Propane or oil for central heating?

According to the US Department of Energy , propane is widely used in rural areas. Arlington is not very rural, but has lots of areas where there are no gas lines.

I looked through the MLS records for the past 2 years and do not find a single house in Arlington that was advertised as having propane heating. That doesn’t mean it isn’t there; it means the agent didn’t know how to put the data correctly on the sheet or chose not to make a point about there being propane there. However, ZERO is a telling number. Propane is not a selling feature…yet.

When I look in other towns, I see a smattering of houses advertised with propane heat. They are in Lexington, Concord, Acton, Bedford, Medford… Just none in Arlington. This makes me think it is a custom/data entry problem and that some propane heated houses are posted as “natural gas” in Arlington. But that’s just a guess.

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