Concrete driveway cost in Texas (2026 pricing)

What does a concrete driveway cost in Texas?

Concrete driveway cost in Texas runs $6.96 to $16.43 a square foot with us, installed. A double-car drive of 400 square feet comes to $3,000 to $7,050 before the drive cost, which is our trip out to your place. Forms, base, steel, pour, finish, and cure are all in that number. In Texas, the clay under the slab is the biggest swing, and summer heat adds cure steps.

How does driveway size change the price?

Each total runs from a plain broom drive at the low end to a stamped, sealed one with tear-out at the top. Bigger pours cost less per foot. The crew and the setup show up either way, so a big slab spreads that cost thinner. That’s why long ranch drives around Stephenville, Mineral Wells, and the Red River come in low per foot.

Which finish should you pick?

A decorative stamped driveway with rebar starts at $12.57 a square foot. Exposed aggregate is the sleeper pick around Sherman and Denison. It hides fine surface cracks and holds up through the odd ice storm.

Quick picks for a Texas lot:

• Cars only, sandy ground near Wichita Falls: broom finish, with mesh or fiber in place of rebar.
• Swelling clay near Sherman or Gainesville: rebar, extra base, and joints under 10 feet apart.
• RVs, trailers, or a shop drive: 6 inches thick.
• Grip and some style for less: exposed aggregate.
• A stone or brick look: stamped.

What moves your final price?

Thickness. Our standard driveway is a 5-inch slab with rebar. The quote tool has a thickness slider, so you can see what a change adds.

Steel. Our price starts with #4 rebar on an 18-inch grid. Long drives on swelling clay need it. For cars on firm ground, you can swap to wire mesh or fiber. Macro fiber is the heavier kind, mixed right into the concrete.

Hot-weather cure. Summer slabs hit 110 degrees at the surface, per NWS Norman. A pour in 100-plus degree air needs three extra steps. We spray the top to slow drying, mist the air, and wet-cure the slab for 7 days. Skip them, and the slab can crack before it sets. We price this once the pour date is set, since only hot days need it.

Soil. Every price includes a 4-inch crushed-rock base. Clay lots can need more, priced after we see the site.

Does clay soil affect Texas driveways and sidewalks?

Yes. Swelling clay is the main reason slabs crack here, and it moves a sidewalk the same way it moves a driveway. The clay soaks up water and swells, then shrinks when it dries. That clay covers much of North Texas, and the fix is the same everywhere. It goes under the slab.

• Black land prairie clay runs through Sherman, Denison, and Gainesville. Its plasticity index often passes 35, per Texas AgriLife Extension. That’s a lab number for how much it moves, and 35 is a lot. These lots often need 4 to 8 inches of rock base and joints closer than 10 feet apart.
• Red sandy loam around Wichita Falls drains better. A sloped lot still gets a packed base.
• River-bottom soil in East Texas, around Texarkana and Longview, stays wet all year. That changes how we time the cure.

Where in Texas does the price change?

Three of our teams cover Texas. Our Wichita Falls team takes North Texas: Wichita Falls, Gainesville, Stephenville, and Mineral Wells. That’s ranch country, with a lot of barndo and shop-pad work. Sherman and Denison sit closest to our Southern Oklahoma team, so that team pours there.

Texarkana and East Texas

Our Texarkana team takes Texarkana, Mount Pleasant, Sulphur Springs, Paris, Marshall, and Longview, along I-30 and I-20. East Texas gets 45 to 55 inches of rain a year, per NWS Shreveport, so pours there cure on a different clock.

Three things move a Texas driveway’s price: the soil, the kind of job, and the drive. Sherman and the Red River towns pour two-car drives on newer Lake Texoma builder lots. Texarkana does more work on older homes and old mill buildings. And the drive matters most on jobs under 400 square feet, where one trip lands on a small slab.

How much does the drive to your address add?

The online quote tool counts the road miles from that team to your address, and the first 40 miles each way are free.

Past that, it counts the round trip for each day we’re on site and shows the drive as its own line.

What add-ons cost extra?

Tear-out is charged on every foot of the old slab. The rate assumes a plain 4-inch slab, and a thicker one or one full of steel can cost more.

How does concrete compare to other Texas driveway options?

Concrete lasts about twice as long as asphalt with less upkeep. So over its life, it usually costs the least. Asphalt goes soft on a Texas summer afternoon and ruts where the tires roll. And North Texas clay opens paver joints every spring.

How do Texas prices compare to the national average?

The national market range for a plain broom driveway is $5 to $8^[1] a square foot, installed. A basic to mid-range stamped one runs $10 to $20^[2]. Our broom drive starts at $8.64, with the #4 rebar and the 4-inch packed rock base already in that price. The national concrete driveway cost guide shows the rest of the country.

Can you bundle a driveway with other concrete work?

Yes. We can pour a patio, sidewalk, garage slab, or Texas barndominium slab on the same days as your driveway, and the price per foot drops. On rural sites, the drive is the biggest cost outside the pour. That’s why folks out there often pour a driveway, a shop pad, and a barndo slab at once.

If a polished floor will go inside that shop or barndo, we can pour the slab as a Slab Boss Pour, placed to our polish spec. Then field and edge polishing costs 30% less than it would on its own. See the Pour-4-Polish process.

What is included in a driveway quote?

Every Bel Covo driveway quote comes in writing, line by line, so you can see what’s in and what’s out.

Included:

• Layout and forms
• Soil prep and packing
• A packed crushed-rock base, 4 inches deep
• #4 rebar, or cheaper wire mesh, micro fiber, or macro fiber if you swap
• A 5-inch pour at 4,500 PSI with 4 to 6 percent air per ACI 318
• A broom finish
• Control joints cut every 8 to 10 feet
• Curing compound per ACI 308R
• Form removal and cleanup
• The drive cost, as its own line

Priced as their own lines:

• Tearing out an old driveway
• Fill past standard prep
• A thicker slab
• Stamping, stain, or exposed aggregate
• A pump truck
• Drainage work outside the driveway
• Hot-weather cure on summer pours
• City permits, where they’re needed

Prices vary between contractors for four reasons

A lower bid usually means a step got skipped. We run four steps on every pour, and each one costs something.

1. Set is the ground work and the forms. Skip the packing on prairie clay, and the slab cracks early.
2. Portland is the mix. Ours is 4,500 PSI with 4 to 6 percent air per ACI 318. A bid well under ours may use 3,000 PSI with no air. It looks fine at first. Then the top flakes off.
3. Even is placing and finishing, timed to the heat of the day.
4. Cure keeps water in the slab while it hardens. A summer pour that skips the 7-day wet cure tends to crack early.

Get your own number

To get a quote on your concrete driveway fast, use the online quote tool. Enter the size, your address, and the finish, and you’ll see a price in about 2 minutes. Tricky sites get a visit first. When you hold quotes side by side, check each for the mix strength, the air, the base depth, and the cure plan.

Related Texas pages

• Texas concrete flatwork: how we build
• Texas polished concrete cost, Texas garage floor coating cost, and Texas barndominium slab
• Wichita Falls and Texarkana local pages
• The Texas state hub, with every town we cover
• Pour-4-Polish, our four pour steps
• The national concrete driveway cost guide