Roof Repair in North Burnet

The permit record for North Burnet

Roof permits in North Burnet, year by year

The busiest year on record for North Burnet was 2013, with 28 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: up 160% — 26 permits in 2023–2025 against 10 in 2020–2022. In a single neighbourhood a rise that steep is rarely gradual ageing. Something concentrated it: weather, or a run of houses reaching the same birthday.

North Burnet is not mainly houses, at least not in the permit record: 100% of its roof permits are on commercial buildings. That inflates the totals relative to a purely residential neighbourhood and makes the money figures harder to compare.

It also skews what you will hear locally. If the busiest roofers in this area are working on commercial buildings, their references, their pricing and their scheduling are all built around that world. For a house, look for somebody whose ordinary week is houses.

Permits per square mile

North Burnet covers 3.24 square miles, which works out at 44 roof permits per square mile — 61st densest of the 91 neighbourhoods with a measured area. The city average is 99.

Spread this thin, travel time starts to matter. Some crews put it in the quote and some absorb it, and the only way to know which is to ask. It is also why an inspection here may be slower to arrange than one closer in.

Both rankings agree here: 42nd by volume, 61st by density. Nothing about North Burnet is an outlier in either direction, which in this context is genuinely useful information.

What the work in North Burnet actually is

• Remodel — 110 (77%)
• Repair — 28 (20%)
• New — 3 (2%)
• Addition and Remodel — 1 (1%)

The bulk is work on roofs that already exist — the ordinary profile of a settled Austin neighbourhood. It is also where a second opinion earns its keep: an inspection is a judgement call, and judgement calls differ.

What roof work costs in North Burnet

No residential permit in North Burnet carries a declared value, which is too thin to publish a figure from. Across the neighbourhoods that do have enough on file, the median sits at $21,890 — use that as a starting point and let an inspection move it.

North Burnet has its own storm year

Austin as a whole peaked in 2024. North Burnet peaked in 2013 — a different year entirely. That year ran 245% 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. North Burnet peaked in 2013 while Austin peaked in 2024, which means the roofs replaced on these streets are on a clock of their own — 13 years and counting.

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

If you own a roof in North Burnet

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 North Burnet, 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.