.1% | ACS 2020-2024, B25003 and B25117 (county) |
| Monroe | 202,708 | 83.3% | 1.5% | ACS 2020-2024, B25003 and B25117 (county) |
| New York (Manhattan) | 194,982 | 49.8% | 19.1% | ACS 2020-2024, B25003 and B25117 (county) |
| Onondaga | 130,389 | 79.3% | 3.9% | ACS 2020-2024, B25003 and B25117 (county) |
| Richmond (Staten Island) | 115,688 | 87.7% | 3.8% | ACS 2020-2024, B25003 and B25117 (county) |
Suffolk County, on eastern Long Island, is the only large county where oil outranks gas: 47.7% of owner homes on oil against 40.9% on gas in the same county data (2020-2024 ACS). Westchester (32.1%) and Nassau (28.9%) also lean on oil, while the upstate metro counties of Erie and Monroe are almost entirely gas, at 92.1% and 83.3%.
Reading the New York numbers for HVAC coverage
Three observations follow from the figures above for a buyer working out New York coverage:
- Downstate and upstate are different fuel markets. Long Island and Westchester carry oil shares of 28.9% to 47.7% while Erie and Monroe are under 2% oil, in the county table (2020-2024 ACS). A buyer can match ZIP codes to the fuels its crews service.
- Owners are a smaller share of homes. With 45.7% of occupied homes rented in the 2020-2024 ACS, the homeowner filterFilterA rule that decides which leads a buyer is offered, based on fields such as vertical, sub-type, state, ZIP code, homeownership or accident details. Glossary removes close to half of all occupied homes.
- Heat pumps have an official program. The NYS Clean Heat site lists rebates and financing for heat pumps, which gives homeowners with oil or gas systems a documented alternative to compare when they replace.
These are readings of housing, climate and program records; none of them estimates how many HVAC requests any area of New York produces.
What New York HVAC buyers filter on
New York HVAC buyers filter on the same kinds of fields as other home services buyers. In New York, each one links to a fact on this page:
- Project type: for example install, replace or repair, for heating or cooling. Heating work is the larger share of the year, and some buyers separate oil systems from gas.
- Homeowner status: 4,196,985 owner-occupied homes against 3,525,661 rented ones, so this filter does more work here (ACS 2020-2024, B25003).
- Timeframe: an urgent no-heat or no-cooling repair versus a planned replacement or heat pump project.
- ZIP code: buyers choose their ZIP codes, for example Long Island’s oil-heavy towns or the gas-heated upstate metros.
When HVAC opens, New York buyers will set these filters per campaign, down to the ZIP code, as on Summit’s other home services leads. Once HVAC opens, HVAC leads will be exclusive by default, with shared delivery on request. The sample HVAC lead lists all of the fields.
Where buyers filter in New York
New York HVAC companies generally stick to one region, and the gap between the New York City area and the upstate metros is wide. The six largest metro areas in the state, in Census Bureau estimates for July 1, 2025, are below; the New York City figure is for the whole metro area, which crosses into New Jersey. Once HVAC opens, buyers will be able to set coverage on any ZIP code, inside these areas or outside them.
- New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ: 20,112,448 (July 1, 2025 estimate, whole metro area)
- Buffalo-Cheektowaga: 1,155,653 (July 1, 2025 estimate)
- Rochester: 1,056,149 (July 1, 2025 estimate)
- Albany-Schenectady-Troy: 915,835 (July 1, 2025 estimate)
- Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh: 718,377 (July 1, 2025 estimate)
- Syracuse: 652,273 (July 1, 2025 estimate)
Source: Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Area population estimates, Vintage 2025 (cbsa-est2025-alldata), U.S. Census Bureau.
Consent records for New York HVAC leads
When HVAC opens, each New York HVAC lead will carry the TCPATCPAThe Telephone Consumer Protection Act, the federal law that governs telemarketing calls and texts, autodialers, prerecorded voice messages and the Do Not Call Registry. Glossary consent record captured on the form. New York calling rules that go beyond the federal TCPA are covered in the New York row of the state telemarketing laws table, and the no-fault and home improvement overview for the state sits on leads in New York.
New York HVAC lead questions
How many New York owner-occupied homes heat with oil?
851,084, or 20.3% of owner-occupied homes, in the Census Bureau’s ACS 5-year estimates for 2020-2024 (table B25117). That is the eighth-highest oil share of the 50 states.
Why is Suffolk County different from the rest of New York for heating?
Fuel oil heats 47.7% of Suffolk County’s owner-occupied homes, more than utility gas at 40.9%, in the Census Bureau’s ACS 5-year county data for 2020-2024 (table B25117). It is the only one of the ten largest counties by owner homes where oil leads.
How did New York’s 2025 cooling degree days compare with normal?
NOAA NCEI’s Climate at a Glance shows 721 cooling degree days for New York in 2025, against a 1991-2020 average of 618. Heating degree days were 5,918, slightly under their average of 6,001.
What is NYS Clean Heat?
A statewide heat pump program with its own site, cleanheat.ny.gov, run with NYSERDA. When checked on October 8, 2026, it listed heat pump rebates, financing and a contractor directory.
Could a buyer take New York HVAC leads in selected ZIP codes, such as Long Island only?
Not yet: HVAC is now onboarding. When it opens, buyers will set filters down to the ZIP code, as on Summit’s other home services leads, and leads will be exclusive by default.
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