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Homes in Midland
Midland is a city of houses: of its 57,260 homes, 64% are detached, 4% are townhouses and other attached houses and 29% are apartments or units in buildings of two or more homes.
Much of Midland is new: 39% of homes were built 2000 or later, and only 36% before 1980. The median home dates from 1989. 65% of homes are lived in by their owners.
In nearby Odessa, 17 miles away, 51% of homes were built before 1980, so Midland's windows are on the whole newer. Nationally, Midland's homes are newer than those in 69% 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.
Shallow openings
39% of homes were built in 2000 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.
Whole-house orders
With 64% 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.
Rounded drywall corners
64% 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 Midland
The most common home in Midland has three bedrooms: 39% of homes. 23% have four bedrooms or more, and 17% have one or none. The median home has 5.3 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 1.4% of the median home value here, $319,200 (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 windowsYoung children at home
8.9% of people in Midland are under five, more than in any other of the 881 US 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. US rules for cords on custom blinds and shades are still being rewritten; ours never had any.
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.
Midland weather and your shutters
At Midland 4 Ene, TX (5 mi away), July averages a high of 95.3°F and January a low of 31°F. Average highs reach 85°F from May to September and average lows sit at or below freezing in January.
About 126 days a year reach 90°F, 54 nights fall to freezing and 16.6 inches of precipitation falls, most of it around June and least in February.
That's more 90°F days than in 95% of the 881 US cities we have climate normals for.
Daylight runs from 14 h 15 min on the longest day to 10 h 3 min on the shortest, and the midday sun stands 81° above the horizon in June and 35° in December.
Source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020, Midland 4 Ene, TX (temperature) and Midland 3.0 Wsw, TX (precipitation, 2 mi away). Daylight and sun height: calculated from the city’s latitude.
Monthly figures
| Month | Average high | Average low | Precipitation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 60.3°F | 31°F | 0.8 in |
| Feb | 65.3°F | 34.9°F | 0.7 in |
| Mar | 73.6°F | 42.3°F | 0.8 in |
| Apr | 82.2°F | 49.7°F | 0.9 in |
| May | 89.1°F | 59.7°F | 1.7 in |
| Jun | 94.7°F | 67.4°F | 2.5 in |
| Jul | 95.3°F | 69.7°F | 1.8 in |
| Aug | 94.4°F | 68.7°F | 1.7 in |
| Sep | 88.1°F | 61.8°F | 2.5 in |
| Oct | 80.6°F | 51.5°F | 1.5 in |
| Nov | 68°F | 39.8°F | 1 in |
| Dec | 60.5°F | 32.2°F | 0.7 in |
Months of hard sun
With 126 days a year above 90°F, sun on the window is the main thing shutters do here. Closed louvers stop direct sun before it reaches the room; angled up, they still let light bounce off the ceiling. On south and west windows, white and light finishes stay cooler and show fading less than dark stains; keep stains for windows out of the afternoon sun.
Fitting them in Midland
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 Midland
- Odessa 17 mi
More about shutters in Midland
Each page takes one question further (fitting your windows, room by room, sizes and colours, louvers, or how shutters compare with other choices), using Midland’s own figures.
For designers, contractors and stores in Midland
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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.