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Albany has 100,492 residents (give or take 63) (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B01003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B01003?g=160XX00US3601000, checked 2026-10-19), about 4,695 people per square mile.
Albany is about 257 miles from the Census center point for Buffalo in a straight line and covers 21.404 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 44,357 occupied homes in Albany, 63% heat with natural gas, 2% with heating oil, 32% with electricity and 2% with propane (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=160XX00US3601000, checked 2026-10-19).
Albany has 4 points less oil heat than Albany County as a whole, where 6% of homes burn oil, and 9 points more electric heat than the county's 23% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25040, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25040?g=050XX00US36001, checked 2026-10-19).
Gas heats 63% of Albany against electricity at 32%, so most quotes here are a partial-home system that carries the shoulder seasons and the summer while the gas furnace handles the coldest nights, or a whole-home system when the house is ready for it.
Albany has 50,408 housing units, 43% built before 1940 and 79% before 1980, with 9% built in 2000 or later (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=160XX00US3601000, checked 2026-10-19).
The median Albany home was built in 1949 (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25035, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25035?g=160XX00US3601000, checked 2026-10-19) and the median home has 4.9 rooms (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25018, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25018?g=160XX00US3601000, checked 2026-10-19).
Albany has 16 points more pre-1940 homes than Albany County as a whole (27%) and 5 points fewer homes built after 2000 than the county's 14% (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25034, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25034?g=050XX00US36001, checked 2026-10-19). An older stock means more insulation upgrades before the heat pump goes in.
28% of Albany homes are single-family detached, 40% are in two- to four-unit buildings and 27% are in buildings of five or more units (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25024, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25024?g=160XX00US3601000, checked 2026-10-19).
A two- or three-family building is the common Albany case at 40% of the stock against 28% detached houses, and each unit usually gets its own small outdoor unit and its own rebate account rather than one big system for the building. With 62% of Albany homes rented (ACS 2020-2024 5-year, table B25003, https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT5Y2024.B25003?g=160XX00US3601000, checked 2026-10-19), the landlord signs the quote in many of them.