Roof Repair in Wooten

The permit record for Wooten

Roof permits in Wooten, year by year

The busiest year on record for Wooten was 2013, with 6 permits. Peaks like that are the paper shadow of a storm. Roofs do not age in unison; insurance claims arrive in unison.

Recent trend: 7 permits in 2023–2025 against 7 in 2020–2022, 0% more. Nothing dramatic in either direction, which is what an area replacing roofs as they age out — a few a year, no stampede — looks like in the record.

Roughly 44% of the roof work permitted in Wooten 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?

Wooten covers 0.96 square miles, which works out at 73 roof permits per square mile — 45th 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.

The two rankings disagree, and in the interesting direction: Wooten is 73rd by total permits but 45th 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 Wooten actually is

• Remodel — 32 (46%)
• Repair — 19 (27%)
• Addition and Remodel — 16 (23%)
• Addition — 2 (3%)

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

30 residential roof permits in Wooten carry a declared value. The median is $40,000. 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 1.8x 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.

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.

Wooten and the twenty-year clock

Since 2006 the city has permitted 168 new homes inside Wooten. 12 of them — 7% — went up between 2006 and 2010.

Only 12 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.

Whose weather was it?

Austin as a whole peaked in 2024. Wooten peaked in 2013 — a different year entirely. That year ran 55% 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. Wooten 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: Wooten holds 0.5% of every roof permit issued in Austin.

If you own a roof in Wooten

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 Wooten, 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.