Roof Repair in Georgian Acres

The permit record for Georgian Acres

Roof permits in Georgian Acres, year by year

The busiest year on record for Georgian Acres was 2024, with 27 permits. Single-neighbourhood peaks are rarely about roofs wearing out. They are about a storm that passed over these particular streets and not the next ones.

The last three years have been busy in Georgian Acres: 31 permits in 2023–2025 against 9 in 2020–2022, a 244% increase. Neighbourhood-level surges like this usually mean the street is working through something rather than ticking over.

One caveat that changes how you should read everything above: 67% of this is commercial. Offices, warehouses and apartment blocks file roof permits too, and theirs are bigger, flatter and priced by a different trade.

The gap matters practically. Commercial roofs in Austin are mostly flat or low-slope, finished in TPO or modified bitumen, and the crews who do them are not usually the crews you want on a pitched shingle roof. A company whose portfolio here is all offices may still quote your house — ask what proportion of their work is residential before you let them.

Georgian Acres by the square mile

Georgian Acres covers 1.05 square miles, which works out at 116 roof permits per square mile — 26th 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: Georgian Acres is 50th by total permits but 26th 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 Georgian Acres actually is

• Remodel — 87 (72%)
• Repair — 30 (25%)
• Addition and Remodel — 3 (2%)
• New — 1 (1%)

This is a neighbourhood repairing itself rather than expanding. The useful consequence: pricing here rests on diagnosis, so pay attention to who actually goes up on the roof before quoting, and who does it from the pavement.

The median job here

26 residential roof permits in Georgian Acres carry a declared value. The median is $22,000. That is the middle figure, not the mean. In a neighbourhood this small a single large job would pull an average out of shape, so the midpoint is the honest number.

That sits close to the $21,890 median across Austin neighbourhoods, so general city pricing is a fair starting point in Georgian Acres.

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.

The build, and the bill that follows it

Since 2006 the city has permitted 89 new homes inside Georgian Acres. 11 of them — 12% — went up between 2006 and 2010.

Only 11 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.

Local storms, local spikes

Austin as a whole peaked in 2024. Georgian Acres peaked in 2024, the same year as the city. That year ran 360% above this neighbourhood’s own average, which is the signature of a hail band rather than ordinary wear.

Sharing the city’s peak year puts Georgian Acres in a minority — only 12 of the 91 neighbourhoods do. It suggests the work here follows the general replacement cycle rather than one local storm.

For scale: Georgian Acres holds 0.8% of every roof permit issued in Austin.

If you own a roof in Georgian Acres

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 Georgian Acres, 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.