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Homes in Greeley
Greeley's 41,784 homes are a mix: 57% detached houses, 31% apartments or units in buildings of two or more homes and 6% townhouses and other attached houses.
The biggest building period was 1950 to 1979, which accounts for 36% of homes standing today; 32% are from 2000 or later. The median home dates from 1985. 61% of homes are lived in by their owners.
In nearby Loveland, 16 miles away, 34% of homes were built before 1980, so Greeley's windows are on the whole older. Nationally, Greeley's homes are newer than those in 54% 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.
Shallow openings
32% of homes were built in 2000 or later. Newer windows are often set close to the room side of the wall, and handles, cranks and alarm sensors stick out into the space a louver swings through. Measure the depth to the glass and to anything that sticks out; the designer checks it against the louver size you pick.
Manufactured homes
5% 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.
Replacement windows
36% 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.
Out-of-square openings
With 46% 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.
A whole house in Greeley
The most common home in Greeley has four or more bedrooms: 31% of homes. Large houses are common too: 31% have four bedrooms or more. The median home has 5.7 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 1.1% of the median home value here, $402,500 (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
7.2% of people in Greeley are under five, more than in 92% 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
31% 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.
Greeley weather and your shutters
At Greeley Unc, CO (4 mi away), July averages a high of 91.7°F and January a low of 17.5°F. Average highs reach 85°F from June to August and average lows sit at or below freezing from November to March.
About 58 days a year reach 90°F, 153 nights fall to freezing and 14.4 inches of precipitation falls, most of it around May and least in January.
That's more 90°F days than in 61% of the 881 US cities we have climate normals for.
Daylight runs from 15 h 4 min on the longest day to 9 h 17 min on the shortest, and the midday sun stands 73° above the horizon in June and 26° in December.
Source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020, Greeley Unc, CO (temperature) and Greeley 4.4 W, CO (precipitation, 1 mi away). Daylight and sun height: calculated from the city’s latitude.
Monthly figures
| Month | Average high | Average low | Precipitation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 44.1°F | 17.5°F | 0.3 in |
| Feb | 47.7°F | 20°F | 0.4 in |
| Mar | 59.1°F | 28.1°F | 0.8 in |
| Apr | 66°F | 35.3°F | 1.5 in |
| May | 74.7°F | 44.5°F | 2.9 in |
| Jun | 85.8°F | 53.6°F | 2.1 in |
| Jul | 91.7°F | 59.3°F | 1.5 in |
| Aug | 89.2°F | 57.3°F | 1.6 in |
| Sep | 81.9°F | 48.7°F | 1.3 in |
| Oct | 67.8°F | 36.6°F | 1.1 in |
| Nov | 53.6°F | 25.8°F | 0.5 in |
| Dec | 43.4°F | 17.8°F | 0.4 in |
Cold winters
With 153 freezing nights a year, warm room air meets cold glass for months. Shutters closed tight overnight hold that air against the window, so condensation can collect on the sill: tilt the louvers open in the morning, and wipe the sill on windows that often run wet.
Dry air
Only 14.4 inches of precipitation a year, and days and nights about 30°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 Greeley
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 Greeley
- Loveland 16 mi
- Fort Collins 18 mi
- Longmont 24 mi
- Broomfield 35 mi
- Thornton 35 mi
- Commerce City 37 mi
More about shutters in Greeley
Each page takes one question further (fitting your windows, room by room, sizes and colours, louvers, or how shutters compare with other choices), using Greeley’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.