Milton, NC
11 miles northeast
176 people, under a tenth of Yanceyville's population
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Blown-in attic insulation for Yanceyville, NC, in Caswell County, plus removal and air sealing.
About Yanceyville and Its Homes
Yanceyville began in 1791 as Caswell Court House, the county seat, and took its present name in 1833. Its historic district around the courthouse square and along Main Street took shape mostly in a building boom of the 1830s and 1840s, largely in brick and in the Greek Revival style.
Yanceyville, in Caswell County, fell from 1,865 people in 2020 to 1,850 in 2025 (Census Bureau estimates), on 6.93 square miles. No town in Caswell County has more people than Yanceyville.
Yanceyville has about 990 housing units, 9 percent of Caswell County's; about 38 percent of the town's households own their home.
Yanceyville at a Glance
- County: Caswell County
- Population: 1,850 (2025), 1,865 (2020), down 0.8%
- Land area: 6.93 square miles (267 people each)
- Housing units: about 990 (±203)
- Median year built: 1973 (±3); Caswell County: 1981
- Owner-occupied: 38% (±9); Caswell County: 75%
- Detached houses: 57% (±8); Caswell County: 73%
- Apartments: 37% (±13)
- Mobile homes: 5% (±4)
- Climate zone: 4 (state code), 3 (2021 map)
- ENERGY STAR target for Yanceyville attics: R-49 from bare, R-38 over 3 to 4 inches (R-value guide)
Census Bureau estimates for Yanceyville, 2020 to 2024 (± margin of error).
Yanceyville Homes and Their Attics
Houses From the Courthouse Town's Boom Years
The district's 1973 nomination calls the two-story brick houses on Main Street the finest homes of the boom, with plainer one-story frame houses lining the narrow streets north of the square. The oldest building it found is a small frame cottage from early in the 1800s, one story with a finished attic. Every one of these houses was built decades before electric light, so whatever wiring runs through the attic was added later, and some may be knob-and-tube. ENERGY STAR calls that kind of wiring a fire hazard once insulation covers it, so it is checked by an electrician before any insulation goes down.
Attic Insulation in Yanceyville
About 40 percent of Yanceyville's homes predate 1970; if your joists show above the insulation, ENERGY STAR says to add more insulation.
The Local Climate
Yanceyville's center sits about 610 feet above sea level, 5 miles from NOAA's Yanceyville 4 SE station, the best match for Yanceyville. The station's 1991 to 2020 normals average about 3,700 heating and 1,510 cooling degree days a year, so at Yanceyville's station, heating needs outweigh cooling.
Homes by Age: What It Means for the Attic
About 57 percent of Yanceyville housing units are detached single-family houses. With about 990 housing units in Yanceyville, read the figures as rough proportions.
Built from 1940 to 1969, before the state's 1978 insulation rule, about 35 percent of Yanceyville homes often have little insulation. From 1990 to 2009, 11 percent of Yanceyville homes were built to codes below ENERGY STAR's target; check their eaves, where ENERGY STAR says insulation is often thinnest.
Renters hold about 62 percent of Yanceyville's occupied homes, so many attic decisions rest with landlords.
Homes by Year Built
- Before 1940: 4% (±3), about 40 units
- 1940s: 21% (±10), about 205 units
- 1950s: 7% (±5), about 70 units
- 1960s: 8% (±4), about 80 units
- 1970s: 38% (±13), about 380 units
- 1980s: 9% (±7), about 90 units
- 1990s: 6% (±4), about 55 units
- 2000s: 5% (±4), about 55 units
- 2010s: under 3%, about 15 units
- 2020 or later: under 1%
Air Sealing and Duct Sealing in Yanceyville
In Roxboro, the nearest town to Yanceyville with solid figures, about 51 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: 12% (±6), about 110 households
- Bottled or tank gas: 12% (±11), about 110 households
- Wood: 2% (±2), about 20 households
Power, Gas and Rebates
Duke Energy supplies Yanceyville's electricity. For gas, Yanceyville is in the Caswell County franchise of Enbridge Gas North Carolina, and about 12 percent of the town's homes heat with piped gas. Bottled or tank gas, bought by the delivery, heats about 12 percent of homes in Yanceyville.
Rebate to check in Yanceyville: Smart $aver Insulate and Seal (Duke Energy; Insulation Pros is an approved trade ally). Before a job in Yanceyville, check its current terms; the Caswell County page lists every program.
Attic Insulation Removal in Yanceyville
In a Yanceyville attic, only wet, moldy or animal-soiled insulation is vacuumed out (ENERGY STAR's test), once the cause is fixed, and after mice that Yanceyville attic is sanitized and deodorized; dry, clean insulation stays.
Also Serving Near Yanceyville
Nearest to Yanceyville first.
Roxboro, NC
20 miles east
Median home built 1967 (Yanceyville: 1973); 8,380 people, about 5 times Yanceyville's population
Attic insulation in RoxboroReidsville, NC
20 miles west
Power from Duke Energy Carolinas (Yanceyville: Duke Energy); Center about 200 feet higher than Yanceyville's
Attic insulation in ReidsvilleOssipee, NC
20 miles southwest
Its NOAA station logs about 430 fewer heating degree days than Yanceyville's; 577 people, about a third of Yanceyville's population
Attic insulation in OssipeeGreen Level, NC
20 miles south
Median home built 1986 (Yanceyville: 1973); 3,409 people to Yanceyville's 1,850
Attic insulation in Green Level
Yanceyville Insulation FAQs
Do the Yanceyville historic district rules cover insulating an attic?
There are no such rules for a house's insides. The courthouse district was placed on the National Register in 1973, and that listing does not bind owners who fund their own changes, according to the State Historic Preservation Office. Nor does any local board review designs here: when the office compiled its 2023 roster, Caswell County had no preservation commission at all. Insulating and air sealing from inside the attic would be indoor work in any case.
How close can insulation come to a brick chimney in an old Yanceyville house?
It should never touch it. Masonry chimneys usually need a 2 inch gap kept clear under the codes ENERGY STAR describes. The district's nomination describes a two-story brick house on West Main Street with interior end chimneys, built inside the gable walls, and a chimney like that climbs up through the attic. An exterior end chimney, which another house there has, stays outside it. Where it passes the ceiling joists, a collar of aluminum flashing is pressed into heat-resistant caulk to close the opening. A ring of sheet metal then holds the loose insulation back from the brick.
Could the old insulation in a Yanceyville attic be vermiculite?
It could: about 30 percent of Yanceyville's homes predate 1960. If a Yanceyville 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 Yanceyville need a permit?
Yanceyville Town Hall can say whether Caswell County Building Inspections, the town itself or another office handles permits in Yanceyville; ask before work starts.
Helpful Guides
- Power from Duke Energy: high summer electric bills and home energy audits
Sources
Census Bureau figures for Yanceyville, NOAA normals for the Yanceyville 4 SE station, Duke Energy (October 2026). Compiled by Insulation Pros. How the town pages are made.
Sources for the Yanceyville notes and questions (read October 20, 2026):
- Yanceyville, in The North Carolina Gazetteer (William S. Powell, 2nd ed., UNC Press 2010), NCpedia
- Yanceyville Historic District, National Register nomination (NC HPO)
- Attic Insulation Project, ENERGY STAR
- 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)
- Furnace Flues Require Special Sealing Techniques, ENERGY STAR do-it-yourself guide
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