Roof Repair in St. Edwards

The permit record for St. Edwards

Roof permits in St. Edwards, year by year

The busiest year on record for St. Edwards was 2011, with 21 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 54% — 6 permits in 2023–2025 against 13 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.

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.

Permits per square mile

St. Edwards covers 1.14 square miles, which works out at 76 roof permits per square mile — 42nd 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: St. Edwards is 65th by total permits but 42nd 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 St. Edwards actually is

• Remodel — 45 (52%)
• Repair — 25 (29%)
• Addition and Remodel — 9 (10%)
• New — 4 (5%)

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.

St. Edwards prices, from the filings

16 residential roof permits in St. Edwards carry a declared value. The median is $75,000. Deliberately the median: averages in small areas are hostage to whichever house had the most ambitious owner that year.

That runs about 3.4 times the median across Austin neighbourhoods, $21,890. Higher figures here are not a local mark-up. They are bigger roof areas, steeper pitches, more valleys and hips to flash, and more metal and tile in place of asphalt.

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 82 new homes inside St. Edwards. 8 of them — 10% — went up between 2006 and 2010.

That is a modest share, so St. Edwards 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.

St. Edwards has its own storm year

Austin as a whole peaked in 2024. St. Edwards peaked in 2011 — a different year entirely. That year ran 320% above this neighbourhood’s own average, which is the signature of a hail band rather than ordinary wear.

The useful number is 2011, not 2024. Whatever came through here did so on its own schedule, and the replacements it forced are now 15 years into a fifteen-to-twenty-year life.

For scale: St. Edwards holds 0.6% of every roof permit issued in Austin.

If you own a roof in St. Edwards

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.