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. The low end is a plain broom finish with lighter steel. The high end is stamped, with rebar, sealer, and the add-ons you pick. A double-car driveway of 400 square feet comes to $3,000 to $7,050 before the drive cost, which is our trip out to your place. Forming, pouring, finishing, and curing are all in that number.

Texas moves the number in its own ways. Summer slabs hit 110 degrees at the surface, per NWS Norman. Black land prairie clay around Sherman and Denison swells and shrinks. East Texas stays damp. Our Texas concrete flatwork page covers how we build. This page sticks to price.

How does driveway size change the price?

Those totals leave out the drive cost. Bigger pours cost less per foot. The crew, the forms, and the setup show up either way, so a big slab spreads that cost thinner. A 240-square-foot single-car drive costs the most per foot. An 800-plus-foot pour lands near the low end. That’s why long rural drives around Stephenville, Mineral Wells, and the Red River come in low per foot.

Which finish should you pick?

Broom finish covers most North Texas home driveways. Plain and tough is hard to beat. Swap the rebar for mesh or fiber, and a broom drive drops toward the low end.

A 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 it ages well through the odd ice storm.

What moves your final price?

1. Square footage. A bigger driveway costs less per foot and more in total.

2. Slab thickness. Our standard driveway is a 5-inch slab with rebar. RV pads and shop drives can go to 6 inches. The quote tool has a thickness slider that prices 4-inch and 6-inch slabs, so you can see the gap for your size.

3. Steel. Our driveway price starts with #4 rebar on an 18-inch grid, steel bars laid both ways, at $2.12 a square foot. Long drives on swelling clay need it. For cars on stable ground, you can swap to wire mesh at $0.63, micro fiber at $0.32, or macro fiber at $0.72. Macro fiber is a heavier, structural fiber mixed right into the concrete.

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

5. Hot-weather cure. A pour in 100-plus degree air needs three extra steps. A spray slows drying on top. A fine water mist keeps the air wet. Then the slab gets 7 days of wet cure. Skip them, and the slab can crack before it even sets. We price this per job once the pour date is set, because only the hot days need it.

Does clay soil affect Texas driveways and sidewalks?

Yes, and it’s the main reason slabs crack here. Expansive clay swells when it gets wet and shrinks when it dries. It moves driveways, sidewalks, and patios the same way. The fix is under the slab, not in it.

• Black land prairie clay runs through Sherman, Denison, and Gainesville. Its plasticity index often passes 35, per Texas AgriLife Extension. That means it moves a lot. These lots often need 4 to 8 inches of crushed-rock base and control joints closer than 10 feet apart.
• Red sandy loam around Wichita Falls drains better. Sloped lots still get 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?

We work two parts of Texas, out of Wichita Falls and Texarkana. We don’t take driveway work in Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, or Austin.

North Texas and the Wichita Falls area

Cities: Wichita Falls, Sherman, Denison, Gainesville, Stephenville, Mineral Wells. This is ranch country along the Red River, with lots of barndominium and shop-pad work.

Texarkana and East Texas

Cities: Texarkana, Mount Pleasant, Sulphur Springs, Paris, Marshall, Longview. These towns sit along I-30 and I-20. East Texas gets 45 to 55 inches of rain a year, per NWS Shreveport, so summer pours cure on a different clock.

Three things move a Texas driveway’s price: the soil, the kind of job, and the drive. Clay, sandy loam, and river-bottom soil each need a different base. The jobs differ too. Wichita Falls and rural North Texas pour a lot of barndominium and shop pads. Sherman and the Red River towns pour two-car drives on newer Lake Texoma builder lots. Texarkana pours more work on older homes and old mill buildings. The drive matters most on jobs under 400 square feet.

What add-ons cost extra?

Tear-out on a replacement drive

Tear-out is a real line on a replacement drive. You pay it on every square foot of the old slab, before any new concrete shows up. The rate above assumes a plain 4-inch slab. A thicker slab or one full of steel can cost more to break out.

How does concrete compare to other Texas driveway options?

Counting upkeep, gravel, asphalt, and pavers each run about $0.30 to $0.60 a square foot per year. Concrete lasts about twice as long as asphalt with less upkeep, so it usually costs the least per year. Asphalt softens on 130-degree summer days and ruts faster than its lifespan suggests. Pavers look sharp at first. But the joint sand is real work, and North Texas clay opens those gaps every spring.

Can you bundle a driveway with other concrete work?

Yes. The crew pouring your driveway can pour a patio, sidewalk, garage slab, or Texas barndominium slab on the same trip. A patio or walk poured on the same trip shares one drive cost. The forms are up, the concrete trucks are booked, and the crew is already there, so the price per foot drops. On rural sites around Wichita Falls and in East Texas, the mileage is the biggest cost outside the pour itself. That’s why folks there often pour a driveway, a shop pad, and a barndo slab all 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.

How much does the drive to your address add?

We work Texas out of Wichita Falls and Texarkana. The drive cost is figured from whichever one is closer to you, by real road miles.

The online quote tool works out the drive cost from your address. It shows as its own line on the quote.

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 4,000 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 from Wichita Falls or Texarkana

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

How do Texas prices compare to the national average?

A two-car drive in our part of Texas prices close to the national average. Big rural barndominium pours around Wichita Falls run lower per foot. Contractors in coastal markets often charge $7 to $14 a square foot for the same broom finish. That’s their number, not ours. The national concrete driveway cost guide shows the rest of the country.

Why prices vary between contractors

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

1. Set. This is the ground work and the forms. Skip the packing checks on prairie clay, and the slab cracks early.
2. Portland. This is the mix. Ours is 4,000 PSI with 4 to 6 percent air per ACI 318. A $4-a-foot bid may use 3,000 PSI with no air. It looks fine at first, then the top flakes off.
3. Even. This is placing and finishing the concrete.
4. Cure. This keeps water in the slab. A summer pour that skips the 7-day wet cure tends to crack early.

Get your own number

The fastest way is the online quote tool. Enter the size, your address, and the finish. You’ll see a price in about 2 minutes. Tricky sites get a visit first.

Related Texas pages

• Texas concrete flatwork service covers how we pour flatwork across the state.
• Texas polished concrete cost, Texas garage floor coating cost, and Texas barndominium slab are the neighboring price pages.
• Wichita Falls and Texarkana have the local details for each area.
• The Texas state hub lists every town we cover.
• The Pour-4-Polish page walks through the four pour steps.
• The national concrete driveway cost guide compares Texas with the rest of the country.