Shutter BoysPlantation shutters in Levittown
Homes in Levittown
Levittown is a city of houses: of its 18,326 homes, 87% are detached, 3% are townhouses and other attached houses and 10% are apartments or units in buildings of two or more homes.
The biggest building period was 1950 to 1979, which accounts for 87% of homes standing today; 3% are from 2000 or later. The median home dates from 1956. Owners live in 87% of homes.
Of the 10 Pennsylvania cities we have census figures for, Levittown has the highest share of older homes and the smallest share of apartments. In Trenton, 7 miles away, 40% of homes are apartments, more than here. Nationally, Levittown's homes are older than in any other 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.
Replacement windows
87% 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.
Out-of-square openings
With 91% 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 87% 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 87% 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 Levittown
The most common home in Levittown has four or more bedrooms: 51% of homes. Large houses are common too: 51% have four bedrooms or more. The median home has 6.6 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 1.3% of the median home value here, $341,300 (owners’ estimates, 2020–2024).
Homes here are larger than in 98% 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
51% 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.
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.
Levittown weather and your shutters
At Neshaminy Falls, PA (6 mi away), July averages a high of 85.8°F and January a low of 21.5°F. Average highs reach 85°F in July and average lows sit at or below freezing from December to March.
About 27 days a year reach 90°F, 120 nights fall to freezing and 48.4 inches of precipitation falls, spread fairly evenly through the year.
Among the Pennsylvania cities we have climate normals for, Levittown has the second-most hot days and the second-most freezing days.
That's more freezing nights than in 77% of the 881 US cities we have climate normals for.
Daylight runs from 15 h 2 min on the longest day to 9 h 19 min on the shortest, and the midday sun stands 73° above the horizon in June and 26° in December.
Source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020, Neshaminy Falls, PA (temperature) and Langhorne 3.4 Nne, PA (precipitation, 5 mi away). Daylight and sun height: calculated from the city’s latitude.
Monthly figures
| Month | Average high | Average low | Precipitation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 39.4°F | 21.5°F | 3.5 in |
| Feb | 42.2°F | 22.6°F | 2.9 in |
| Mar | 50.5°F | 29.4°F | 4.1 in |
| Apr | 62.5°F | 39.5°F | 3.5 in |
| May | 72.3°F | 49.5°F | 4.3 in |
| Jun | 81.1°F | 59.8°F | 4.5 in |
| Jul | 85.8°F | 65.2°F | 5.1 in |
| Aug | 84°F | 63.5°F | 4.4 in |
| Sep | 77.4°F | 55.7°F | 4.6 in |
| Oct | 65.6°F | 43.5°F | 3.8 in |
| Nov | 54.6°F | 33.2°F | 3.3 in |
| Dec | 44.4°F | 26.5°F | 4.4 in |
Cold winters
With 120 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.
Wet months
48.4 inches of precipitation a year keeps the air damp for long stretches. Steam and condensation are hard on any joint, so in kitchens, bathrooms and laundry rooms keep the air moving and wipe water off the sill before it sits.
Fitting them in Levittown
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 Levittown
- Trenton 7 mi
- Philadelphia 18 mi
- Camden 20 mi
- New Brunswick 32 mi
- Lakewood 34 mi
- Toms River 37 mi
More about shutters in Levittown
Each page takes one question further (fitting your windows, room by room, sizes and colours, louvers, or how shutters compare with other choices), using Levittown’s own figures.
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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.