Hemby Bridge, NC
2 miles east
Median home built 1975 (Stallings: 2002); 1,764 people, about a tenth of Stallings' population
Attic insulation in Hemby BridgeAttic Insulation in Stallings, NC
Blown-in attic insulation for Stallings, NC, in Union County, plus removal and air sealing.
About Stallings and Its Homes
Stallings began as a country store and sawmill beside the Seaboard tracks after 1902, grew along US 74 from the 1950s and was incorporated in 1975. Annexations from 2001 on brought in whole subdivisions, and the town now reaches into Mecklenburg County as well as Union.
Stallings, in Union County, grew from 16,192 people in 2020 to 17,760 in 2025 (Census Bureau estimates), on 8.38 square miles. That makes Stallings the fourth-largest town in Union County.
Stallings has about 6,700 housing units; 88 percent of the town's households own their home.
Stallings at a Glance
- County: Union County
- Population: 17,760 (2025), 16,192 (2020), up 9.7%
- Land area: 8.38 square miles (2,119 people each)
- Housing units: about 6,700 (±302)
- Median year built: 2002 (±2); Union County: 2000
- Owner-occupied: 88% (±3); Union County: 82%
- Detached houses: 87% (±2); Union County: 86%
- Attached houses: 8% (±2)
- Apartments: 4% (±3)
- Mobile homes: 1% (±1)
- Climate zone: 3 on both maps
- ENERGY STAR target for Stallings attics: R-49 from bare, R-38 over 3 to 4 inches (R-value guide)
Census Bureau estimates for Stallings, 2020 to 2024 (± margin of error).
Stallings Homes and Their Attics
One-Story Houses From the Highway Years
The town's own history says the four-lane US 74 came through Stallings in the early 1950s. People and houses followed quickly in the 1960s and early 1970s. If your house is a one-story ranch from that stretch, its roof is probably low-pitched. A National Register study of postwar houses defines the simplest ranch by that roof and a long rectangular plan. Out toward the walls, there is barely room to kneel between the roof boards and the ceiling joists. ENERGY STAR warns that this edge zone is where blown insulation can run short. We work it out to the wall line, with a baffle set at each soffit vent so outside air still has a path in.
Subdivisions Added Along Stevens Mill Road
In 2001 the town annexed land along Stevens Mill Road and Lawyers Road, which roughly doubled Stallings in area. In 2006 it took in the Emerald Lake and Shannamara subdivisions. The housing figures on this page bear it out: most homes in Stallings were built in 1970 or later. Where a newer house has several roof sections, each can hide its own attic pocket over a wing, a porch room or a garage. Insulation needs to lie at one depth across all of them, so we climb into every pocket and measure, not only the space reached from the hatch.
Attic Insulation in Stallings
If the joists show above the insulation in a Stallings attic, ENERGY STAR says to add more insulation.
From 1990 to 2009, 63 percent of Stallings homes were built to codes below ENERGY STAR's target; check their eaves, where ENERGY STAR says insulation is often thinnest.
The Local Climate
Stallings' center sits about 750 feet above sea level, 6 miles from NOAA's Monroe Airport station, the best match for Stallings. The station's 1991 to 2020 normals average about 3,060 heating and 1,710 cooling degree days a year, so at Stallings' station, heating needs outweigh cooling.
Homes by Age: What It Means for the Attic
Some 87 percent of Stallings housing units are detached single-family houses.
In 2010 or later, 20 percent of Stallings homes went up; check their air sealing as well as the depth.
About 11 percent of Stallings' housing units predate 1980; nearly all predate the state's 1978 insulation rule too.
Homes by Year Built
- Before 1940: under 1%
- 1940s: under 1%
- 1950s: under 1%, about 35 units
- 1960s: 3% (±1), about 175 units
- 1970s: 8% (±3), about 540 units
- 1980s: 6% (±2), about 380 units
- 1990s: 27% (±4), about 1,810 units
- 2000s: 35% (±4), about 2,400 units
- 2010s: 16% (±3), about 1,050 units
- 2020 or later: 5% (±2), about 310 units
Air Sealing and Duct Sealing in Stallings
In Stallings, 27 percent of homes heat with electricity and 67 percent with piped gas; forced air from either moves through ducts.
Air sealing comes first, as the EPA advises: wire and pipe holes, wall tops and soffits.
How Homes Here Are Heated
- Electricity: 27% (±4), about 1,760 households; Union County: 45%
- Piped gas: 67% (±5), about 4,400 households
- Bottled or tank gas: 3% (±1), about 180 households
- Oil or kerosene: under 4%, about 100 households
Power, Gas and Rebates
Power in and around Stallings comes from Duke Energy Carolinas and Union Power Cooperative; your bill says which. For gas, Stallings is in the Union County franchise of Piedmont Natural Gas, and 67 percent of the town's homes heat with piped gas. Duke's free House Call fits many Stallings homes: 27 percent heat with electricity.
Rebate to check if Duke Energy Carolinas serves your Stallings home: Smart $aver Insulate and Seal (Duke Energy; Insulation Pros is an approved trade ally). Before a job in Stallings, check its current terms; the Union County page lists every program.
Attic Insulation Removal in Stallings
In a Stallings attic, only wet, moldy or animal-soiled insulation is vacuumed out (ENERGY STAR's test), once the cause is fixed, and after mice that Stallings attic is sanitized and deodorized; dry, clean insulation stays.
Also Serving Near Stallings
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Stallings Insulation FAQs
Is my Stallings house listed or protected as historic?
Nothing on record says so. There is no National Register property in Stallings on the state preservation office list. Its 2023 roster of preservation commissions for Union County shows Monroe, Waxhaw and the county, with no Stallings board among them. The town does have a Historical Committee, which gathers local history and oral histories. So no historic designation shapes work in your attic, and the choices are yours.
Can air leak into the attic through a box above our Stallings kitchen cabinets?
It can. Stallings filled in quickly during the 1960s and early 1970s. If your kitchen from those years has a dropped soffit above the cabinets, that box is worth a look from above. When its top was never closed, house air rises straight through it. ENERGY STAR says the fix is made from the attic side: move the insulation off the box, seal over the open top, then spread the insulation back.
Does attic insulation in Stallings need a permit?
Stallings Town Hall can say whether Union County Development Services, the town itself or another office handles permits in Stallings; ask before work starts.
Helpful Guides
- Median home built 2002: a hot upstairs and bonus rooms over garages
Sources
Census Bureau figures for Stallings, NOAA normals for the Monroe Airport station (October 2026). Compiled by Insulation Pros. How the town pages are made.
Sources for the Stallings notes and questions (read October 20, 2026):
- About Stallings, Town of Stallings
- Post-World War II and Modern Architecture in Raleigh, North Carolina, 1945-1965, National Register multiple property documentation form (NC HPO)
- Adding Attic Insulation, ENERGY STAR do-it-yourself guide
- About Attic Ventilation, ENERGY STAR do-it-yourself guide
- Year Structure Built (table B25034), Stallings town, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates, U.S. Census Bureau via Census Reporter
- 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)
- Historical Committee, Town of Stallings
- Sealing Air Leaks in the Attic, ENERGY STAR do-it-yourself guide
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