Recreation room addition cost in Dallas: 2023 spending

Dallas owners paid a median $20,000 for recreation room work: $10,000 above the U.S. median, the highest of 4 big metros (Census Bureau, 2023).

What Dallas owners paid

$20,000

This is historical spending: work done in about 2021 to 2023 on owner-occupied homes, reported in the 2023 survey.

Margin of error ±$5,554: at 90% confidence the Dallas median lies between $14,446 and $25,554.

How Dallas compares

U.S. median, same work
$10,000
Rank, highest first
1 of 4

Dallas: $20,000. The highest of the big metros.

11 of the 15 metros have no published figure for this work, so the rank counts the other 4.

Recreation room addition cost: median paid by metro, 2023 survey
  1. Dallas$20,000
  2. New York City$6,000
  3. Los Angeles$4,998
  4. Atlanta$3,000

No published figure: Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Miami, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Riverside, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington DC.

What it covers

Adding or renovating a recreation or family room.

The Census category is “Recreation Room” within “Room Additions and Renovations”: what Dallas-area homeowners told the Census Bureau they paid, every size of job together.

Before you compare quotes

If your quote is well above $20,000, ask what is in it that the typical job is not. What room area, access, systems and finish level are included?

Measure your job with the material calculator. Then put the quotes in your project budget worksheet to see each one's scope beside its price.

My plans

Plans saved in this browser. Open a tool, then choose its load option to restore your measurements.

Choose a calculator