Roof Repair in Hancock

The permit record for Hancock

Roof permits in Hancock, year by year

The busiest year on record for Hancock was 2014, with 14 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: up 60% — 24 permits in 2023–2025 against 15 in 2020–2022. In a single neighbourhood a rise that steep is rarely gradual ageing. Something concentrated it: weather, or a run of houses reaching the same birthday.

Roughly 41% of the roof work permitted in Hancock 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

Hancock covers 0.85 square miles, which works out at 202 roof permits per square mile — 14th densest of the 91 neighbourhoods with a measured area. The city average is 99.

Packed neighbourhoods are cheap to serve and awkward to work. A crew already on the street will quote your roof more keenly than one driving across town — but tight lots mean less room for the dumpster and more chance of a shingle landing in somebody else’s pool.

Hancock ranks 29th by total permits and 14th 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 Hancock actually is

• Remodel — 78 (46%)
• Repair — 44 (26%)
• Addition and Remodel — 33 (19%)
• New — 13 (8%)

The bulk is work on roofs that already exist — the ordinary profile of a settled Austin neighbourhood. It is also where a second opinion earns its keep: an inspection is a judgement call, and judgement calls differ.

Hancock prices, from the filings

66 residential roof permits in Hancock carry a declared value. The median is $26,683. Deliberately the median: averages in small areas are hostage to whichever house had the most ambitious owner that year.

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

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 267 new homes inside Hancock. 33 of them — 12% — went up between 2006 and 2010.

That is a modest share, so Hancock 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.

Hancock has its own storm year

Austin as a whole peaked in 2024. Hancock peaked in 2014 — a different year entirely. That year ran 75% 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. Hancock had its year in 2014; whatever came through then stopped a few streets away.

For scale: Hancock holds 1.2% of every roof permit issued in Austin.

If you own a roof in Hancock

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