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Homes in Mission
Mission is a city of houses: of its 14,100 occupied homes, 65% are detached, 8% are semi-detached and row houses and 27% 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. 42% are older than that and 26% newer. Owners live in 77% of homes.
In Abbotsford, 12 km away, 51% of homes are apartments, more than here. Nationally, Mission's homes are older than those in 50% 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 77% 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 65% 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.
A whole house in Mission
The most common home in Mission has four or more bedrooms: 44% of homes. Large houses are common too: 44% have four bedrooms or more. Homes average 7.1 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 0.5% of the median home value here, $850,000 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.
Young children at home
5.7% of people in Mission are under five, more than in 82% 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.
Older homes, high values
Owners here value their homes higher than in 77% of the 167 Canadian cities we have figures for, and 42% of homes were built in 1980 or earlier. If an older house still has good wood shutters, repair them before you replace them; if not, poplar painted to match the trim suits original casings.
Ages, place of work and value: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population. Rankings compare the Canadian cities we have figures for.
Mission weather and your shutters
At Abbotsford (15 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 14 min on the longest day to 8 h 12 min on the shortest, and the midday sun stands 64° above the horizon in June and 17° 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 Mission
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 Mission
- Abbotsford 12 km
- Maple Ridge 24 km
- Chilliwack 24 km
- Langley Township 28 km
- Langley 28 km
- Port Coquitlam 38 km
More about shutters in Mission
Each page takes one question further (fitting your windows, room by room, sizes and colours, louvers, or how shutters compare with other choices), using Mission’s own figures.
For designers, contractors and stores in Mission
Interior designers, contractors, window covering stores, realtors and property managers in Mission 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.