Roof Repair in Garrison Park

The permit record for Garrison Park

Roof permits in Garrison Park, year by year

The busiest year on record for Garrison Park was 2016, with 18 permits. When one area jumps and the rest of the city does not, the cause came out of the sky. The lag between the hail and the paperwork usually runs a season.

Recent trend: down 35% — 13 permits in 2023–2025 against 20 in 2020–2022. Fewer permits does not mean sturdier roofs. Usually it means the replacement wave already went through, and the roofs put on then are quietly ageing.

Roughly 26% of the roof work permitted in Garrison Park is on commercial buildings rather than houses — a mixed area, and worth remembering when you compare the total against a purely residential one.

Permits per square mile

Garrison Park covers 1.97 square miles, which works out at 58 roof permits per square mile — 53rd 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.

Garrison Park ranks 53rd by total permits and 53rd by density — about as consistent as those two measures get. The volume is proportionate to the size of the place rather than to anything unusual on the roofs.

What the work in Garrison Park actually is

• Remodel — 50 (44%)
• Repair — 43 (38%)
• Addition and Remodel — 18 (16%)
• New — 2 (2%)

More than a third of it is booked as repair rather than replacement. Repair-heavy neighbourhoods are where quotes vary most wildly, because two roofers looking at the same patch can honestly disagree about whether it needs mending or replacing — and the difference between those two answers is most of the money.

Garrison Park prices, from the filings

43 residential roof permits in Garrison Park carry a declared value. The median is $15,000. Deliberately the median: averages in small areas are hostage to whichever house had the most ambitious owner that year.

That is well under the $21,890 median across Austin neighbourhoods. Lower is not worse: simple single-storey roofs with one ridge and no dormers are genuinely quicker work, and they price accordingly.

This is what was declared, not what was paid. It is the best public evidence available and it is still only half the story — the other half gets written after the tear-off.

How old are the roofs here

Since 2006 the city has permitted 355 new homes inside Garrison Park. 27 of them — 8% — went up between 2006 and 2010.

That is a modest share, so Garrison Park has no single group of roofs falling due at the same moment. Replacements arrive a house at a time, which usually means less door-knocking after a storm and more room to shop around.

Garrison Park has its own storm year

Austin as a whole peaked in 2024. Garrison Park peaked in 2016 — a different year entirely. That year ran 194% above this neighbourhood’s own average, which is the signature of a hail band rather than ordinary wear.

The useful number is 2016, not 2024. Whatever came through here did so on its own schedule, and the replacements it forced are now 10 years into a fifteen-to-twenty-year life.

For scale: Garrison Park holds 0.8% of every roof permit issued in Austin.

If you own a roof in Garrison Park

If something on your roof has changed since last year — a ceiling stain, grit collecting in the gutter, a shingle in the yard after a windy night — the cheap moment to deal with it is before the next storm, not after.

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.