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Homes in Huntington Park
Apartments outnumber houses in Huntington Park: 52% of its 15,128 homes are in buildings of two or more units. Detached houses make up 37% and townhouses and other attached houses 11%.
More homes here were built before 1950 than in any later period we count: 42%. Only 6% date from 2000 or later. The median home dates from 1957. Most homes are rented: owners live in only 24%.
In Florence-Graham, 2 miles away, 27% of homes are apartments, fewer than here. Nationally, Huntington Park's homes are older than those in 83% 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
42% 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.
Renting?
76% 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.
Out-of-square openings
With 74% 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.
Apartments and condos
52% 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 Huntington Park
The most common home in Huntington Park has two bedrooms: 34% of homes. Small homes are a big part of the mix: 43% have one bedroom or none. The median home has 3.9 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 0.3% of the median home value here, $572,700 (owners’ estimates, 2020–2024).
Homes here are smaller than in any other of the 881 US cities we have figures for: many orders are a few rooms, not a whole house.
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 windowsOlder homes, high values
Owners here value their homes higher than in 75% of the 881 US cities we have figures for, and 74% of homes were built before 1980. 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.
A few windows and a door
43% of homes here have one bedroom or none, so many orders are a bedroom window, a living room window and a balcony door. Sliding doors take bypass or bifold panels; check your building's rules on what shows from outside first.
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.
Huntington Park weather and your shutters
At Los Angeles Dwtn Usc Campus, CA (5 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, 5 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 Huntington Park
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 Huntington Park
- Florence-Graham 2 mi
- South Gate 3 mi
- Lynwood 4 mi
- East Los Angeles 4 mi
- Downey 6 mi
- Compton 6 mi
More about shutters in Huntington Park
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