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Blown-in attic insulation for Conway, NC, in Northampton County, plus removal and air sealing.
About Conway and Its Homes
Conway grew from Martin's Crossroads, settled about 1835, into a stop on the Seaboard Air Line, and by the early 1880s it was called Kirby. It took its present name from the wife of a railroad officer and was incorporated in 1913.
Conway, in Northampton County, fell from 751 people in 2020 to 707 in 2025 (Census Bureau estimates), on 1.82 square miles. That makes Conway the fourth-largest town in Northampton County.
Conway has about 390 housing units, 4 percent of Northampton County's; about 43 percent of the town's households own their home.
Conway at a Glance
- County: Northampton County
- Population: 707 (2025), 751 (2020), down 5.9%
- Land area: 1.82 square miles (388 people each)
- Housing units: about 390 (±89)
- Owner-occupied: 43% (±9); Northampton County: 75%
- Detached houses: 46% (±10); Northampton County: 64%
- Attached houses: under 3%
- Mobile homes: 19% (±9)
- Climate zone: 4 (state code), 3 (2021 map)
- ENERGY STAR target for Conway attics: R-49 from bare, R-38 over 3 to 4 inches (R-value guide)
Census Bureau estimates for Conway, 2020 to 2024 (± margin of error).
Conway Homes and Their Attics
Bungalows at the West End of Main Street
The 2010 county survey picks out a small group of stylish bungalows at the west end of Main Street in Conway. They are a story and a half tall and two rooms deep, with flared eaves, wide porches on brick piers, and side carports of the porte cochere kind. One is an airplane bungalow, whose top room pokes up above the main roof like a cockpit. A half story like these means bedrooms carved out of the roof itself, with short upright walls under the rafters on each side. Both ENERGY STAR and an Iowa state training text flag the wedge-shaped side spaces as leaky, so we seal and insulate them, and the floor beneath them, along with the attic overhead.
Attic Insulation in Conway
About 45 percent of Conway's homes predate 1970; if your joists show above the insulation, ENERGY STAR says to add more insulation.
The Local Climate
Conway's center sits about 100 feet above sea level, 8 miles from NOAA's Murfreesboro station, the best match for Conway. The station's 1991 to 2020 normals average about 3,720 heating and 1,390 cooling degree days a year, so at Conway's station, heating needs outweigh cooling.
Homes by Age: What It Means for the Attic
About 46 percent of Conway housing units are detached single-family houses, about 19 percent mobile homes. With about 390 housing units in Conway, read the figures as rough proportions.
Built from 1940 to 1969, before the state's 1978 insulation rule, about 35 percent of Conway homes often have little insulation. From 1990 to 2009, about 20 percent of Conway homes were built to codes below ENERGY STAR's target; check their eaves, where ENERGY STAR says insulation is often thinnest.
Homes by Year Built
- Before 1940: 7% (±4), about 25 units
- 1940s: under 8%, about 15 units
- 1950s: 25% (±11), about 100 units
- 1960s: 8% (±6), about 30 units
- 1970s: 13% (±9), about 50 units
- 1980s: 24% (±10), about 95 units
- 1990s: 18% (±10), about 70 units
- 2000s: under 5%
- 2010s: under 4%
- 2020 or later: under 4%
Air Sealing and Duct Sealing in Conway
In Murfreesboro, the nearest town to Conway with solid figures, 72 percent of homes heat with electricity.
Air sealing comes first, as the EPA advises: wire and pipe holes, wall tops and soffits.
How Homes Here Are Heated
- Electricity: 70% (±13), about 255 households; Northampton County: 67%
- Piped gas: 3% (±2), about 10 households
- Bottled or tank gas: 18% (±9), about 65 households
- Oil or kerosene: under 12%, about 20 households
Power, Gas and Rebates
Dominion Energy North Carolina serves most of Conway, Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative its edges; your bill says which. For gas, Conway is in the Northampton County franchise of Piedmont Natural Gas, whose mains may not reach every street in Conway. Bottled or tank gas, bought by the delivery, heats about 18 percent of homes in Conway.
Rebate to check in Conway: Home Energy Evaluation (Dominion Energy's contractor network). Before a job in Conway, check its current terms; the Northampton County page lists every program.
Attic Insulation Removal in Conway
In a Conway attic, only wet, moldy or animal-soiled insulation is vacuumed out (ENERGY STAR's test), once the cause is fixed, and after mice that Conway attic is sanitized and deodorized; dry, clean insulation stays.
Also Serving Near Conway
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Murfreesboro, NC
7 miles east
2,242 people, about 3 times Conway's population
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7 miles southwest
58 people, under a tenth of Conway's population
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Conway Insulation FAQs
Are any Conway houses on the national historic register?
None are. The state's register list carries no Conway entry at all. Northampton County's 2010 survey did write up buildings here, among them the railroad depot and the Main Street bungalows. A survey entry is a record for historians and puts no rules on a house. And the 2023 state roster of preservation commissions has no Northampton entry, so no design board reviews attic work in Conway.
Our Conway bungalow is close to a hundred years old. Who looks at the wiring?
An electrician, before we start. Conway was incorporated in 1913, and a bungalow from its first decades may hide the knob-and-tube wiring that ENERGY STAR dates to before 1930. The agency treats those runs as a fire hazard once insulation touches them, so live ones in the attic or behind the knee walls get dealt with first. With the electrician done, we seal the gaps and add insulation.
Could the old insulation in a Conway attic be vermiculite?
It could: about 35 percent of Conway's homes predate 1960. If a Conway attic holds a pebble-like gray-brown or silver-gold fill, leave it undisturbed: the EPA says vermiculite may contain asbestos.
Does attic insulation in Conway need a permit?
Conway Town Hall can say whether Northampton County Building Inspections, the town itself or another office handles permits in Conway; ask before work starts.
Sources
Census Bureau figures for Conway, NOAA normals for the Murfreesboro station, Dominion Energy North Carolina (October 2026). Compiled by Insulation Pros. How the town pages are made.
Sources for the Conway notes and questions (read October 20, 2026):
- Conway, in The North Carolina Gazetteer (William S. Powell, 2nd ed., UNC Press 2010), NCpedia
- Northampton County Comprehensive Historic Architecture Survey, Phase II: Final Report (Cardinal Preservation Services, 2010), listed by the NC HPO as the Northampton County Survey
- Attic Air Sealing Project, ENERGY STAR
- Building Construction Problem Areas, weatherization training text, Iowa Department of Health and Human Services
- NC Listings in the National Register of Historic Places, NC State Historic Preservation Office
- Historic Preservation Commission Staff in North Carolina, listed by county, as of 2/20/2023 (NC HPO)
- Attic Insulation Project, ENERGY STAR
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