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Homes in Whitby
Whitby is a city of houses: of its 46,460 occupied homes, 70% are detached, 16% are semi-detached and row houses and 14% are apartments or units in buildings of two or more homes.
Much of Whitby is new: 39% of homes were built 2001 or later, and only 25% in 1980 or earlier. Owners live in 82% of homes.
In nearby Oshawa, 9 km away, 59% of homes were built in 1980 or earlier, so Whitby's windows are on the whole newer. Nationally, Whitby's homes are newer than those in 86% 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.
Shallow openings
39% of homes were built in 2001 or later. Newer windows are often set close to the room side of the wall, and handles, cranks and alarm sensors stick out into the space a louver swings through. Measure the depth to the glass and to anything that sticks out; the designer checks it against the louver size you pick.
Bought to stay
Owners live in 82% 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.
Whole-house orders
With 70% 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.
Semis and row houses
16% of homes share a wall with the next one. Their front windows face the street side by side with the neighbours', so many owners pick a louver size and a white or off-white finish that sit well beside the houses on either side. Bay windows on semis usually need a separate panel set for each face.
A whole house in Whitby
The most common home in Whitby has four or more bedrooms: 45% of homes. Large houses are common too: 45% have four bedrooms or more. Homes average 7.2 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, $850,000 CAD (owners’ estimates, 2021).
Homes here are larger than in 86% 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 windowsWorking from home
35% of workers here worked from home on census day in May 2021, during the pandemic, more than in 92% 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.
Pricing a whole house at once
45% 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.
Young children at home
5.3% of people in Whitby are under five, more than in 66% of the 167 Canadian 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. Canada has limited cord length on corded coverings since May 1, 2021; ours never had any.
Ages, place of work and value: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population. Rankings compare the Canadian cities we have figures for.
Whitby weather and your shutters
At Oshawa (9 km away), July averages a high of 25.7 °C and January a low of −8.9 °C. Average lows sit at or below freezing from December to March.
About 4 days a year top 30 °C, 130 days drop to 0 °C or below and 906 mm of precipitation falls, spread fairly evenly through the year.
Daylight runs from 15 h 29 min on the longest day to 8 h 54 min on the shortest, and the midday sun stands 70° above the horizon in June and 23° in December.
Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canadian Climate Normals 1991–2020, Oshawa. Daylight and sun height: calculated from the city’s latitude.
Monthly figures
| Month | Average high | Average low | Precipitation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | −1.1 °C | −8.9 °C | 74.7 mm |
| Feb | −0.2 °C | −8.3 °C | 53.5 mm |
| Mar | 4.5 °C | −3.9 °C | 53.9 mm |
| Apr | 10.6 °C | 1.7 °C | 86.9 mm |
| May | 17.5 °C | 7.6 °C | 85.1 mm |
| Jun | 22.7 °C | 12.9 °C | 94 mm |
| Jul | 25.7 °C | 15.8 °C | 85.8 mm |
| Aug | 24.8 °C | 15.4 °C | 74.2 mm |
| Sep | 20.9 °C | 11.4 °C | 86.2 mm |
| Oct | 13.6 °C | 5.3 °C | 71.8 mm |
| Nov | 7.5 °C | 0.3 °C | 72.5 mm |
| Dec | 2.2 °C | −4.6 °C | 67.8 mm |
Cold winters
With 130 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 Whitby
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, ask on your quote: we are building a list of independent installers across the GTA. You arrange and pay the installer directly.
More about shutters in Whitby
Each page takes one question further (fitting your windows, room by room, sizes and colours, louvers, or how shutters compare with other choices), using Whitby’s own figures.
Talk to your rep in Whitby
Call the Shutter Boys GTA line, or book a free design consultation by video or phone: we go through your windows, the style and colour, and how to measure them.
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Price your windows
Choose Canada in the designer, enter millimetres or inches, and we reply with your quote in Canadian dollars.