Bedroom addition cost in Houston: what owners paid (2023 survey)
Houston owners paid a median $17,140 for a bedroom addition or renovation: $10,140 above the U.S. median, the highest of 2 big metros (Census Bureau, 2023).
What Houston owners paid
$17,140
This is historical spending: work done in about 2021 to 2023 on owner-occupied homes, reported in the 2023 survey.
Margin of error ±$5,734: at 90% confidence the Houston median lies between $11,406 and $22,874.
How Houston compares
- U.S. median, same work
- $7,000
- Rank, highest first
- 1 of 2
Houston: $17,140. The highest of the big metros.
13 of the 15 metros have no published figure for this work, so the rank counts the other 2.
- Houston$17,140
- Riverside$6,000
No published figure: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington DC.
What it covers
Adding or renovating a bedroom, counted apart from building a whole house.
The Census category is “Bedroom” within “Room Additions and Renovations”: what Houston-area homeowners told the Census Bureau they paid, every size of job together.
Before you compare quotes
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