Heat pump vs. gas furnace in Campton Hills, IL

In Campton Hills, a heat pump would cost more to run each year than what you have now. Swap a failed furnace and AC for a heat pump rather than buying like-for-like, and the extra cost here runs $3,500 after a $2,000 federal tax credit. Running costs here land $295 a year HIGHER than the furnace it replaces, so that premium is never recovered. That's Campton Hills's own climate and rates talking, not a hedge or a caveat.

Campton Hills's weather, in the numbers that matter

5064 heating degree days pile up here every year, so Campton Hills has a cold winter that leans hard on heating equipment; the cooling side runs to 915 cooling degree days, where summers add a moderate cooling load. -7.1°F is the figure equipment gets sized against here — the 99th-percentile cold snap, not an average day — with a record low of -14.1°F on file. Worked through the model, that's a seasonal COP of 2.53 on the cold-climate unit fit for this climate. Campton Hills needs the cold-climate class of unit: past a 25°F design temperature a standard heat pump falls back on resistance backup often enough to eat the savings. Climate figures trace to the nearest NOAA station, DUPAGE AIRPORT, 9.1 miles from Campton Hills.

The month-to-month numbers for Campton Hills

Electricity use for heating alone comes out to about 5,068 kWh a year on the 2000-square-foot reference house; folding in cooling puts the electric bill near $1,115 a year. The gas furnace it replaces burns roughly 53 Mcf a year at 11.25 per Mcf here, for a running cost near $819 a year (electricity here runs 19.06¢/kWh). Looked at as a full purchase rather than an incremental one, payback here is longer than the 15-year equipment life, leaving the 15-year total $7,930 behind.

If your home heats with electric baseboard instead of gas

Not every home in Campton Hills has gas service. Against electric-resistance heat — baseboard or an electric furnace, both 100% efficient but still just resistance — the case for switching gets stronger here. The saving here runs about $1,555 a year, which recovers the extra $8,000 spent going electric in roughly 5.1 years.

How Campton Hills compares nationally

Campton Hills lands at position 643 out of 3206 cities on heating severity (coldest is 1), and 3005 out of 3206 by population size (biggest is 1). That's the coldest third of the dataset, where climate does most of the work behind this figure.

What to do with this number in Campton Hills

Campton Hills, Illinois is home to about 10,894 people, and the figures above are the same ones a local HVAC contractor uses to size and quote a system — this site doesn't guess where a real quote would land, it just tells you whether it's worth asking for one. In Campton Hills, nothing is lost by holding off until the current equipment genuinely fails.

Line up a few local HVAC quotes before you decide.

More on how this number was built

Every constant behind this page — the 2.53 seasonal COP, the degree-day corrections, the equipment costs — is documented in the methodology guide. Campton Hills's -7.1°F design temperature falls on the cold side of the 25°F cutoff the cold-climate unit guide walks through.