Roof Repair in Windsor Road

The permit record for Windsor Road

Roof permits in Windsor Road, year by year

The busiest year on record for Windsor Road was 2010, with 22 permits. Peaks like that are the paper shadow of a storm. Roofs do not age in unison; insurance claims arrive in unison.

The last three years have been busy in Windsor Road: 11 permits in 2023–2025 against 7 in 2020–2022, a 57% increase. Neighbourhood-level surges like this usually mean the street is working through something rather than ticking over.

Roughly 17% of the roof work permitted in Windsor Road 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?

Windsor Road covers 0.85 square miles, which works out at 196 roof permits per square mile — 16th densest of the 91 neighbourhoods with a measured area. The city average is 99.

That concentration is why you see the same company’s yard signs three houses apart here. It is efficient for them, and worth using: a contractor already working your block has every reason to price the next roof sharply.

Both rankings agree here: 32nd by volume, 16th by density. Nothing about Windsor Road is an outlier in either direction, which in this context is genuinely useful information.

What the work in Windsor Road actually is

• Addition and Remodel — 72 (43%)
• Remodel — 50 (30%)
• Repair — 27 (16%)
• Addition — 9 (5%)

Most of this is maintenance on standing houses rather than anything new. In that situation the quote depends on what the contractor expects to find under the shingles, which is exactly why two honest numbers can be thousands apart.

What the neighbours declared

102 residential roof permits in Windsor Road carry a declared value. The median is $98,500. 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.

Roughly 4.5x the $21,890 median across Austin neighbourhoods. Before reading that as expensive, look at the rooflines: complexity costs more than materials do, and every valley, dormer and chimney is another place that has to be flashed by hand.

A filed value tells you the order of magnitude and nothing finer. Useful for spotting a quote that is wildly out of line; useless for arguing over a few hundred dollars.

Windsor Road and the twenty-year clock

Since 2006 the city has permitted 550 new homes inside Windsor Road. 96 of them — 17% — went up between 2006 and 2010.

96 houses built inside five years is a wave, not a trickle. Heat, ultraviolet and the odd hail event take four or five years off a shingle’s rated life here, which puts the whole group past sixteen and into the stretch where a storm stops being survivable.

Whose weather was it?

Austin as a whole peaked in 2024. Windsor Road peaked in 2010 — a different year entirely. That year ran 186% 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. Windsor Road peaked in 2010 while Austin peaked in 2024, which means the roofs replaced on these streets are on a clock of their own — 16 years and counting.

For scale: Windsor Road holds 1.1% of every roof permit issued in Austin.

If you own a roof in Windsor Road

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 Windsor Road, 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.