Roof Repair in Old Enfield

The permit record for Old Enfield

Roof permits in Old Enfield, year by year

The busiest year on record for Old Enfield was 2011, with 10 permits. Single-neighbourhood peaks are rarely about roofs wearing out. They are about a storm that passed over these particular streets and not the next ones.

Roughly 16% of the roof work permitted in Old Enfield is on commercial buildings rather than houses — a mixed area, and worth remembering when you compare the total against a purely residential one.

Old Enfield by the square mile

Old Enfield covers 0.33 square miles, which works out at 155 roof permits per square mile — 19th 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.

The two rankings disagree, and in the interesting direction: Old Enfield is 81st by total permits but 19th by density. Compact and busy — a lot of roof work packed into very little ground, which is the profile of older, tightly built streets.

What the work in Old Enfield actually is

• Addition and Remodel — 18 (35%)
• Remodel — 14 (27%)
• Repair — 13 (25%)
• Addition — 4 (8%)

This is a neighbourhood repairing itself rather than expanding. The useful consequence: pricing here rests on diagnosis, so pay attention to who actually goes up on the roof before quoting, and who does it from the pavement.

The median job here

30 residential roof permits in Old Enfield carry a declared value. The median is $61,901. That is the middle figure, not the mean. In a neighbourhood this small a single large job would pull an average out of shape, so the midpoint is the honest number.

Against a $21,890 median across the city’s neighbourhoods, that is on the high side — about 2.8x. Big roofs, steep roofs and roofs finished in something other than asphalt all land in the same place on an invoice.

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.

The build, and the bill that follows it

Since 2006 the city has permitted 187 new homes inside Old Enfield. 28 of them — 15% — went up between 2006 and 2010.

Only 28 homes from that window means the housing here is mixed in age. That is easier to live with: no year when the whole street needs scaffolding, and no scramble for crews.

Local storms, local spikes

Austin as a whole peaked in 2024. Old Enfield peaked in 2011 — a different year entirely. That year ran 305% 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. Old Enfield had its year in 2011; whatever came through then stopped a few streets away.

For scale: Old Enfield holds 0.3% of every roof permit issued in Austin.

If you own a roof in Old Enfield

Everything above is public record. The point of putting it in one place is that a quote for a roof in Old Enfield 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.