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Homes in Parkland County
Parkland County is a city of houses: of its 11,915 occupied homes, 89% are detached, 1% are semi-detached and row houses and 0% are apartments or units in buildings of two or more homes.
The 1980s and 1990s built 32% of today's homes, more than any other period we count. 37% are older than that and 31% newer. Owners live in 92% of homes.
In nearby Spruce Grove, 38 km away, 20% of homes were built in 1980 or earlier, so Parkland County's windows are on the whole older. Nationally, Parkland County's homes are newer than those in 64% of the 167 Canadian cities we have census figures for.
Source: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population. Period of construction and tenure come from the 25% sample; counts are randomly rounded.
Manufactured homes
10% of homes are mobile or manufactured homes, whose windows usually sit in thin walls with little depth inside the opening. An outside mount on a frame is the reliable choice there, fixed into the framing around the window rather than the thin wall panel.
Whole-house orders
With 89% of homes detached, most orders here cover a whole house: bedrooms, a patio door, perhaps a bay. Put every window in one list in the designer so the louver size and colour match from the street.
Bought to stay
Owners live in 92% of homes, and shutters are usually bought to stay with the house. Poplar takes paint well, so they can be repainted years from now if you change a room's colours. Keep your order list: it records every size if you add a room later.
Shallow openings
31% of homes were built in 2001 or later. Newer windows are often set close to the room side of the wall, and handles, cranks and alarm sensors stick out into the space a louver swings through. Measure the depth to the glass and to anything that sticks out; the designer checks it against the louver size you pick.
A whole house in Parkland County
The most common home in Parkland County has four or more bedrooms: 47% of homes. Large houses are common too: 47% have four bedrooms or more. Homes average 7.6 rooms.
Detached houses are the most common kind of home here. Across Canada, the middle home has 6 to 10 windows (NRCan, 2007). Shuttering that many windows at a typical bedroom-window size comes to roughly $2,700 to $5,700 CAD. For scale, that's about 0.8% of the median home value here, $500,000 CAD (owners’ estimates, 2021).
Homes here are larger than in 90% of the 167 Canadian cities we have figures for, so a whole-house order runs to more windows than most.
Sources: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population (bedrooms, rooms and value from the 25% sample; counts randomly rounded); Natural Resources Canada, Survey of Household Energy Use 2007, Table 4.5a (windows). NRCan SHEU 2007, Table 4.5a
A typical home6–10 windows
All of them shuttered$2,700 to $5,700 CAD
Every window priced as a 36 × 48 in opening in our basic build (flat moulding, paint stage 1, 3½ in louvers), before tax and shipping. Your windows will differ; the designer prices each one.
Price your own windowsPricing a whole house at once
47% of homes here have four bedrooms or more. For a house that size, list every window in one go: type or paste the sizes, or upload them as a spreadsheet saved as CSV, and the designer prices each window and the total.
Working from home
21% of workers here worked from home on census day in May 2021, during the pandemic, more than in 59% of the 167 Canadian cities we have figures for. Glare on a screen comes from direct sun and bright sky behind or beside it. Louvers tilted up throw daylight at the ceiling instead, so the room stays bright and the screen stays readable; wider louvers give the clearest view when you open them.
Ages, place of work and value: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population. Rankings compare the Canadian cities we have figures for.
Parkland County weather and your shutters
At Breton (33 km away), July averages a high of 23.1 °C and January a low of −15.2 °C. Average lows sit at or below freezing from October to April.
About 3 days a year top 30 °C, 201 days drop to 0 °C or below and 499 mm of precipitation falls, most of it around July and least in December.
That's more days at or below freezing than in 93% of the 160 Canadian cities we have climate normals for.
Daylight runs from 17 h 2 min on the longest day to 7 h 28 min on the shortest, and the midday sun stands 60° above the horizon in June and 13° in December.
Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020, Breton. Daylight and sun height: calculated from the city’s latitude.
Monthly figures
| Month | Average high | Average low | Precipitation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | −4.3 °C | −15.2 °C | 20.3 mm |
| Feb | −1.3 °C | −12.8 °C | 14.7 mm |
| Mar | 2.4 °C | −9.2 °C | 17.8 mm |
| Apr | 10.3 °C | −2 °C | 29.4 mm |
| May | 16.7 °C | 3.4 °C | 60.3 mm |
| Jun | 20.1 °C | 7.8 °C | 85.5 mm |
| Jul | 23.1 °C | 10.2 °C | 102.1 mm |
| Aug | 22.1 °C | 9.1 °C | 68.9 mm |
| Sep | 17.8 °C | 4.5 °C | 41.9 mm |
| Oct | 10.1 °C | −1.5 °C | 22 mm |
| Nov | 1.4 °C | −8.4 °C | 23.2 mm |
| Dec | −3.6 °C | −14 °C | 12.6 mm |
Deep cold
January nights average −15.2 °C. Closed shutters trap a layer of still air against the glass, which keeps the room warmer, but the glass behind them gets colder too, and frost can form on the inside of older windows. Tilt the louvers open in the morning to let room air reach the glass, and wipe the sill if water collects.
Fitting them in Parkland County
Shutter Boys shutters are made for you to fit yourself: an inside or outside mount takes a drill, a level and our step-by-step guide. If you'd rather hire someone, a finish carpenter or blinds installer can fit them; ask on your quote and we'll tell you if we know one near you. You arrange and pay the installer directly.
Near Parkland County
- Spruce Grove 38 km
- St. Albert 58 km
- Leduc 64 km
- Edmonton 64 km
- Beaumont 70 km
- Sturgeon County 73 km
More about shutters in Parkland County
Each page takes one question further (fitting your windows, room by room, sizes and colours, louvers, or how shutters compare with other choices), using Parkland County’s own figures.
For designers, contractors and stores in Parkland County
Interior designers, contractors, window covering stores, realtors and property managers in Parkland County can sell or refer Shutter Boys shutters: dealers buy at trade pricing with a protected area; referral partners earn a fee on each client they send. No fee to join.
Price your windows
Choose Canada in the designer, enter millimetres or inches, and we reply with your quote in Canadian dollars.