I recently came across some interesting statistics (from several independent sources from which I had to compile and average some data) for the county where I live. Medina County has 47,510 families totalling to 169,353 people, with a whopping 30 families officially heating their homes with coal. This vs. roughly 2,155 homes in Medina County which are primarily heated with wood.
In Medina County 76% of homes are heated heat with natural gas, 11% heat with oil, 5.2% heat with electricity and/or propane (why these two are linked and summed together as one number, I have no idea), 4.6% heat with wood or coal (with the vast majority of these using wood), 1.9% use "other" (solar, wind, kerosene heaters, corn pellets, or whatever), and 1.1% have no heat source at all (or at least no documented primary heat source that the county is aware of).
Medina County Ohio and Coal Usage
- Hambden Bob
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- Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: Harman 1998 Magnum Stoker
- Hand Fed Coal Stove: Blower Model Coal Chubby 1982-Serial#0097
- Coal Size/Type: Rice-A-Roni ! / Nut
- Other Heating: Pro-Pain Forced Air
Maybe that 1.1% are plugged into some kind of as of yet unidentified volcanic steam vent. You 'gotta just love stats !
- lsayre
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- Stoker Coal Boiler: AHS S130 Coal Gun
- Coal Size/Type: Lehigh Anthracite Pea
- Other Heating: Resistance Boiler (13.5 KW), ComfortMax 75
Another source I came across (just today) for Medina County, Ohio listed the following regarding the breakdown of the energy sources used county-wide for home heating:
Natural gas (73.5%)
Electricity (11.2%)
Bottled, tank, or LP gas (6.8%)
Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (6.5%)
Wood (1.3%)
Other fuel (0.7%)
This seems to make more sense than the earlier sources I came across. Either way, coal isn't very popular in these parts.
Natural gas (73.5%)
Electricity (11.2%)
Bottled, tank, or LP gas (6.8%)
Fuel oil, kerosene, etc. (6.5%)
Wood (1.3%)
Other fuel (0.7%)
This seems to make more sense than the earlier sources I came across. Either way, coal isn't very popular in these parts.