Kernersville, NC
6 miles southeast
29,128 people, about 5 times Walkertown's population
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Blown-in attic insulation for Walkertown, NC, 6 miles from Kernersville, plus removal and air sealing.
About Walkertown and Its Homes
Walkertown carries the name of the Walker family, who began buying land there in 1761, and it grew into a tobacco and chair-making village after a rail line arrived in 1888. It was not incorporated as a town until 1984.
Walkertown, in Forsyth County, grew from 5,697 people in 2020 to 6,120 in 2025 (Census Bureau estimates), on 6.7 square miles. That makes Walkertown the fifth-largest town in Forsyth County.
Walkertown has about 2,600 housing units, 1 percent of Forsyth County's; about 74 percent of the town's households own their home.
Walkertown at a Glance
- County: Forsyth County
- Population: 6,120 (2025), 5,697 (2020), up 7.4%
- Land area: 6.7 square miles (913 people each)
- Housing units: about 2,600 (±274)
- Owner-occupied: 74% (±6); Forsyth County: 64%
- Detached houses: 81% (±6); Forsyth County: 67%
- Attached houses: 2% (±2)
- Apartments: 14% (±7)
- Mobile homes: under 5%
- Climate zone: 4 (state code), 3 (2021 map)
- ENERGY STAR target for Walkertown attics: R-49 from bare, R-38 over 3 to 4 inches (R-value guide)
Census Bureau estimates for Walkertown, 2020 to 2024 (± margin of error).
Walkertown Homes and Their Attics
Bungalows South of Harley Drive
By the early 1940s, the 2020 county survey says, Walkertown's densest group of houses lay south of Harley Drive. Modest bungalows and period cottages, most from the 1920s and 1930s, line Willoughby and Winthrop streets and Friendly Road there, on farmland platted in 1923. In those wired before about 1930, the original circuits may run on porcelain knobs and tubes. ENERGY STAR puts it on its list of problems to fix ahead of any insulation, since contact with insulation can turn it into a fire hazard. An electrician looks at any old circuits in the attic before we add insulation, and a run still in use is left uncovered until it has been dealt with.
Brick Ranch Houses on Lakawanna Drive and Bellaire Circle
After the war, owners of large tracts near the town center turned them into house lots. Lakawanna Drive was divided in 1952 and Bellaire Circle platted in 1951. Side-gable and hip-roofed brick Ranch houses of the 1950s and 1960s went up along both, with more on Avalee and Martin streets and Annie Lane in the 1960s. A Ranch roof is low, so the attic pinches down to almost nothing at its edges. Those edges are hard to reach, and ENERGY STAR warns they can hold very little insulation even when the center is deep. A hip roof has eaves on all four sides. Baffles at each soffit hold an air channel open while the insulation is brought out to the walls.
Attic Insulation in Walkertown
About 30 percent of Walkertown's homes predate 1970; if your joists show above the insulation, ENERGY STAR says to add more insulation.
In 2010 or later, about 30 percent of Walkertown homes went up; check their air sealing as well as the depth.
The Local Climate
Walkertown's center sits about 990 feet above sea level, 5 miles from NOAA's Winston-Salem Reynolds Airport station, the best match for Walkertown. The station's 1991 to 2020 normals average about 3,500 heating and 1,510 cooling degree days a year, so at Walkertown's station, heating needs outweigh cooling.
Readings change over short distances around Walkertown: NOAA's Rural Hall station, 10 miles away, averages about 3,960 heating degree days.
Homes by Age: What It Means for the Attic
Some 81 percent of Walkertown housing units are detached single-family houses.
From 1990 to 2009, about 25 percent of Walkertown homes were built to codes below ENERGY STAR's target; check their eaves, where ENERGY STAR says insulation is often thinnest.
About 40 percent of Walkertown's housing units predate 1980; nearly all predate the state's 1978 insulation rule too.
Homes by Year Built
- Before 1940: 8% (±4), about 195 units
- 1940s: 3% (±3), about 85 units
- 1950s: 7% (±4), about 170 units
- 1960s: 11% (±3), about 280 units
- 1970s: 13% (±5), about 320 units
- 1980s: 4% (±2), about 110 units
- 1990s: 10% (±5), about 260 units
- 2000s: 17% (±6), about 440 units
- 2010s: 25% (±9), about 650 units
- 2020 or later: 2% (±2), about 60 units
Air Sealing and Duct Sealing in Walkertown
In Walkertown, about 68 percent of homes heat with electricity; where that heat is forced air, ducts often run through the attic.
