Roof Repair in Franklin Park

The permit record for Franklin Park

Roof permits in Franklin Park, year by year

The busiest year on record for Franklin Park was 2015, with 13 permits. When one area jumps and the rest of the city does not, the cause came out of the sky. The lag between the hail and the paperwork usually runs a season.

Recent trend: down 50% — 10 permits in 2023–2025 against 20 in 2020–2022. Fewer permits does not mean sturdier roofs. Usually it means the replacement wave already went through, and the roofs put on then are quietly ageing.

Roughly 25% of the roof work permitted in Franklin Park is on commercial buildings rather than houses — a mixed area, and worth remembering when you compare the total against a purely residential one.

Permits per square mile

Franklin Park covers 2.19 square miles, which works out at 52 roof permits per square mile — 57th densest of the 91 neighbourhoods with a measured area. The city average is 99.

That is close to the Austin average, so nothing about the geography here should move a quote much in either direction.

56th by number of permits, 57th once you divide by area. The two figures tracking each other means the roof work here scales with the neighbourhood rather than concentrating anywhere in particular.

What the work in Franklin Park actually is

• Repair — 63 (56%)
• Remodel — 44 (39%)
• Addition and Remodel — 4 (4%)
• Addition — 2 (2%)

More than a third of it is booked as repair rather than replacement. Repair-heavy neighbourhoods are where quotes vary most wildly, because two roofers looking at the same patch can honestly disagree about whether it needs mending or replacing — and the difference between those two answers is most of the money.

Franklin Park prices, from the filings

54 residential roof permits in Franklin Park carry a declared value. The median is $11,500. Deliberately the median: averages in small areas are hostage to whichever house had the most ambitious owner that year.

Under the $21,890 median for Austin neighbourhoods, and for a straightforward reason: the roofs are smaller and the shapes are easier. Less surface, fewer penetrations, less labour.

Bear in mind what a declared value is: the number written on the application before the old roof came off. It tells you the league a job is in. It does not tell you what the invoice said.

How old are the roofs here

Since 2006 the city has permitted 60 new homes inside Franklin Park. 12 of them — 20% — went up between 2006 and 2010.

That is a modest share, so Franklin Park has no single group of roofs falling due at the same moment. Replacements arrive a house at a time, which usually means less door-knocking after a storm and more room to shop around.

Franklin Park has its own storm year

Austin as a whole peaked in 2024. Franklin Park peaked in 2015 — a different year entirely. That year ran 102% above this neighbourhood’s own average, which is the signature of a hail band rather than ordinary wear.

City-level figures flatten exactly the thing you want to see. Franklin Park peaked in 2015 while Austin peaked in 2024, which means the roofs replaced on these streets are on a clock of their own — 11 years and counting.

For scale: Franklin Park holds 0.8% of every roof permit issued in Austin.

If you own a roof in Franklin Park

Numbers for a neighbourhood cannot tell you what your own roof needs; only somebody standing on it can. What they can do is tell you what normal looks like in Franklin Park, so that an unusual quote looks unusual.

Sources: City of Austin issued building permits, joined to the city’s own neighbourhood boundaries by permit coordinates; Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts, active sales tax permit holders. Both public records, retrieved September 2026.