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Homes in Kennewick
Kennewick's 33,254 homes are a mix: 59% detached houses, 32% apartments or units in buildings of two or more homes and 3% townhouses and other attached houses.
The biggest building period was 1950 to 1979, which accounts for 45% of homes standing today; 27% are from 2000 or later. The median home dates from 1979. 61% of homes are lived in by their owners.
In nearby Pasco, 6 miles away, 34% of homes were built before 1980, so Kennewick's windows are on the whole older. Nationally, Kennewick's homes are older than those in 53% 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
45% 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.
Manufactured homes
6% of homes are mobile or manufactured homes, whose windows usually sit in thin walls with little depth inside the opening. An outside mount on a frame is the reliable choice there, fixed into the framing around the window rather than the thin wall panel.
Out-of-square openings
With 51% 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.
A whole house in Kennewick
The most common home in Kennewick has three bedrooms: 39% of homes. 22% have four bedrooms or more, and 16% have one or none. The median home has 5.5 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, $370,700 (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
7.2% of people in Kennewick are under five, more than in 91% 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.
Kennewick weather and your shutters
At Kennewick, WA (4 mi away), July averages a high of 91.3°F and January a low of 29.2°F. Average highs reach 85°F from July to August and average lows sit at or below freezing from December to February.
About 48 days a year reach 90°F, 76 nights fall to freezing and 9 inches of precipitation falls, most of it around December and least in August.
Among the Washington cities we have climate normals for, Kennewick has the second-most hot days.
That's more 90°F days than in 55% of the 881 US cities we have climate normals for.
Daylight runs from 15 h 47 min on the longest day to 8 h 37 min on the shortest, and the midday sun stands 67° above the horizon in June and 20° in December.
Source: NOAA U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020, Kennewick, WA (temperature) and Kennewick 0.4 Nne, WA (precipitation, 1 mi away). Daylight and sun height: calculated from the city’s latitude.
Monthly figures
| Month | Average high | Average low | Precipitation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 41.7°F | 29.2°F | 1.2 in |
| Feb | 48.1°F | 30.9°F | 0.9 in |
| Mar | 58.1°F | 35.9°F | 0.7 in |
| Apr | 66.3°F | 42.4°F | 0.8 in |
| May | 75.3°F | 50.1°F | 0.9 in |
| Jun | 82°F | 56.4°F | 0.7 in |
| Jul | 91.3°F | 62.3°F | 0.3 in |
| Aug | 90.3°F | 61.3°F | 0.2 in |
| Sep | 80.5°F | 53.2°F | 0.3 in |
| Oct | 65.9°F | 43.1°F | 0.7 in |
| Nov | 50.9°F | 34.9°F | 1 in |
| Dec | 41.5°F | 29.6°F | 1.3 in |
Fitting them in Kennewick
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.
More about shutters in Kennewick
Each page takes one question further (fitting your windows, room by room, sizes and colours, louvers, or how shutters compare with other choices), using Kennewick’s own figures.
For designers, contractors and stores in Kennewick
Interior designers, contractors, window covering stores, realtors and property managers in Kennewick 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.