Roof Repair in Montopolis

The permit record for Montopolis

Roof permits in Montopolis, year by year

The busiest year on record for Montopolis was 2011, with 15 permits. Peaks like that are the paper shadow of a storm. Roofs do not age in unison; insurance claims arrive in unison.

Montopolis has gone quiet: 14 permits in 2023–2025 against 22 in 2020–2022, 36% 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 21% of the roof work permitted in Montopolis 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?

Montopolis covers 2.24 square miles, which works out at 67 roof permits per square mile — 50th densest of the 91 neighbourhoods with a measured area. The city average is 99.

Middling density, which means travel and access are unlikely to be arguments in a quote either way.

Montopolis ranks 37th by total permits and 50th 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 Montopolis actually is

• Repair — 79 (53%)
• Remodel — 47 (31%)
• New — 15 (10%)
• Addition — 6 (4%)

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

76 residential roof permits in Montopolis carry a declared value. The median is $9,700. 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 is well under the $21,890 median across Austin neighbourhoods. Lower is not worse: simple single-storey roofs with one ridge and no dormers are genuinely quicker work, and they price accordingly.

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.

Montopolis and the twenty-year clock

Since 2006 the city has permitted 1,249 new homes inside Montopolis. 354 of them — 28% — went up between 2006 and 2010.

That is a block of 354 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. Montopolis peaked in 2011 — a different year entirely. That year ran 76% above this neighbourhood’s own average, which is the signature of a hail band rather than ordinary wear.

A neighbourhood peaking out of step with the city is the clearest evidence there is that the damage was local. Montopolis had its year in 2011; whatever came through then stopped a few streets away.

For scale: Montopolis holds 1.0% of every roof permit issued in Austin.

If you own a roof in Montopolis

Everything above is public record. The point of putting it in one place is that a quote for a roof in Montopolis should now be readable: you know roughly what the neighbours declared and roughly how old the housing is.

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.