Exterior paint costs in Austin
Here’s the ballpark for common exterior paint jobs around Austin, TX. Want one for your own project? A photo is all it takes.
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What it usually costs
- Repaint the whole house$2.27 – $4.86 per sq ft
- Paint just the trim and shutters$1.47 – $5.89 per sq ft
A ballpark, not a quote. Some of these are national averages adjusted for Austin prices, so your job could land outside them.
Exterior paint in Austin
Half the housing in the Austin metro was built in 2005 or later; that's the median year in the Census Bureau's 2024 survey. On many houses, the paint you're replacing may still be the builder's, so the real question is what it went on.
Across the South, new single-family houses finished in 2024 split mostly four ways by main wall material, per the Census Bureau's new-housing data: about a quarter brick, a quarter fiber cement, and a little over a fifth each stucco and vinyl. Wood was only 2 in 100. Fiber cement and stucco both take paint. Brick usually stays bare, which leaves the trim, soffits, gables and any siding on the back as the painter's work. Vinyl isn't usually painted at all.
What wears the paint out here is heat. Camp Mabry, the city's official weather station, records close to a month of 100-degree days, on average, every year. The sun breaks paint down into a chalky film, fades it, and opens up caulked joints. Those joints are where water gets behind fiber cement and trim, so fresh caulk belongs in any repaint here.
If your house has a lot of brick or stone on the front, the job may be smaller than the square footage of the house suggests.
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