Roof Repair in 78749

The permit record for 78749

The trend is up: 34 permits in 2024–2026 against 24 in 2021–2023, 42% more than the previous three years. Nothing dramatic, but the direction is clear, and it usually means the housing stock in 78749 is moving through a replacement cycle rather than reacting to a single storm. The busiest year here was 2017.

Roof permits in 78749, year by year

The shape of the work here

Not every roof permit means the same job. In 78749, 36% 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 — 82 permits (36%)
• Remodel — 71 permits (31%)
• Addition and Remodel — 56 permits (25%)
• Addition — 17 permits (7%)

78749 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 78749

Most cost pages for Austin quote a national average with the city name dropped in. This one uses 78749’s own filings. The city’s permit record holds 8 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 — 3 permits (38%)
• $10,000 to $20,000 — 2 permits (25%)
• $20,000 to $30,000 — 1 permits (13%)
• $30,000 to $50,000 — 2 permits (25%)

The biggest single group is under $10,000, at 38% of them. The average across all 8 is $15,004. That sits well below the citywide average of $27,916. Cheaper does not mean worse work; it means smaller and simpler roofs. A single-storey house with one ridge and no valleys is a fundamentally easier job than a two-storey with dormers, and it prices that way.

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 one contractor with an address here

One roofing or exterior contractor has a registered business address inside 78749. 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 Protractor Roofing Services, trading since April 1, 2011 — 15 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 595 new homes have been permitted in 78749. When they went up matters more than how many, because roofs go on with the house and come off together:

• 2006-2010 — 150 homes (25%)
• 2011-2015 — 137 homes (23%)
• 2016-2020 — 136 homes (23%)
• 2021-2026 — 172 homes (29%)

The heaviest stretch was 2021-2026, with 29% of them. 150 of these houses date from 2006 to 2010 — the single most useful number on this page. Those roofs are between sixteen and twenty years old, which in this climate is the stretch where a hailstorm stops being survivable and starts being a claim.

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 78749, so that when a quote arrives you can see whether it sits inside the range or well outside it.