Roof Repair in Davenport Lake Austin

The permit record for Davenport Lake Austin

Roof permits in Davenport Lake Austin, year by year

The busiest year on record for Davenport Lake Austin was 2012, with 10 permits. Peaks like that are the paper shadow of a storm. Roofs do not age in unison; insurance claims arrive in unison.

Davenport Lake Austin has gone quiet: 11 permits in 2023–2025 against 16 in 2020–2022, 31% fewer. That is what the far side of a wave looks like — the work happened, and the clock restarted on all of it at once.

Roughly 24% of the roof work permitted in Davenport Lake Austin 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?

Davenport Lake Austin covers 5.84 square miles, which works out at 20 roof permits per square mile — 76th densest of the 91 neighbourhoods with a measured area. The city average is 99.

At this spacing a roofer is making a trip for one house, not three. Expect fewer same-day inspections, be a little more patient with scheduling, and if a quote looks high, ask plainly whether travel is inside it.

Worth holding those two rankings side by side: Davenport Lake Austin is 52nd of 91 by sheer number of permits but only 76th by density. It appears high on the list because it covers a lot of ground, not because any particular street is unusually busy.

What the work in Davenport Lake Austin actually is

• Remodel — 37 (32%)
• Addition and Remodel — 29 (25%)
• Repair — 25 (22%)
• New — 15 (13%)

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

62 residential roof permits in Davenport Lake Austin carry a declared value. The median is $69,306. 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 3.2x 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.

Davenport Lake Austin and the twenty-year clock

Since 2006 the city has permitted 835 new homes inside Davenport Lake Austin. 191 of them — 23% — went up between 2006 and 2010.

That is a block of 191 houses roofed in the same few years, which will need reroofing in the same few years. Asphalt shingle in Central Texas gives fifteen to twenty, not the twenty-five on the wrapper, so that cohort is at the end of its first roof now.

Whose weather was it?

Austin as a whole peaked in 2024. Davenport Lake Austin peaked in 2012 — a different year entirely. That year ran 74% 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. Davenport Lake Austin had its year in 2012; whatever came through then stopped a few streets away.

For scale: Davenport Lake Austin holds 0.8% of every roof permit issued in Austin.

If you own a roof in Davenport Lake Austin

Everything above is public record. The point of putting it in one place is that a quote for a roof in Davenport Lake Austin 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.