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Homes in Pleasanton
Pleasanton is a city of houses: of its 28,975 homes, 61% are detached, 11% are townhouses and other attached houses and 26% are apartments or units in buildings of two or more homes.
The 1980s and 1990s built 41% of today's homes, more than any other period we count. 40% are older than that and 19% newer. The median home dates from 1984. 67% of homes are lived in by their owners.
In nearby Dublin, 4 miles away, 19% of homes were built before 1980, so Pleasanton's windows are on the whole older. Nationally, Pleasanton's homes are newer than those in 63% 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.
Replacement windows
38% of homes went up between 1950 and 1979, and most of them have had their original windows replaced since. A replacement window often sits further into or out of the wall than the old one, so the depth you have for an inside mount may differ from window to window in the same house. Measure every opening rather than copying one.
Whole-house orders
With 61% 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.
A whole house in Pleasanton
The most common home in Pleasanton has four or more bedrooms: 39% of homes. Large houses are common too: 39% have four bedrooms or more. The median home has 5.9 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 0.3% of the median home value here, $1,537,100 (owners’ estimates, 2020–2024).
Homes here are larger than in 89% 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 windowsWorking from home
29% of workers here worked from home in the 2020–2024 survey years, more than in 93% 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.
Pricing a whole house at once
39% 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.
Older homes, high values
Owners here value their homes higher than in any other of the 881 US cities we have figures for, and 40% 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.
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.
Pleasanton weather and your shutters
At Livermore, CA (4 mi away), July averages a high of 89°F and December a low of 38.8°F. Average highs reach 85°F from July to September.
About 57 days a year reach 90°F, 13 nights fall to freezing and 19.6 inches of precipitation falls, most of it around February and least in July.
That's more 90°F days than in 60% of the 881 US cities we have climate normals for.
Daylight runs from 14 h 46 min on the longest day to 9 h 33 min on the shortest, and the midday sun stands 76° above the horizon in June and 29° in December.
Source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020, Livermore, CA (temperature) and Pleasanton 0.4 Ese, CA (precipitation, 1 mi away). Daylight and sun height: calculated from the city’s latitude.
Monthly figures
| Month | Average high | Average low | Precipitation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 56.8°F | 39°F | 3.6 in |
| Feb | 61°F | 41°F | 4.1 in |
| Mar | 65.8°F | 43.3°F | 2.7 in |
| Apr | 70.6°F | 45.7°F | 1.5 in |
| May | 76.6°F | 50°F | 0.7 in |
| Jun | 83.9°F | 53.8°F | 0.2 in |
| Jul | 89°F | 56.6°F | 0 in |
| Aug | 88.6°F | 56.6°F | 0.1 in |
| Sep | 85.9°F | 54.7°F | 0.1 in |
| Oct | 77.2°F | 49.7°F | 0.8 in |
| Nov | 64.9°F | 42.8°F | 2.1 in |
| Dec | 56.9°F | 38.8°F | 3.7 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 Pleasanton
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 Pleasanton
- Dublin 4 mi
- Livermore 7 mi
- San Ramon 7 mi
- Union City 9 mi
- Castro Valley 11 mi
- Fremont 12 mi
More about shutters in Pleasanton
Each page takes one question further (fitting your windows, room by room, sizes and colours, louvers, or how shutters compare with other choices), using Pleasanton’s own figures.
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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.