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Homes in Bolingbrook
Bolingbrook is a city of houses: of its 24,498 homes, 72% are detached, 14% are townhouses and other attached houses and 14% are apartments or units in buildings of two or more homes.
The biggest building period was 1950 to 1979, which accounts for 39% of homes standing today; 26% are from 2000 or later. The median home dates from 1989. Owners live in 79% of homes.
Of the 30 Illinois cities we have census figures for, Bolingbrook has the smallest share of apartments. In nearby Naperville, 5 miles away, 26% of homes were built before 1980, so Bolingbrook's windows are on the whole older. Nationally, Bolingbrook's homes are newer than those in 62% 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 72% 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.
Bought to stay
Owners live in 79% of homes, and shutters are usually bought to stay with the house. Poplar takes paint well, so they can be repainted years from now if you change a room's colours. Keep your order list: it records every size if you add a room later.
Replacement windows
39% 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.
A whole house in Bolingbrook
The most common home in Bolingbrook has four or more bedrooms: 42% of homes. Large houses are common too: 42% have four bedrooms or more. The median home has 6.8 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 1.5% of the median home value here, $314,700 (owners’ estimates, 2020–2024).
Homes here are larger than in 91% 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 windowsPricing a whole house at once
42% 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.
Working from home
17% of workers here worked from home in the 2020–2024 survey years, more than in 65% 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.
One room at a time
Homes here cost less than in 65% 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.
Bolingbrook weather and your shutters
At Romeoville Wfo, IL (6 mi away), July averages a high of 84.7°F and January a low of 16.1°F. Average lows sit at or below freezing from November to March.
About 16 days a year reach 90°F, 123 nights fall to freezing and 40 inches of precipitation falls, spread fairly evenly through the year.
That's more freezing nights than in 80% of the 881 US cities we have climate normals for.
Daylight runs from 15 h 12 min on the longest day to 9 h 9 min on the shortest, and the midday sun stands 72° above the horizon in June and 25° in December.
Source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020, Romeoville Wfo, IL (temperature) and Naperville 4.0 Ssw, IL (precipitation, 4 mi away). Daylight and sun height: calculated from the city’s latitude.
Monthly figures
| Month | Average high | Average low | Precipitation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 31.7°F | 16.1°F | 2 in |
| Feb | 36.3°F | 19.7°F | 1.9 in |
| Mar | 48.5°F | 29.7°F | 2.5 in |
| Apr | 61°F | 39.6°F | 3.9 in |
| May | 72.4°F | 50.3°F | 4.6 in |
| Jun | 81.5°F | 60.3°F | 4.6 in |
| Jul | 84.7°F | 64.5°F | 4.2 in |
| Aug | 82.7°F | 63°F | 4.3 in |
| Sep | 76.4°F | 55.4°F | 3.3 in |
| Oct | 63.8°F | 43.5°F | 3.8 in |
| Nov | 48.9°F | 31.9°F | 2.7 in |
| Dec | 36.8°F | 22°F | 2.2 in |
Cold winters
With 123 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.
Fitting them in Bolingbrook
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 Bolingbrook
- Naperville 5 mi
- Downers Grove 9 mi
- Aurora 11 mi
- Wheaton 12 mi
- Joliet 12 mi
- Orland Park 14 mi
More about shutters in Bolingbrook
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Price your windows
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