Permit values
Roof replacement cost in Houston
Declared value is what the contractor reported to the building department, which is what the permit fee is calculated from. It is usually the contract value excluding tax, and it runs below a retail quote. Treat it as the floor of the market, not the price. Why the permit and the quote disagree.
What the spread looks like
Every valued permit in the window, grouped by declared value. The last bar holds everything above the 95th percentile, so one unusually large job does not flatten the rest.
Month by month
| Month | Permits valued | Median |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | 41 | $16,500 |
| September 2026 | 43 | $18,000 |
| October 2026 | 37 | — |
Complete calendar months only. The current month is left out until it ends.
Who pulled the most roofing permits in Houston
By permit count over the same window, out of the contractors the building departments name.
- 1HOLDEN ROOFING INC13 (9%)
- 2ABOVE ALL ROOFING AND CONSTRUCTION7 (4.9%)
- 3JOE OCHOA ROOFING, INC6 (4.2%)
- 4STRONGHOLD RESTORATION & ROOFING LLC4 (2.8%)
- 5ROOFING CONTRACTORS OF TEXAS4 (2.8%)
- 6REMEDY ROOFING4 (2.8%)
- 7LETTER ROOFING4 (2.8%)
- 8DC PINES ROOFING4 (2.8%)
- 9AMERISTAR ROOFING & RESTORATION3 (2.1%)
- 10AMSTILL ROOFING3 (2.1%)
Method
Permit Dawn reads the building departments in City of Houston building permits (weekly report) and Sugar Land daily permits with contractor phone numbers. Katy and Pasadena are coming. every night and keeps every residential permit they publish. This page counts the roofing permits issued in August 2026, September 2026, October 2026 — 166 of them, 121 carrying a declared value (73%). Duplicates and permits a city later re-published are excluded, along with values below $500 and above $2,000,000, which are placeholders rather than jobs. Medians and quartiles, not averages: a handful of very large jobs would drag a mean somewhere no homeowner would recognise.