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Homes in St. Charles
St. Charles's 32,305 homes are a mix: 59% detached houses, 28% apartments or units in buildings of two or more homes and 8% townhouses and other attached houses.
The 1980s and 1990s built 34% of today's homes, more than any other period we count. 38% are older than that and 28% newer. The median home dates from 1986. 68% of homes are lived in by their owners.
In nearby St. Peters, 5 miles away, 25% of homes were built before 1980, so St. Charles's windows are on the whole older. Nationally, St. Charles's homes are newer than those in 66% 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.
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.
Rounded drywall corners
62% 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 St. Charles
The most common home in St. Charles has three bedrooms: 37% of homes. 23% have four bedrooms or more, and 13% have one or none. The median home has 5.5 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, $298,700 (owners’ estimates, 2020–2024).
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
18% of workers here worked from home in the 2020–2024 survey years, more than in 68% 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 69% 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.
St. Charles weather and your shutters
At ST Charles Elm PT, MO (1 mi away), July averages a high of 88°F and January a low of 21.9°F. Average highs reach 85°F from July to August and average lows sit at or below freezing from December to February.
About 34 days a year reach 90°F, 105 nights fall to freezing and 45.8 inches of precipitation falls, spread fairly evenly through the year.
That's more freezing nights than in 69% of the 881 US cities we have climate normals for.
Daylight runs from 14 h 53 min on the longest day to 9 h 27 min on the shortest, and the midday sun stands 75° above the horizon in June and 28° in December.
Source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020, ST Charles Elm PT, MO (temperature) and ST Charles Elm PT, MO (precipitation, 1 mi away). Daylight and sun height: calculated from the city’s latitude.
Monthly figures
| Month | Average high | Average low | Precipitation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 39.5°F | 21.9°F | 2.7 in |
| Feb | 44.7°F | 25.2°F | 2.9 in |
| Mar | 55.2°F | 33.7°F | 3.6 in |
| Apr | 66.8°F | 44°F | 5.1 in |
| May | 76°F | 55.1°F | 5.5 in |
| Jun | 84.1°F | 64.3°F | 4.4 in |
| Jul | 88°F | 68.3°F | 4.2 in |
| Aug | 86.8°F | 65.8°F | 4.1 in |
| Sep | 80.4°F | 57.2°F | 3.1 in |
| Oct | 68.8°F | 45.7°F | 3.5 in |
| Nov | 55.3°F | 35.3°F | 3.7 in |
| Dec | 44.1°F | 26.4°F | 3 in |
Cold winters
With 105 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.
Humid summers
Hot days and 45.8 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 St. Charles
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 St. Charles
- St. Peters 5 mi
- Florissant 10 mi
- O'Fallon 11 mi
- St. Louis 18 mi
- Springfield 83 mi
More about shutters in St. Charles
Each page takes one question further (fitting your windows, room by room, sizes and colours, louvers, or how shutters compare with other choices), using St. Charles’s own figures.
For designers, contractors and stores in St. Charles
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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.