Welcome is an unincorporated community in northern Davidson County, about 16 miles southwest of the High Point hub on the road toward Lexington. Around 3,500 people are spread across nine-plus square miles of census-designated territory. That's a low-density place, and it shows in the housing: 61% detached houses and a notable 24% mobile or manufactured homes.
The biggest factor: Welcome is mostly electric
Census figures put electricity as the main heating fuel in about 71% of Welcome's roughly 1,380 households. Piped gas serves around 20%, with propane and heating oil at roughly 4% apiece. So for most local homeowners, "furnace installation" really means a heat pump system, not a gas burner.
Five things that move a Welcome quote
- Site-built vs. manufactured. A manufactured home needs equipment rated for it, often a downflow unit or a packaged system, and connections under the floor.
- Backup strips. All-electric homes typically get an outdoor heat pump married to an indoor blower cabinet carrying resistance strips, sized to the house.
- Oil or propane conversions. Owners leaving an aging oil furnace have to decide what happens to the tank, and whether gas service is even available on their road.
- Homes on the gas main. Here a gas-fired furnace plus outdoor pump makes a hybrid system.
- Crawlspace ducts. With a median build year of 1978, plenty of homes run ducts through a crawlspace where joints have loosened over four decades.
Who we are
Equipment is sold factory-direct by Furnace Direct, a DBA of Hamlin Mechanical LLC, and northern Davidson County, Welcome included, is on the High Point crew route.
Best time and next steps
Slow seasons in the Triad are spring and fall. Before you ring, jot down fuel, whether the house is manufactured, and how old the existing unit is: (888) 762-1334. Call for Pricing.
Welcome CDP numbers come from ACS 2020–2024 via Census Reporter.
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