Heat Pump Payback in Jesup, GA
Jesup, GA: the heat pump payback math
Jesup sits right on the fence, how long you'll own the house decides this one. Against a like-for-like gas furnace and AC swap, going electric costs $3,000 more up front here. That premium is recovered through $298 of lower running costs every year, landing the payback clock at roughly 10.1 years. Whether that's worth it in Jesup depends on how many years you expect to own the place.
Compare against another city
Jesup is one of 3206 cities covered here, each run through the same model. Search another below.
The climate behind Jesup's payback figure
Degree days tell the story here: Jesup racks up 1429 heating degree days each year (base 65°F), and summers are severe enough that cooling can dominate the annual bill, with 2588 cooling degree days on the cooling side. 28.4°F is the figure equipment gets sized against here, the 99th-percentile cold snap, not an average day, with a low of 26.6°F in the 2024 station record. Worked through the model, that's a seasonal COP of 3.05 on the standard unit fit for this climate. A standard ducted system is enough here; Jesup's design temperature doesn't justify the cold-climate premium. Source: NOAA station Jesup Wayne County Airport, 2.9 miles from Jesup, the closest one on record.
What it actually costs to run, year to year
Modelled on a typical 2000-square-foot house, the heat pump draws about 1,186 kWh a year to keep it warm, plus cooling, for a combined electric bill near $506 a year. Jesup's gas rate of $20.42 per Mcf, applied to the 15 Mcf a year the furnace burns, puts the current furnace-and-AC running cost near $804 a year, against 14.90¢ per kWh for electricity. If the current system still worked and you replaced it anyway, the full cost would take longer than the 15-year equipment life to earn back; against buying a new furnace and AC regardless, the 15-year total lands $1,472 ahead.
How sensitive Jesup's result is to prices
This result holds unless electricity climbs above 780.6¢/kWh (it is 14.90¢ now) or gas drops below $0.39 per Mcf (now $20.42); past either point, gas becomes the cheaper fuel in Jesup. When quotes arrive, compare the heat pump price with a like-for-like furnace and AC replacement: at $298 a year saved, a difference under $2,086 pays back within 7 years here, and under $2,980 within 10.
Electric resistance heat in Jesup, compared
Plenty of homes in Jesup heat with electricity alone, no gas line involved. Compared with baseboard or electric-furnace resistance heat, the numbers shift in the heat pump’s favor. About $533 a year comes back this way, enough that the 14.1-year payback clears the $7,500 premium comfortably within the equipment's life.
Where Jesup ranks in this dataset
Jesup lands at position 2718 out of 3206 cities on heating severity (coldest is 1), and 3143 out of 3206 by population size (biggest is 1). That's the mildest third of cities covered, where utility rates carry more of the answer than climate does.
What to do with this number in Jesup
About 10,235 people live in Jesup, Georgia, and every number on this page is what a contractor would actually work from when quoting a system here, the point isn't to replace that quote, it's to tell you whether to bother asking for one. Here, there's no cost penalty to waiting until your current furnace or AC actually needs replacing.
Ask a local HVAC contractor for a quote before committing either way.
More on how this number was built
Every constant behind this page, the 3.05 seasonal COP, the degree-day corrections, the equipment costs, is documented in the methodology guide. Not every home in Jesup has gas; the guide comparing a heat pump against electric baseboard covers that case separately.