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Homes in Abbotsford
Apartments outnumber houses in Abbotsford: 51% of its 53,235 occupied homes are in buildings of two or more units. Detached houses make up 37% and semi-detached and row houses 12%.
The 1980s and 1990s built 43% of today's homes, more than any other period we count. 29% are older than that and 28% newer. 69% of homes are lived in by their owners.
In Mission, 12 km away, 27% of homes are apartments, fewer than here. Nationally, Abbotsford's homes are newer than those in 78% 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.
Condos and apartments
51% of homes are in buildings of two or more units. Balcony and patio doors suit bypass or bifold panels rather than hinged ones, which need floor space to swing. Check what your condo corporation allows to show from outside before you order: most rules are about the colour seen through the glass.
A whole house in Abbotsford
The most common home in Abbotsford has four or more bedrooms: 36% of homes. Large houses are common too: 36% have four bedrooms or more. Homes average 6.3 rooms.
Apartments are the most common kind of home here. No Canadian survey counts windows by type of home; in the US, the middle apartment in a building of five or more units has 3 to 5 (EIA, 2020). Shuttering that many windows at a typical bedroom-window size comes to roughly $1,300 to $2,900 CAD. For scale, that's about 0.2% of the median home value here, $850,000 CAD (owners’ estimates, 2021).
Sources: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population (bedrooms, rooms and value from the 25% sample; counts randomly rounded); U.S. Energy Information Administration, Residential Energy Consumption Survey 2020, Table HC2.1 (apartment windows). EIA RECS 2020, Table HC2.1
A typical home3–5 windows
All of them shuttered$1,300 to $2,900 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
36% 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.
Young children at home
5.2% of people in Abbotsford are under five, more than in 65% of the 167 Canadian cities we have figures for. Shutters have no cords or chains at all: the louvers tilt with a rod or by hand, so there's nothing to hang within a child's reach. Canada has limited cord length on corded coverings since May 1, 2021; ours never had any.
Ages, place of work and value: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population. Rankings compare the Canadian cities we have figures for.
Abbotsford weather and your shutters
At Abbotsford (3 km away), August averages a high of 24.8 °C and January a low of 0.6 °C. No month averages a high above 29 °C or a low below freezing.
About 9 days a year top 30 °C, 49 days drop to 0 °C or below and 1,505 mm of precipitation falls, most of it around November and least in July.
Daylight runs from 16 h 13 min on the longest day to 8 h 13 min on the shortest, and the midday sun stands 64° above the horizon in June and 18° in December.
Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020, Abbotsford. Daylight and sun height: calculated from the city’s latitude.
Monthly figures
| Month | Average high | Average low | Precipitation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 6.7 °C | 0.6 °C | 225.6 mm |
| Feb | 8.9 °C | 1.3 °C | 117.1 mm |
| Mar | 11.4 °C | 2.9 °C | 145.5 mm |
| Apr | 14.8 °C | 5.2 °C | 114.4 mm |
| May | 18.8 °C | 8.4 °C | 94 mm |
| Jun | 21 °C | 10.9 °C | 69.6 mm |
| Jul | 24.4 °C | 12.7 °C | 39.2 mm |
| Aug | 24.8 °C | 12.6 °C | 47.1 mm |
| Sep | 21.4 °C | 9.9 °C | 77.6 mm |
| Oct | 15 °C | 6.4 °C | 144.4 mm |
| Nov | 9.5 °C | 2.7 °C | 233.1 mm |
| Dec | 6.3 °C | 0.6 °C | 197.3 mm |
Humid summers
Hot days and 1,505 mm of precipitation make for heavy summer air. Wood swells when it's humid, so give kitchens, bathrooms and laundry rooms some air: run the fan after a shower and tilt the louvers open so steam doesn't sit behind them.
Fitting them in Abbotsford
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 Abbotsford
- Mission 12 km
- Langley 25 km
- Langley Township 25 km
- Maple Ridge 27 km
- Chilliwack 30 km
- White Rock 34 km
More about shutters in Abbotsford
Each page takes one question further (fitting your windows, room by room, sizes and colours, louvers, or how shutters compare with other choices), using Abbotsford’s own figures.
For designers, contractors and stores in Abbotsford
Interior designers, contractors, window covering stores, realtors and property managers in Abbotsford 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.