Shutter BoysPlantation shutters in Coconut Creek
Homes in Coconut Creek
Apartments outnumber houses in Coconut Creek: 57% of its 27,340 homes are in buildings of two or more units. Detached houses make up 29% and townhouses and other attached houses 10%.
The 1980s and 1990s built 56% of today's homes, more than any other period we count. 21% are older than that and 23% newer. The median home dates from 1989. 65% of homes are lived in by their owners.
In nearby Margate, 3 miles away, 59% of homes were built before 1980, so Coconut Creek's windows are on the whole newer. Nationally, Coconut Creek's homes are newer than those in 84% 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.
Apartments and condos
57% 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.
Rounded drywall corners
79% of homes here were built from 1980 on, and many houses of that era have rounded ("bullnose") drywall corners around the windows instead of square returns. A shutter can't sit flat against a curve: choose an outside mount with a frame that clears the corner, or an inside mount if the flat part of the opening is deep enough for your louvers.
A whole house in Coconut Creek
The most common home in Coconut Creek has two bedrooms: 45% of homes. Three-bedroom homes make up another 30%. The median home has 4.5 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 0.5% of the median home value here, $309,600 (owners’ estimates, 2020–2024).
Homes here are smaller than in 87% 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 windowsYoung children at home
6.8% of people in Coconut Creek are under five, more than in 84% 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.
One room at a time
Homes here cost less than in 66% of the 881 US cities we have figures for, and many owners do a house in stages. Start with the rooms where light and privacy matter most, usually bedrooms and the street-facing front, and keep the same louver size and colour so later rooms match. Your saved design keeps every size.
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.
Coconut Creek weather and your shutters
At Pompano Beach Airpark, FL (5 mi away), August averages a high of 90.7°F and January a low of 60.4°F. Average highs reach 85°F from May to October.
About 59 days a year reach 90°F, 0 nights fall to freezing and 65.2 inches of precipitation falls, most of it around June and least in February.
That's more 90°F days than in 62% of the 881 US cities we have climate normals for.
Daylight runs from 13 h 47 min on the longest day to 10 h 29 min on the shortest, and the midday sun stands 87° above the horizon in June and 40° in December.
Source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020, Pompano Beach Airpark, FL (temperature) and Pompano Beach Highlands 0.7 E, FL (precipitation, 5 mi away). Daylight and sun height: calculated from the city’s latitude.
Monthly figures
| Month | Average high | Average low | Precipitation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 76.3°F | 60.4°F | 2.9 in |
| Feb | 78.1°F | 62.4°F | 2.8 in |
| Mar | 80.2°F | 64.9°F | 3.3 in |
| Apr | 83.6°F | 69.5°F | 3.7 in |
| May | 86.3°F | 73.2°F | 5.7 in |
| Jun | 88.9°F | 76.3°F | 9.7 in |
| Jul | 90.5°F | 77.5°F | 6 in |
| Aug | 90.7°F | 77.7°F | 8.4 in |
| Sep | 89°F | 76.8°F | 8.6 in |
| Oct | 86.2°F | 73.7°F | 6.9 in |
| Nov | 81.3°F | 67.8°F | 3.8 in |
| Dec | 78.3°F | 63.7°F | 3.4 in |
Humid summers
Hot days and 65.2 inches of precipitation make for heavy summer air. Wood swells when it's humid, so give kitchens, bathrooms and laundry rooms some air: run the fan after a shower and tilt the louvers open so steam doesn't sit behind them.
Fitting them in Coconut Creek
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 Coconut Creek
- Margate 3 mi
- Pompano Beach 4 mi
- Deerfield Beach 4 mi
- Coral Springs 5 mi
- Tamarac 7 mi
- Boca Raton 8 mi
More about shutters in Coconut Creek
Each page takes one question further (fitting your windows, room by room, sizes and colours, louvers, or how shutters compare with other choices), using Coconut Creek’s own figures.
For designers, contractors and stores in Coconut Creek
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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.