Oxford, NC
8 miles south
8,985 people, about 27 times Stovall's population
Attic insulation in OxfordAttic Insulation in Stovall, NC
Blown-in attic insulation for Stovall, NC, 8 miles from Oxford, plus removal and air sealing.
About Stovall and Its Homes
Stovall, in northeastern Granville County, was incorporated in 1883 as Sassafras Fork and renamed in 1887 for John Walker Stovall, who gave land for the railroad station. A county survey in 1988 found a few plain Queen Anne houses left from those years.
Stovall, in Granville County, grew from 327 people in 2020 to 333 in 2025 (Census Bureau estimates), on 1.28 square miles.
Stovall has about 135 housing units, 1 percent of Granville County's.
Stovall at a Glance
- County: Granville County
- Population: 333 (2025), 327 (2020), up 1.8%
- Land area: 1.28 square miles (260 people each)
- Housing units: about 135 (±51)
- Detached houses: 80% (±14); Granville County: 71%
- Mobile homes: 13% (±8)
- Climate zone: 4 (state code), 3 (2021 map)
- ENERGY STAR target for Stovall attics: R-49 from bare, R-38 over 3 to 4 inches (R-value guide)
Census Bureau estimates for Stovall, 2020 to 2024 (± margin of error).
Attic Insulation in Stovall
About 50 percent of Stovall's homes predate 1970; if your joists show above the insulation, ENERGY STAR says to add more insulation.
The Local Climate
Stovall's center sits about 470 feet above sea level, 10 miles from NOAA's Oxford Ag station, the best match for Stovall. The station's 1991 to 2020 normals average about 3,570 heating and 1,550 cooling degree days a year, so at Stovall's station, heating needs outweigh cooling.
Readings change over short distances around Stovall: NOAA's Henderson 2 NNW station, 11 miles away, averages about 3,890 heating degree days.
Homes by Age: What It Means for the Attic
With about 135 housing units in Stovall, read the figures as rough proportions.
Built before 1940, about 15 percent of Stovall homes can hide knob-and-tube wiring and vermiculite, jobs for an electrician and an asbestos contractor first. From 1990 to 2009, about 15 percent of Stovall homes were built to codes below ENERGY STAR's target; check their eaves, where ENERGY STAR says insulation is often thinnest.
About 66 percent of Stovall's housing units predate 1980; nearly all predate the state's 1978 insulation rule too.
Homes by Year Built
- Before 1940: 16% (±11), about 20 units
- 1940s: under 4%
- 1950s: under 12%
- 1960s: 26% (±13), about 35 units
- 1970s: 17% (±11), about 25 units
- 1980s: 14% (±11), about 20 units
- 1990s: 8% (±7), about 10 units
- 2000s: under 17%, about 10 units
- 2010s: under 13%
- 2020 or later: under 11%
Air Sealing and Duct Sealing in Stovall
In Oxford, the nearest town to Stovall with solid figures, about 57 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
- Piped gas: 13% (±10), about 15 households
- Oil or kerosene: under 5%
- Wood: under 11%
Power, Gas and Rebates
Duke Energy serves most of Stovall, Wake Electric and Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative its edges; your bill says which. For gas, Stovall is in the Granville County franchise of Enbridge Gas North Carolina, and about 13 percent of the town's homes heat with piped gas.
Rebate to check in Stovall: Smart $aver Insulate and Seal (Duke Energy; Insulation Pros is an approved trade ally). Before a job in Stovall, check its current terms; the Granville County page lists every program.
Attic Insulation Removal in Stovall
In a Stovall attic, only wet, moldy or animal-soiled insulation is vacuumed out (ENERGY STAR's test), once the cause is fixed, and after mice that Stovall attic is sanitized and deodorized; dry, clean insulation stays.
Also Serving Near Stovall
Nearest to Stovall first.
Henderson, NC
12 miles southeast
Power from Duke Energy Progress (Stovall: Duke Energy); Its NOAA station logs about 320 more heating degree days than Stovall's
Attic insulation in HendersonMiddleburg, NC
14 miles east
98 people, about a third of Stovall's population
Attic insulation in MiddleburgKittrell, NC
17 miles southeast
127 people, about a third of Stovall's population
Attic insulation in KittrellStem, NC
19 miles southwest
1,023 people, about 3 times Stovall's population
Attic insulation in Stem
Stovall Insulation FAQs
Are the old farms around Stovall part of a historic district?
No district covers them. Four farms and houses nearby, Hill Airy and Abrams Plains among them, are listed one by one on the National Register as being in the vicinity, outside the town limits. Even for those, the state notes that a listing puts no duty on owners paying their own way. Granville County's one local commission serves Oxford, so attic work in town goes through no historic review.
Before insulating an old Stovall house, what needs a look first?
Start with the roof and the wiring. Damp insulation is a sign of a roof leak, ENERGY STAR says, and the roof is fixed before anything new goes in. Any knob-and-tube circuits, the wiring of houses wired before 1930, go to an electrician, since they can be a fire hazard when buried. And the state's insulation rule reaches only houses begun from 1978 on, so we measure what a house from the railroad decades actually has.
Could the old insulation in a Stovall attic be vermiculite?
It could: about 25 percent of Stovall's homes predate 1960. If a Stovall 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 Stovall need a permit?
Stovall Town Hall can say whether Granville County Building Permits, the town itself or another office handles permits in Stovall; ask before work starts.
Helpful Guides
- Power from Duke Energy: high summer electric bills and home energy audits
Sources
Census Bureau figures for Stovall, NOAA normals for the Oxford Ag station, Duke Energy (October 2026). Compiled by Insulation Pros. How the town pages are made.
Sources for the Stovall introduction and questions (read October 20, 2026):
- Stovall, in The North Carolina Gazetteer (William S. Powell, 2nd ed., UNC Press 2010), NCpedia
- John W. Stovall Farm, National Register nomination (NC HPO)
- Historic and Architectural Resources of Granville County, North Carolina, National Register multiple property documentation form, 1988 (NC HPO)
- NC Listings in the National Register of Historic Places, NC State Historic Preservation Office
- What Is 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
- N.C. Gen. Stat. 143-139.2, Enforcement of insulation requirements; certificate for occupancy
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