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Homes in Aliso Viejo
Aliso Viejo has an unusually large share of townhouses and other attached houses: 24% of its 20,507 homes, beside 36% detached houses and 38% apartments.
The 1980s and 1990s built 70% of today's homes, more than any other period we count. 6% are older than that and 24% newer. The median home dates from 1995. 57% of homes are lived in by their owners.
Of the 188 California cities we have census figures for, Aliso Viejo has some of the newest homes. In nearby Laguna Niguel, 4 miles away, 24% of homes were built before 1980, so Aliso Viejo's windows are on the whole newer. Nationally, Aliso Viejo's homes are newer than those in 96% of the 881 US cities we have census figures for.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024. Estimates carry margins of error.
Townhouses
24% of homes share a wall with the next one. Their front windows face the street side by side with the neighbours', so many owners pick a louver size and a white or off-white finish that sit well beside the houses on either side. Bay windows on townhouses usually need a separate panel set for each face.
Rounded drywall corners
94% of homes here were built from 1980 on, and many houses of that era have rounded ("bullnose") drywall corners around the windows instead of square returns. A shutter can't sit flat against a curve: choose an outside mount with a frame that clears the corner, or an inside mount if the flat part of the opening is deep enough for your louvers.
Apartments and condos
38% 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 HOA or building allows to show from outside before you order: most rules are about the colour seen through the glass.
A whole house in Aliso Viejo
The most common home in Aliso Viejo has three bedrooms: 32% of homes. 18% have four bedrooms or more, and 17% have one or none. The median home has 4.9 rooms.
Apartments are the most common kind of home here. Across the US, the middle home among apartments in buildings of five or more units has 3 to 5 windows (EIA, 2020). Shuttering that many windows at a typical bedroom-window size comes to roughly $900 to $2,000. For scale, that's about 0.2% of the median home value here, $917,900 (owners’ estimates, 2020–2024).
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, 2020–2024 (bedrooms B25041, rooms B25018, value B25077); U.S. Energy Information Administration, Residential Energy Consumption Survey 2020, Table HC2.1 (windows). EIA RECS 2020, Table HC2.1
A typical home3–5 windows
All of them shuttered$900 to $2,000
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 windowsWorking from home
26% of workers here worked from home in the 2020–2024 survey years, more than in 89% of the 881 US 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 (B01001), working from home (B08301) and value (B25077): U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year estimates, 2020–2024. Rankings compare the US cities we have figures for.
Aliso Viejo weather and your shutters
At Laguna Beach, CA (4 mi away), August averages a high of 81.2°F and December a low of 43.8°F. No month averages a high above 85°F or a low below freezing.
About 4 days a year reach 90°F, 1 nights fall to freezing and 12.7 inches of precipitation falls, most of it around February and least in August.
Daylight runs from 14 h 23 min on the longest day to 9 h 55 min on the shortest, and the midday sun stands 80° above the horizon in June and 33° in December.
Source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020, Laguna Beach, CA (temperature) and Laguna Beach, CA (precipitation, 4 mi away). Daylight and sun height: calculated from the city’s latitude.
Monthly figures
| Month | Average high | Average low | Precipitation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 68.4°F | 44.2°F | 2.8 in |
| Feb | 67.8°F | 44.8°F | 3.4 in |
| Mar | 69.3°F | 47.9°F | 1.6 in |
| Apr | 72.5°F | 50.1°F | 0.8 in |
| May | 74.5°F | 54.5°F | 0.2 in |
| Jun | 76°F | 57.8°F | 0.1 in |
| Jul | 79.5°F | 60.1°F | 0.1 in |
| Aug | 81.2°F | 61.2°F | 0 in |
| Sep | 81°F | 58.5°F | 0.2 in |
| Oct | 77.2°F | 55.1°F | 0.5 in |
| Nov | 72.2°F | 48.5°F | 1.1 in |
| Dec | 67.3°F | 43.8°F | 1.9 in |
Dry summers, wet winters
Barely any of the year's precipitation falls in June, July and August; most comes in the cool months. Wood takes on moisture in the wet season and gives it back in the dry one, so expect the panels to feel slightly tighter in winter than in summer. Fit them in the season you're in, and leave the hinge screws a quarter turn from tight until they've been through both.
A mild year
Few days here are very hot or very cold, so louvers spend most of the year on everyday work: angling daylight off the TV, giving privacy from the street, and opening wide on a fine morning. That makes louver size more a matter of view than of shade; bigger louvers leave more open glass.
Fitting them in Aliso Viejo
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 Aliso Viejo
- Laguna Niguel 4 mi
- Mission Viejo 4 mi
- Lake Forest 6 mi
- Irvine 7 mi
- Newport Beach 9 mi
- San Clemente 11 mi
More about shutters in Aliso Viejo
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