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Homes in Council Bluffs
Council Bluffs is a city of houses: of its 27,616 homes, 69% are detached, 2% are townhouses and other attached houses and 25% are apartments or units in buildings of two or more homes.
The biggest building period was 1950 to 1979, which accounts for 35% of homes standing today; 18% are from 2000 or later. The median home dates from 1965. 63% of homes are lived in by their owners.
In nearby Bellevue, 7 miles away, 48% of homes were built before 1980, so Council Bluffs's windows are on the whole older. Nationally, Council Bluffs's homes are older than those in 72% 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
31% 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.
Out-of-square openings
With 66% 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.
Whole-house orders
With 69% 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.
Council Bluffs weather and your shutters
At Omaha Eppley Airfield, NE (6 mi away), July averages a high of 88.1°F and January a low of 15.2°F. Average highs reach 85°F from July to August and average lows sit at or below freezing from November to March.
About 33 days a year reach 90°F, 134 nights fall to freezing and 34.6 inches of precipitation falls, most of it around May and least in January.
Among the Iowa cities we have climate normals for, Council Bluffs has the most hot days.
That's more freezing nights than in 87% of the 881 US cities we have climate normals for.
Daylight runs from 15 h 9 min on the longest day to 9 h 12 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, Omaha Eppley Airfield, NE (temperature) and Council Bluffs 2.1 Sse, IA (precipitation, 2 mi away). Daylight and sun height: calculated from the city’s latitude.
Monthly figures
| Month | Average high | Average low | Precipitation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 33.6°F | 15.2°F | 0.9 in |
| Feb | 38.6°F | 19.3°F | 1 in |
| Mar | 52.1°F | 30°F | 1.9 in |
| Apr | 64.1°F | 41.1°F | 3.5 in |
| May | 74.6°F | 52.7°F | 5 in |
| Jun | 84.4°F | 63.4°F | 4.9 in |
| Jul | 88.1°F | 68°F | 3.7 in |
| Aug | 85.8°F | 65.6°F | 4.4 in |
| Sep | 79.1°F | 56.1°F | 3.6 in |
| Oct | 65.5°F | 43.2°F | 2.7 in |
| Nov | 50.3°F | 30.2°F | 1.5 in |
| Dec | 37.7°F | 19.8°F | 1.5 in |
Cold winters
With 134 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 Council Bluffs
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 Council Bluffs
- Bellevue 7 mi
- Omaha 11 mi
- Lincoln 52 mi
- Sioux City 91 mi
More about shutters in Council Bluffs
Each page takes one question further (fitting your windows, room by room, sizes and colours, louvers, or how shutters compare with other choices), using Council Bluffs’s own figures.
Price your windows
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