Roof Repair in 78736

The permit record for 78736

The trend is up: 6 permits in 2024–2026 against 5 in 2021–2023, 20% more than the previous three years. Nothing dramatic, but the direction is clear, and it usually means the housing stock in 78736 is moving through a replacement cycle rather than reacting to a single storm. The busiest year here was 2019.

Roof permits in 78736, year by year

The shape of the work here

Not every roof permit means the same job. In 78736, 44% are filed as repair — work booked as a repair rather than a rebuild. That is worth knowing before you read a quote: a contractor whose week is mostly one of these carries a different price list from one whose week is mostly another.

• Repair — 20 permits (44%)
• Remodel — 15 permits (33%)
• Addition and Remodel — 8 permits (18%)
• Addition — 1 permits (2%)

78736 is maintaining itself rather than expanding. In that kind of area the useful question to a contractor is not just the price but what happens if the decking underneath turns out to be soft — and whether that is already in the number.

What a roof costs in 78736

Most cost pages for Austin quote a national average with the city name dropped in. This one uses 78736’s own filings. The city’s permit record holds 7 residential jobs in this ZIP code that are roof work and nothing else — reroofs, replacements and repairs, not remodels that happened to touch the roof — each with a declared value. They fall like this:

• under $10,000 — 2 permits (29%)
• $10,000 to $20,000 — 2 permits (29%)
• $20,000 to $30,000 — 1 permits (14%)
• $30,000 to $50,000 — 2 permits (29%)

The biggest single group is under $10,000, at 29% of them. The average across all 7 is $18,949. That is close to the citywide average of $27,916, so 78736 is a fair place to use general Austin pricing as a starting point.

These are declared values, filed before anybody pulled the old roof off. They tell you which league a job is in. They do not tell you what your neighbour paid.

The 2 contractors with an address here

2 roofing and exterior contractors have a registered business address inside 78736. The dates come from the Texas Comptroller’s active sales tax permit file, so each one is the day that business first reported sales in Texas — not a rounded “10+ years” badge.

The longest-established is Sutton Roofing Company, Inc., trading since January 1, 2010 — 16 years. That is long enough to have been through at least one serious hail event in this city, which is the thing that sorts roofing businesses out.

Appearing on this list means one thing: the state has an active sales tax permit for that business under a roofing or exterior code. It says nothing about the work. Texas does not license roofers, so the insurance certificate is the document that matters.

The building wave, and what it means for your roof

Austin’s permit record starts in 2006, and since then 583 new homes have been permitted in 78736. When they went up matters more than how many, because roofs go on with the house and come off together:

• 2006-2010 — 113 homes (19%)
• 2011-2015 — 59 homes (10%)
• 2016-2020 — 149 homes (26%)
• 2021-2026 — 262 homes (45%)

The heaviest stretch was 2021-2026, with 45% of them. There are 113 homes here from the 2006–2010 build. UV, heat and hail take four or five years off a shingle’s rated life in Central Texas, so a 25-year product put on in 2008 is finishing now rather than in 2033. That is the wave 78736 is in.

What this means if you live here

None of these numbers tell you what your own roof needs. What they do tell you is what normal looks like in 78736, so that when a quote arrives you can see whether it sits inside the range or well outside it.