Concrete driveway cost in Tennessee (2026 Pricing)

How much does a concrete driveway cost in Tennessee?

Concrete driveway cost in Tennessee is $6.96 to $16.43 per square foot when our crew does the work. Plain broom concrete with fiber in the mix sits at the bottom. Stamped work with rebar, sealer, and your chosen extras sits at the top. For a two-car drive of 400 square feet, plan on $3,000 to $7,050 before the drive cost, meaning our trip to your place. Forming, the concrete, hand finishing, and the cure are all in that number.

West Tennessee moves the price in two ways before you ever pick a finish. The first is water. Memphis gets about 54 inches of rain a year, so the base has to drain. The mix still needs air for winter cold snaps. The second is soil, and it changes as you drive east. Shelby and Tipton counties sit on river clay. Brownsville and Jackson sit on loess, a fine silt the wind laid down. The ground gets firmer east of Henderson. For how we build the slab, see our Tennessee concrete flatwork page. Here we stay on cost.

How does driveway size change the cost?

None of these totals count the drive cost. Each total also carries the job’s setup, so small jobs run above the per-foot price range. A bigger slab costs less per foot. The layout, the crew’s trip, and the concrete order spread across more square feet. Read the size line this way:

• A pad under 250 square feet carries the whole setup in a small space, so it costs the most per foot.
• A long run past 800 square feet lands near the low end when the truck can back right up to it.
• Extra base on loess silt or Delta clay should show up as its own line, not hidden in the concrete price.
• A tight Midtown Memphis lot can add labor even when the slab is small.
• Pouring a patio, sidewalk, or shop apron with the driveway can lower the average price per foot.

Straight acreage drives in Madison, Chester, and Henderson counties go fast. The chute can follow the forms. The crew isn’t working around trees, parked cars, or tight utility lines.

How does the finish change the price?

Most homeowners in Shelby and Madison counties pick broom finish once they compare.

With rebar, a stamped drive begins at $12.57 per square foot. It costs more because the crew has to slow the pour, keep the pattern edges clean, and come back to seal it. Exposed aggregate is often the best value in West Tennessee. It hides fine surface cracks, grips better in the rain, and handles the odd de-icing without looking cheap.

What moves the bid up or down?

Footprint. A bigger pour costs less per foot but more in total. A small pad does the opposite, because setup eats most of the bill.

Pour depth. Four inches covers everyday cars and trucks. An RV, bass boat trailer, or service-body truck needs 5 or 6 inches. The quote tool prices that thickness, with a slider for 4-inch and 6-inch slabs.

Steel. Our base driveway price includes #4 rebar on an 18-inch grid, which is steel bar laid both ways, at $2.12 a square foot. Heavy slabs need it. For cars on stable ground, you can trade the rebar for micro fiber ($0.32), macro fiber ($0.72), or welded wire mesh ($0.63). Fiber mixes right into the concrete and suits smaller home jobs.

The ground under the slab. Plateau ground in Madison, Henderson, and Chester counties is usually the easiest. Clay in Shelby, Tipton, Lauderdale, and Dyer counties can swell after spring rain and shrink in late summer. Those lots may need 4 to 8 inches of crushed rock under the slab. We price that per job, after we see the site. Loess around Brownsville, Covington, and Jackson drains better, but it still needs packing before a slab that should last 25 years.

Truck and chute reach. A clear front-yard pour costs the least. The concrete truck backs up, the chute reaches the forms, and the crew finishes. A slab behind the house or on a steep grade needs more. So does a tight Midtown Memphis lot wedged between bungalows and parked cars. Those jobs bring in a pump truck at $1,780 flat.

Where in Tennessee does the price change?

We take Tennessee driveway work statewide. Our Memphis team works east on I-40 toward Jackson, north on US-51 toward Dyersburg, and south across the state line into DeSoto County, MS. Middle and East Tennessee jobs go on the schedule as a longer trip when the size and timing fit. Inside Tennessee, the drive to your address is the biggest swing on the price.

Our price per foot for a West Tennessee driveway doesn’t change from town to town. The soil, the kind of job, and the drive do. Shelby and Tipton County clay needs base work. Loess jobs around Brownsville, Covington, and Jackson depend on how well the ground gets packed. Plateau sites in Madison, Henderson, and Chester counties are usually cleaner to prep. The jobs differ too. Memphis is mostly replacing drives on tight home lots. The I-40 run adds barndominium and shop drives. Work around Dyersburg or Ripley often depends on pairing a few small jobs on one trip. The freeze cycle here is milder than in the Ozarks. But about 54 inches of rain a year keeps drainage and cure care on every bid.

