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Homes in Highland
Highland is a city of houses: of its 16,795 homes, 75% are detached, 2% are townhouses and other attached houses and 17% are apartments or units in buildings of two or more homes.
The 1980s and 1990s built 40% of today's homes, more than any other period we count. 44% are older than that and 17% newer. The median home dates from 1983. 64% of homes are lived in by their owners.
In nearby Redlands, 4 miles away, 58% of homes were built before 1980, so Highland's windows are on the whole newer. Nationally, Highland's homes are newer than those in 57% 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.
Whole-house orders
With 75% 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, and if you have an HOA, send it the drawings before you order.
Manufactured homes
6% of homes are mobile or manufactured homes, whose windows usually sit in thin walls with little depth inside the opening. An outside mount on a frame is the reliable choice there, fixed into the framing around the window rather than the thin wall panel.
A whole house in Highland
The most common home in Highland has three bedrooms: 34% of homes. Large houses are common too: 32% have four bedrooms or more. The median home has 5.4 rooms.
Detached houses are the most common kind of home here. Across the US, the middle home among detached houses has 10 to 15 windows (EIA, 2020). Shuttering that many windows at a typical bedroom-window size comes to roughly $3,200 to $6,000. For scale, that's about 0.9% of the median home value here, $485,600 (owners’ estimates, 2020–2024).
Homes here are larger than in 79% of the 881 US cities we have figures for, so a whole-house order runs to more windows than most.
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 home10–15 windows
All of them shuttered$3,200 to $6,000
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 windowsYoung children at home
7.1% of people in Highland are under five, more than in 90% of the 881 US 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. US rules for cords on custom blinds and shades are still being rewritten; ours never had any.
Pricing a whole house at once
32% 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.
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.
Highland weather and your shutters
At Redlands, CA (6 mi away), August averages a high of 96.2°F and December a low of 40.1°F. Average highs reach 85°F from June to September.
About 104 days a year reach 90°F, 3 nights fall to freezing and 12.9 inches of precipitation falls, most of it around February and least in June.
That's more 90°F days than in 84% of the 881 US cities we have climate normals for.
Daylight runs from 14 h 26 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 32° in December.
Source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020, Redlands, CA (temperature) and Redlands, CA (precipitation, 6 mi away). Daylight and sun height: calculated from the city’s latitude.
Monthly figures
| Month | Average high | Average low | Precipitation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 66.6°F | 41.1°F | 2.8 in |
| Feb | 67.4°F | 42.3°F | 3 in |
| Mar | 70.9°F | 44.6°F | 2 in |
| Apr | 75.6°F | 47.7°F | 0.9 in |
| May | 80.3°F | 52.4°F | 0.4 in |
| Jun | 88.5°F | 56.4°F | 0.1 in |
| Jul | 95.4°F | 62.5°F | 0.1 in |
| Aug | 96.2°F | 62.9°F | 0.1 in |
| Sep | 92.3°F | 59.6°F | 0.1 in |
| Oct | 82.9°F | 52.9°F | 0.5 in |
| Nov | 75°F | 45.3°F | 0.9 in |
| Dec | 66.5°F | 40.1°F | 2 in |
Summer sun
On the 104 days a year above 90°F, closed louvers keep direct sun off the glass and out of the room. In a window that takes afternoon sun, white and light paint finishes stay cooler to the touch than dark stains.
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.
Dry air
Only 12.9 inches of precipitation a year, and days and nights about 29°F apart. Dry air pulls moisture out of wood, so poplar louvers can shrink very slightly through their first dry season; that's normal for real wood.
Fitting them in Highland
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 Highland
- Redlands 4 mi
- San Bernardino 7 mi
- Yucaipa 9 mi
- Colton 11 mi
- Rialto 13 mi
- Moreno Valley 13 mi
More about shutters in Highland
Each page takes one question further (fitting your windows, room by room, sizes and colours, louvers, or how shutters compare with other choices), using Highland’s own figures.
For designers, contractors and stores in Highland
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Price your windows
Pick your look once, add every window, and see each one drawn and priced. Send it to us and we reply with your quote.