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Homes in Oro-Medonte
Oro-Medonte is a city of houses: of its 8,635 occupied homes, 97% are detached, 1% are semi-detached and row houses and 2% are apartments or units in buildings of two or more homes.
The 1980s and 1990s built 30% of today's homes, more than any other period we count. 44% are older than that and 26% newer. Owners live in 94% of homes.
In Orillia, 15 km away, 32% of homes are apartments, more than here. Nationally, Oro-Medonte's homes are older than those in 54% of the 167 Canadian cities we have census figures for.
Source: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population. Period of construction and tenure come from the 25% sample; counts are randomly rounded.
Whole-house orders
With 97% 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.
Bought to stay
Owners live in 94% 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.
A whole house in Oro-Medonte
The most common home in Oro-Medonte has three bedrooms: 45% of homes. Large houses are common too: 39% have four bedrooms or more. Homes average 7.7 rooms.
Detached houses are the most common kind of home here. Across Canada, the middle home has 6 to 10 windows (NRCan, 2007). Shuttering that many windows at a typical bedroom-window size comes to roughly $2,700 to $5,700 CAD. For scale, that's about 0.5% of the median home value here, $800,000 CAD (owners’ estimates, 2021).
Homes here are larger than in 78% of the 167 Canadian cities we have figures for, so a whole-house order runs to more windows than most.
Sources: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population (bedrooms, rooms and value from the 25% sample; counts randomly rounded); Natural Resources Canada, Survey of Household Energy Use 2007, Table 4.5a (windows). NRCan SHEU 2007, Table 4.5a
A typical home6–10 windows
All of them shuttered$2,700 to $5,700 CAD
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
39% 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
25% of workers here worked from home on census day in May 2021, during the pandemic, more than in 70% of the 167 Canadian 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.
Older homes, high values
Owners here value their homes higher than in 75% of the 167 Canadian cities we have figures for, and 44% of homes were built in 1980 or earlier. If an older house still has good wood shutters, repair them before you replace them; if not, poplar painted to match the trim suits original casings.
Ages, place of work and value: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population. Rankings compare the Canadian cities we have figures for.
Oro-Medonte weather and your shutters
At Egbert (41 km away), July averages a high of 26 °C and January a low of −11.3 °C. Average lows sit at or below freezing from November to March.
About 9 days a year top 30 °C, 155 days drop to 0 °C or below and 793 mm of precipitation falls, spread fairly evenly through the year.
That's more days at or below freezing than in 57% of the 160 Canadian cities we have climate normals for.
Daylight runs from 15 h 34 min on the longest day to 8 h 49 min on the shortest, and the midday sun stands 69° above the horizon in June and 22° in December.
Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020, Egbert. Daylight and sun height: calculated from the city’s latitude.
Monthly figures
| Month | Average high | Average low | Precipitation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | −2.9 °C | −11.3 °C | 54.7 mm |
| Feb | −2 °C | −10.8 °C | 44.7 mm |
| Mar | 3.2 °C | −5.9 °C | 47.9 mm |
| Apr | 10.9 °C | 0.3 °C | 61.6 mm |
| May | 18.4 °C | 6.2 °C | 73.9 mm |
| Jun | 23.4 °C | 11.5 °C | 83 mm |
| Jul | 26 °C | 14.2 °C | 77.9 mm |
| Aug | 25 °C | 13.3 °C | 82.6 mm |
| Sep | 21.1 °C | 9.5 °C | 72.3 mm |
| Oct | 13.6 °C | 4.1 °C | 65.4 mm |
| Nov | 6.4 °C | −1.1 °C | 71.8 mm |
| Dec | 0.3 °C | −6.6 °C | 57.6 mm |
Cold winters
With 155 days at or below freezing 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 Oro-Medonte
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 Oro-Medonte
- Orillia 15 km
- Springwater 22 km
- Barrie 24 km
- Innisfil 34 km
- Wasaga Beach 34 km
- Essa 38 km
More about shutters in Oro-Medonte
Each page takes one question further (fitting your windows, room by room, sizes and colours, louvers, or how shutters compare with other choices), using Oro-Medonte’s own figures.
For designers, contractors and stores in Oro-Medonte
Interior designers, contractors, window covering stores, realtors and property managers in Oro-Medonte can sell or refer Shutter Boys shutters: dealers buy at trade pricing with a protected area; referral partners earn a fee on each client they send. No fee to join.
Price your windows
Choose Canada in the designer, enter millimetres or inches, and we reply with your quote in Canadian dollars.