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Homes in Virginia Beach
Virginia Beach's 191,294 homes are a mix: 55% detached houses, 26% apartments or units in buildings of two or more homes and 19% townhouses and other attached houses.
The 1980s and 1990s built 40% of today's homes, more than any other period we count. 40% are older than that and 20% newer. The median home dates from 1984. 65% of homes are lived in by their owners.
In nearby Norfolk, 16 miles away, 67% of homes were built before 1980, so Virginia Beach's windows are on the whole newer. Nationally, Virginia Beach's homes are newer than those in 64% 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.
Townhouses
19% 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 townhouses usually need a separate panel set for each face.
Replacement windows
37% 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.
Rounded drywall corners
60% 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 Virginia Beach
The most common home in Virginia Beach has three bedrooms: 38% of homes. Large houses are common too: 31% have four bedrooms or more. The median home has 6.1 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 1.2% of the median home value here, $382,500 (owners’ estimates, 2020–2024).
Homes here are larger than in 78% 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
31% 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.
Virginia Beach weather and your shutters
At Oceana Nas, VA (2 mi away), July averages a high of 87.4°F and January a low of 31.6°F. Average highs reach 85°F from July to August and average lows sit at or below freezing in January.
About 32 days a year reach 90°F, 50 nights fall to freezing and 54.6 inches of precipitation falls, spread fairly evenly through the year.
Among the Virginia cities we have climate normals for, Virginia Beach has the most precipitation.
Daylight runs from 14 h 41 min on the longest day to 9 h 38 min on the shortest, and the midday sun stands 77° above the horizon in June and 30° in December.
Source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020, Oceana Nas, VA (temperature) and Virginia Beach 2.4 N, VA (precipitation, 1 mi away). Daylight and sun height: calculated from the city’s latitude.
Monthly figures
| Month | Average high | Average low | Precipitation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 50.3°F | 31.6°F | 3.7 in |
| Feb | 52.6°F | 33.2°F | 3 in |
| Mar | 58.6°F | 38.9°F | 4.3 in |
| Apr | 68.6°F | 47.7°F | 3.5 in |
| May | 75.5°F | 56.3°F | 4.4 in |
| Jun | 83.3°F | 65.5°F | 4.6 in |
| Jul | 87.4°F | 70.3°F | 6.7 in |
| Aug | 85.4°F | 69.1°F | 6.5 in |
| Sep | 79.9°F | 64°F | 6 in |
| Oct | 71.2°F | 52.7°F | 4.8 in |
| Nov | 61.3°F | 41.5°F | 3.5 in |
| Dec | 54°F | 35.4°F | 3.6 in |
Humid summers
Hot days and 54.6 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 Virginia Beach
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 Virginia Beach
- Norfolk 16 mi
- Chesapeake 17 mi
- Portsmouth 19 mi
- Hampton 24 mi
- Suffolk 34 mi
- Newport News 34 mi
More about shutters in Virginia Beach
Each page takes one question further (fitting your windows, room by room, sizes and colours, louvers, or how shutters compare with other choices), using Virginia Beach’s own figures.
For designers, contractors and stores in Virginia Beach
Interior designers, contractors, window covering stores, realtors and property managers in Virginia Beach 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
Pick your look once, add every window, and see each one drawn and priced. Send it to us and we reply with your quote.