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Homes in East Los Angeles
East Los Angeles's 32,141 homes are a mix: 56% detached houses, 25% apartments or units in buildings of two or more homes and 18% townhouses and other attached houses.
More homes here were built before 1950 than in any later period we count: 51%. Only 6% date from 2000 or later. The median home dates from 1950. Most homes are rented: owners live in only 34%.
In Monterey Park, 2 miles away, 33% of homes are apartments, more than here. Nationally, East Los Angeles's homes are older than those in 94% 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.
Plaster walls and deep casings
51% of homes date from before 1950, when walls were plaster on lath and windows sat in deep wood casings. Plaster cracks if you drive screws carelessly: drill a pilot hole, use fixings made for plaster, and fix into the casing or the framing behind it. A deep casing is good news for an inside mount; measure its depth before you choose a louver size.
Out-of-square openings
With 84% of homes built before 1980, many openings have had decades to settle. Measure each one's width at the top, middle and bottom, and both diagonals. If the diagonals differ by more than about ¼ inch, add a mounting frame in the designer, or choose an outside mount so the shutter covers the uneven edges.
Renting?
66% of homes are rented. Shutters screw into the window frame or casing, so ask your landlord before you install; taking them down later leaves only screw holes to fill.
Townhouses
18% 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.
East Los Angeles weather and your shutters
At Los Angeles Dwtn Usc Campus, CA (4 mi away), August averages a high of 84°F and December a low of 48.2°F. No month averages a high above 85°F or a low below freezing.
About 25 days a year reach 90°F, 0 nights fall to freezing and 14.2 inches of precipitation falls, most of it around February and least in July.
Daylight runs from 14 h 25 min on the longest day to 9 h 53 min on the shortest, and the midday sun stands 79° above the horizon in June and 33° in December.
Source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020, Los Angeles Dwtn Usc Campus, CA (temperature) and Los Angeles Dwtn Usc Campus, 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°F | 48.9°F | 3.3 in |
| Feb | 68°F | 50°F | 3.6 in |
| Mar | 69.9°F | 52.4°F | 2.2 in |
| Apr | 72.4°F | 54.8°F | 0.7 in |
| May | 73.7°F | 58.1°F | 0.3 in |
| Jun | 77.2°F | 61.4°F | 0.1 in |
| Jul | 82°F | 64.7°F | 0 in |
| Aug | 84°F | 65.4°F | 0 in |
| Sep | 83°F | 64.2°F | 0.1 in |
| Oct | 78.6°F | 59.9°F | 0.6 in |
| Nov | 72.9°F | 53.1°F | 0.8 in |
| Dec | 67.4°F | 48.2°F | 2.5 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.
Fitting them in East Los Angeles
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 East Los Angeles
- Monterey Park 2 mi
- Montebello 4 mi
- Alhambra 4 mi
- Huntington Park 4 mi
- Pico Rivera 6 mi
- Rosemead 6 mi
More about shutters in East Los Angeles
Each page takes one question further (fitting your windows, room by room, sizes and colours, louvers, or how shutters compare with other choices), using East Los Angeles’s own figures.
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