Roof Repair in Holly

The permit record for Holly

Roof permits in Holly, year by year

The busiest year on record for Holly was 2016, with 59 permits. Peaks like that are the paper shadow of a storm. Roofs do not age in unison; insurance claims arrive in unison.

Holly has gone quiet: 12 permits in 2023–2025 against 28 in 2020–2022, 57% fewer. That is what the far side of a wave looks like — the work happened, and the clock restarted on all of it at once.

Roughly 14% of the roof work permitted in Holly is on commercial buildings rather than houses — a mixed area, and worth remembering when you compare the total against a purely residential one.

Spread out, or packed in?

Holly covers 0.71 square miles, which works out at 351 roof permits per square mile — 2nd densest of the 91 neighbourhoods with a measured area. The city average is 99.

Packed neighbourhoods are cheap to serve and awkward to work. A crew already on the street will quote your roof more keenly than one driving across town — but tight lots mean less room for the dumpster and more chance of a shingle landing in somebody else’s pool.

Holly ranks 14th by total permits and 2nd by density — about as consistent as those two measures get. The volume is proportionate to the size of the place rather than to anything unusual on the roofs.

What the work in Holly actually is

• Repair — 115 (46%)
• Remodel — 69 (28%)
• Addition and Remodel — 33 (13%)
• New — 28 (11%)

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.

What the neighbours declared

159 residential roof permits in Holly carry a declared value. The median is $20,000. Half the jobs came in above that and half below. An average would have been higher and less useful, because a couple of big projects always sit at the top end.

That sits close to the $21,890 median across Austin neighbourhoods, so general city pricing is a fair starting point in Holly.

These are filed figures, not receipts. They are declared at the start, and the classic reason a final bill overshoots is decking that turned out to be soft once the shingles were up.

Holly and the twenty-year clock

Since 2006 the city has permitted 642 new homes inside Holly. 82 of them — 13% — went up between 2006 and 2010.

That is a block of 82 houses roofed in the same few years, which will need reroofing in the same few years. Asphalt shingle in Central Texas gives fifteen to twenty, not the twenty-five on the wrapper, so that cohort is at the end of its first roof now.

Whose weather was it?

Austin as a whole peaked in 2024. Holly peaked in 2016 — a different year entirely. That year ran 354% above this neighbourhood’s own average, which is the signature of a hail band rather than ordinary wear.

The useful number is 2016, not 2024. Whatever came through here did so on its own schedule, and the replacements it forced are now 10 years into a fifteen-to-twenty-year life.

For scale: Holly holds 1.7% of every roof permit issued in Austin.

If you own a roof in Holly

If something on your roof has changed since last year — a ceiling stain, grit collecting in the gutter, a shingle in the yard after a windy night — the cheap moment to deal with it is before the next storm, not after.

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.