Roof Repair in Upper Boggy Creek

The permit record for Upper Boggy Creek

Roof permits in Upper Boggy Creek, year by year

The busiest year on record for Upper Boggy Creek was 2010, with 12 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.

The last three years have been busy in Upper Boggy Creek: 20 permits in 2023–2025 against 9 in 2020–2022, a 122% increase. Neighbourhood-level surges like this usually mean the street is working through something rather than ticking over.

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

Upper Boggy Creek by the square mile

Upper Boggy Creek covers 1.11 square miles, which works out at 148 roof permits per square mile — 23rd densest of the 91 neighbourhoods with a measured area. The city average is 99.

Density like that changes what a job costs before anybody climbs a ladder. Where houses sit close together a crew can do two or three in a week without moving the truck far, and dumpster access, scaffolding and the neighbour’s driveway all become part of the conversation.

33rd by number of permits, 23rd 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 Upper Boggy Creek actually is

• Remodel — 58 (35%)
• Repair — 43 (26%)
• Addition and Remodel — 38 (23%)
• New — 19 (12%)

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

90 residential roof permits in Upper Boggy Creek carry a declared value. The median is $25,000. 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.

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

Treat it as the size of the job rather than the price of it. Declared values are filed before anyone knows what is under the old roof, and that is where surprises live.

The build, and the bill that follows it

Since 2006 the city has permitted 486 new homes inside Upper Boggy Creek. 51 of them — 10% — went up between 2006 and 2010.

Only 51 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. Upper Boggy Creek peaked in 2010 — a different year entirely. That year ran 64% 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. Upper Boggy Creek had its year in 2010; whatever came through then stopped a few streets away.

For scale: Upper Boggy Creek holds 1.1% of every roof permit issued in Austin.

If you own a roof in Upper Boggy Creek

Everything above is public record. The point of putting it in one place is that a quote for a roof in Upper Boggy Creek 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.