What add-ons can change the bid?

Tear-out is the number people forget. It’s charged on the whole old slab before any new concrete arrives. The rate assumes a plain 4-inch slab, so a thicker slab, or one packed with steel, can cost more to break up and haul. If the old concrete is flat, still bonded, and hasn’t shifted, an overlay may skip the tear-out. That call needs a core check and a look at whether the cracks are still moving.

Is concrete cheaper than asphalt or gravel in Tennessee?

Once upkeep is counted, gravel and pavers cost about $0.30 to $0.60 per square foot each year, and asphalt about $0.25 to $0.55. Plain broom-finish concrete lasts about twice as long as asphalt and needs less care. Weigh that longer life against the higher first cost.

Why asphalt struggles in West Tennessee

Asphalt looks cheaper on signing day. But Memphis summer surfaces can pass 130 degrees F. That heat softens the tar that holds asphalt together, right under your parked tires. Gravel asks for regrading, weed control, and dust cleanup year after year.

Pour-4-Polish for bundled driveways

The Pour-4-Polish process runs four steps on every pour:

1. Set is the base and the forms.
2. Portland is the mix, checked against the batch ticket before it goes in.
3. Even covers placing the concrete and timing the finish.
4. Cure keeps water in the slab while it gains its early strength.

Add a porch, sidewalk, detached garage floor, or barndo pad, and you pay for one trip and one setup, not two. A 600-square-foot driveway poured with a 400-square-foot patio costs less per foot than two separate visits. Planning a polished floor inside that garage or barndo? We can pour it as a Slab Boss Pour, built to our polish spec, and that cuts field and edge polishing by 30%.

How much is the travel charge from Memphis?

We figure the drive from Memphis by real road miles.

The online quote tool adds the drive cost, listed by itself, once you enter your address.

What is included in a driveway quote?

Every quote comes in writing, line by line, so a cheap base number can’t hide missing work.

Included:

• Laying out and building the forms
• Grading and packing the soil
• 4 inches of packed crushed rock for the base
• #4 rebar, or cheaper wire mesh or fiber if you swap
• Concrete mixed to 4,000 PSI that carries 4 to 6 percent air per ACI 318
• Broom texture on top
• Control joints saw-cut every 8 to 10 feet
• Curing compound per ACI 308R
• Pulling the forms and cleaning up
• The round-trip drive to your address

Priced as their own lines:

• Tearing out an old driveway
• Fixing clay or loess past routine packing
• Added depth
• Stamped or colored finishes, or exposed aggregate
• A pump truck
• Drainage work outside the driveway
• Local permit fees

Why do driveway bids spread so wide?

What’s on the batch ticket. A bid near $4 a foot is almost always plain 3,000 PSI concrete with no air added. For West Tennessee, ask for 4,000 PSI concrete carrying 4 to 6 percent air, per ACI 318. Below that, the top starts flaking off within 5 to 8 winters.

Honest ground work. A bid that skips the packing pass on Delta clay or loess silt saves the contractor half a day. It costs the homeowner a cracked slab within three to five years.

The cure. Concrete reaches its rated strength over 28 days, but the first 7 days do most of the work. A Friday pour left alone over a 90-plus degree July weekend is how plastic shrinkage cracks start. Those fine cracks form when the top dries faster than the rest.

What the line item says. “Reinforcement” on a bid might mean tied rebar, welded mesh, or fiber in the mix. Those three aren’t the same. The bid should say which one is in the price.

Get your own number

Use the online quote tool. Put in your ZIP code, the slab size, the finish, and what’s there now. A steep grade, tricky access, or tear-out over 600 square feet gets a site visit before the number locks.

Related Tennessee pages

• Tennessee concrete flatwork service covers slabs, sidewalks, patios, and shop pads across Tennessee
• Tennessee polished concrete cost
• Tennessee garage floor coating cost
• Tennessee barndominium slab
• Memphis concrete flatwork
• Jackson concrete flatwork
• National concrete driveway cost guide
• Pour-4-Polish process
• Tennessee state hub