Air sealing comes first, as the EPA advises: wire and pipe holes, wall tops and soffits.
How Homes Here Are Heated
- Electricity: 68% (±7), about 1,610 households; Forsyth County: 63%
- Piped gas: 20% (±5), about 480 households
- Bottled or tank gas: 2% (±1), about 35 households
- Oil or kerosene: 8% (±3), about 190 households
Power, Gas and Rebates
Duke Energy Carolinas serves most of Walkertown, EnergyUnited its edges; your bill says which. For gas, Walkertown is in the Forsyth County franchise of Piedmont Natural Gas, and 20 percent of the town's homes heat with piped gas. Duke's free House Call fits many Walkertown homes: about 68 percent heat with electricity. Oil or kerosene, bought by the delivery, heats 8 percent of homes in Walkertown.
Rebate to check in Walkertown: Smart $aver Insulate and Seal (Duke Energy; Insulation Pros is an approved trade ally). Before a job in Walkertown, check its current terms; the Forsyth County page lists every program.
Attic Insulation Removal in Walkertown
In a Walkertown attic, only wet, moldy or animal-soiled insulation is vacuumed out (ENERGY STAR's test), once the cause is fixed, and after mice that Walkertown attic is sanitized and deodorized; dry, clean insulation stays.
Also Serving Near Walkertown
Nearest to Walkertown first.
Winston-Salem, NC
6 miles southwest
257,271 people, about 42 times Walkertown's population
Home insulation in Winston-SalemRural Hall, NC
9 miles northwest
Its NOAA station logs about 460 more heating degree days than Walkertown's
Attic insulation in Rural HallWallburg, NC
9 miles south
Its NOAA station logs about 380 fewer heating degree days than Walkertown's
Attic insulation in WallburgBethania, NC
9 miles west
Center about 170 feet lower than Walkertown's; 367 people, under a tenth of Walkertown's population
Attic insulation in Bethania
Walkertown Insulation FAQs
Is my Walkertown house part of a historic district?
No. Walkertown has no historic district on the state's National Register list. Its one listing is a single house, the two-story Queen Anne home tobacco maker Thomas A. Crews built in 1891, listed in 1993. That house is also the town's only local historic landmark, so changes to its outside go to the county's Historic Resources Commission. The 2020 county survey found that none of the town's mid-century subdivisions merit the Register. For every other house here, the attic work is shaped by the house itself.
The room over our garage in Walkertown is always hot. Where does the attic work start?
With the floor and the walls around that room, not only the attic above it. The county survey describes subdivisions spreading out from the town center in every direction. Where a newer house has a room over the garage, Building America's guide says that floor gets air sealed. Its insulation is pressed up against the subfloor. The short side walls and any attic beside the room need the same sealing and insulation. We can insulate the garage itself as well.
Does attic insulation in Walkertown need a permit?
Walkertown Town Hall can say whether Winston-Salem and Forsyth County Inspections Division, the town itself or another office handles permits in Walkertown; ask before work starts.
Helpful Guides
- Power from Duke Energy Carolinas: high summer electric bills and home energy audits
Sources
Census Bureau figures for Walkertown, NOAA normals for the Winston-Salem Reynolds Airport station, Duke Energy Carolinas (October 2026). Compiled by Insulation Pros. How the town pages are made.
Sources for the Walkertown notes and questions (read October 2026):
- Forsyth County Architectural Survey Update, Phase II: North-Central Forsyth County and the Towns of Bethania, Rural Hall and Walkertown, Fearnbach History Services, November 2020 (NC HPO)
- Attic Insulation Project, ENERGY STAR
- 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
- NC Listings in the National Register of Historic Places, NC State Historic Preservation Office
- Floor Above Garage, Building America Solution Center (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy)
- Attic Air Sealing Project, ENERGY STAR
- Tour of Walkertown's History Through Its Buildings, walking tour brochure, Forsyth County Historic Resources Commission (City of Winston-Salem)
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