Roof Repair in Mcneil

The permit record for Mcneil

Roof permits in Mcneil, year by year

The busiest year on record for Mcneil was 2010, with 45 permits. Peaks like that are the paper shadow of a storm. Roofs do not age in unison; insurance claims arrive in unison.

The last three years have been busy in Mcneil: 68 permits in 2023–2025 against 10 in 2020–2022, a 580% 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: 74% 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.

Spread out, or packed in?

Mcneil covers 7.09 square miles, which works out at 74 roof permits per square mile — 43rd 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.

Worth holding those two rankings side by side: Mcneil is 2nd of 91 by sheer number of permits but only 43rd 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 Mcneil actually is

• Repair — 229 (44%)
• Remodel — 215 (41%)
• Addition and Remodel — 43 (8%)
• New — 28 (5%)

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.

What the neighbours declared

59 residential roof permits in Mcneil carry a declared value. The median is $36,073. 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 1.6x 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.

Mcneil and the twenty-year clock

Since 2006 the city has permitted 338 new homes inside Mcneil. 126 of them — 37% — went up between 2006 and 2010.

That is a block of 126 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. Mcneil peaked in 2010 — a different year entirely. That year ran 193% above this neighbourhood’s own average, which is the signature of a hail band rather than ordinary wear.

This is why citywide roofing statistics mislead. Storms are local: 79 of the 91 mapped neighbourhoods peaked in a year the city as a whole did not. Mcneil took its hit in 2010, and the roofs replaced then are now 16 years old.

For scale: Mcneil holds 3.6% of every roof permit issued in Austin.

If you own a roof in Mcneil

None of this replaces an inspection. It does mean you can walk into one knowing what the street has been paying and when it was last done, which is more than most people have.

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.