Roof Repair in South Manchaca

The permit record for South Manchaca

Roof permits in South Manchaca, year by year

The busiest year on record for South Manchaca was 2018, 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.

The last six years split 13 permits in 2023–2025 against 17 in 2020–2022, slightly down. No wave, no drought — just roofs coming due at the pace roofs come due.

Roughly 16% of the roof work permitted in South Manchaca 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

South Manchaca covers 1.39 square miles, which works out at 94 roof permits per square mile — 34th densest of the 91 neighbourhoods with a measured area. The city average is 99.

That is close to the Austin average, so nothing about the geography here should move a quote much in either direction.

46th by number of permits, 34th once you divide by area. The two figures tracking each other means the roof work here scales with the neighbourhood rather than concentrating anywhere in particular.

What the work in South Manchaca actually is

• Repair — 51 (39%)
• Remodel — 42 (32%)
• Addition and Remodel — 17 (13%)
• New — 15 (11%)

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.

South Manchaca prices, from the filings

60 residential roof permits in South Manchaca 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.

Under the $21,890 median for Austin neighbourhoods, and for a straightforward reason: the roofs are smaller and the shapes are easier. Less surface, fewer penetrations, less labour.

Bear in mind what a declared value is: the number written on the application before the old roof came off. It tells you the league a job is in. It does not tell you what the invoice said.

How old are the roofs here

Since 2006 the city has permitted 954 new homes inside South Manchaca. 91 of them — 10% — went up between 2006 and 2010.

A cohort of 91 homes from 2006–2010 explains most of what happens on these streets. They aged together. If yours is one of them and still wears its first roof, the arithmetic has caught up with you.

South Manchaca has its own storm year

Austin as a whole peaked in 2024. South Manchaca peaked in 2018 — a different year entirely. That year ran 89% above this neighbourhood’s own average, which is the signature of a hail band rather than ordinary wear.

City-level figures flatten exactly the thing you want to see. South Manchaca peaked in 2018 while Austin peaked in 2024, which means the roofs replaced on these streets are on a clock of their own — 8 years and counting.

For scale: South Manchaca holds 0.9% of every roof permit issued in Austin.

If you own a roof in South Manchaca

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 South Manchaca, 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.