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Homes in St. Albert
St. Albert is a city of houses: of its 25,935 occupied homes, 70% are detached, 14% are semi-detached and row houses and 15% are apartments or units in buildings of two or more homes.
The 1980s and 1990s built 33% of today's homes, more than any other period we count. 35% are older than that and 32% newer. Owners live in 83% of homes.
In Edmonton, 14 km away, 33% of homes are apartments, more than here. Nationally, St. Albert's homes are newer than those in 66% 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.
Bought to stay
Owners live in 83% 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.
Whole-house orders
With 70% 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.
Shallow openings
32% 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 St. Albert
The most common home in St. Albert has four or more bedrooms: 44% of homes. Large houses are common too: 44% have four bedrooms or more. Homes average 7.3 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 1% of the median home value here, $424,000 CAD (owners’ estimates, 2021).
Homes here are larger than in 84% 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
44% 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.
One room at a time
Homes here cost less than in 72% of the 167 Canadian cities we have figures for, and many owners do a house in stages. Start with the rooms where light and privacy matter most, usually bedrooms and the street-facing front, and keep the same louver size and colour so later rooms match. Your saved design keeps every size.
Working from home
24% of workers here worked from home on census day in May 2021, during the pandemic, more than in 68% 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.
St. Albert weather and your shutters
At Edmonton (City) (10 km away), July averages a high of 23.5 °C and January a low of −14.7 °C. Average lows sit at or below freezing from October to April.
About 4 days a year top 30 °C, 179 days drop to 0 °C or below and 423 mm of precipitation falls, most of it around July and least in February.
That's more days at or below freezing than in 82% of the 160 Canadian cities we have climate normals for.
Daylight runs from 17 h 4 min on the longest day to 7 h 26 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, Edmonton (City). Daylight and sun height: calculated from the city’s latitude.
Monthly figures
| Month | Average high | Average low | Precipitation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | −5.8 °C | −14.7 °C | 19.6 mm |
| Feb | −3 °C | −12.7 °C | 11.8 mm |
| Mar | 1.7 °C | −7.8 °C | 16.8 mm |
| Apr | 10.4 °C | −0.7 °C | 28.6 mm |
| May | 17.5 °C | 5.6 °C | 44.2 mm |
| Jun | 21 °C | 10.2 °C | 69.9 mm |
| Jul | 23.5 °C | 12.6 °C | 82.7 mm |
| Aug | 22.6 °C | 11.3 °C | 60.7 mm |
| Sep | 17.6 °C | 6.2 °C | 38.5 mm |
| Oct | 10 °C | −0.1 °C | 20.5 mm |
| Nov | 0.6 °C | −7.5 °C | 17.5 mm |
| Dec | −4.7 °C | −13.2 °C | 11.8 mm |
Cold winters
With 179 days at or below freezing a year, warm room air meets cold glass for months. Shutters closed tight overnight hold that air against the window, so condensation can collect on the sill: tilt the louvers open in the morning, and wipe the sill on windows that often run wet.
Fitting them in St. Albert
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 St. Albert
- Edmonton 14 km
- Spruce Grove 21 km
- Sturgeon County 21 km
- Fort Saskatchewan 28 km
- Beaumont 34 km
- Strathcona County 37 km
More about shutters in St. Albert
Each page takes one question further (fitting your windows, room by room, sizes and colours, louvers, or how shutters compare with other choices), using St. Albert’s own figures.
For designers, contractors and stores in St. Albert
Interior designers, contractors, window covering stores, realtors and property managers in St. Albert 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.