Asphalt driveway cost in Texarkana, TX

When to schedule asphalt driveway in Texarkana

We use NOAA's 1991-2020 climate normals for Texarkana (in the city). These are 30-year monthly averages, not forecasts.

September through June is the stretch where digging, grading and setting material in the ground runs into the fewest weather problems in Texarkana (10 of 12 months). July and August have an average daytime high of 90°F or more.

Texarkana gets about 52 inches of precipitation in a normal year, including roughly 2 inches of snow. The wettest months are April, May and December (5.3 inches in May). Inside the workable window, January and September are the driest, at 4.3 and 3.9 inches. The station averages about 82 days a year at 90°F or above.

Does the season change the price? Probably, but we do not have a sourced seasonal price curve, so the estimator shows a year-round figure and does not adjust by month. When you collect quotes, ask whether scheduling in a slower month gets a better rate.

Cost by quality level and size in Texarkana

Three bands are cut from the same cited range and localized for Texarkana wages and prices. They overlap on purpose: a good standard job and a modest premium job can cost the same. The grid below prices the same bands at 4 common sizes.

What nearby projects cost in Texarkana

Because every project leans on different trades, Texarkana's wage level does not move all prices equally. Against the US midpoint, French drain runs −13% and concrete driveway −20%.

Texarkana against nearby metros and the rest of Texas

Of the five closest metros, 2 are cheaper than Texarkana. Fort Smith is the lowest at about $4,450 (midpoint, 600 sq ft), 135 miles away.

Across 300 US metros, Texarkana comes in at #283 from the top. The priciest is Kahului, HI at $7,650; the cheapest is Fort Smith, AR at $4,450 (midpoints, 600 sq ft). Statewide, Texarkana is 5% below the Texas figure.

Other Texas metros

Cities with a workforce like Texarkana's

Big cities and small ones price differently, so here is Texarkana against the 4 metros with the closest total employment.

Specs and site conditions that change a Texarkana bid

• New versus overlay

  Resurfacing an existing driveway runs $3-$7 per sq ft; a full new driveway runs $5-$12+ (HomeGuide). Tearing out and replacing one is higher still.

• Base work

  Four to eight inches of compacted aggregate under the asphalt is where cheap quotes cut corners. Base typically runs $1-$3 per sq ft.

• Small jobs cost more per foot

  Paving crews move a paver, roller and trucks to your address, so a 400 sq ft driveway carries more mobilization per square foot than a 1,000 sq ft one.

Local wages behind the labor line

Wages are the part of this estimate that changes most from town to town. 3 trades carry the job here, and each is compared with its US median. The weighted result for Texarkana is 0.82 times the national level.

Paving, surfacing and tamping equipment operators (47-2071) carry 40% of the labor weighting. BLS does not publish this trade for the Texarkana metro, so we used the Texas statewide median: $22.63 an hour against $25.64 for the US. The middle half of them earn between $20.01 and $26.25 an hour.

Construction laborers (47-2061), 30% of the weighting: a median of $17.48 an hour, 23% below the US median of $22.66. The middle half of them earn between $15.37 and $19.11 an hour. About 450 work in the metro. That is 78.2 per 10,000 jobs, compared with 70.5 nationally, so the supply of crews looks typical.

For operating engineers and other construction equipment operators (47-2073, weighted 30%) the local median is $22.50 an hour, which is 22% below the national $28.78. The middle half of them earn between $18.92 and $25.83 an hour. BLS counts 280 of them working in the area, 48.6 for every 10,000 jobs (US: 30.7), so the local bench is deeper than average.

Quotes come from real crews, not medians. If the paving, surfacing and tamping equipment operators on your job are paid at the 75th percentile ($26.25 an hour) instead of the median, the labor line grows by about $120. At the 25th percentile ($20.01) it shrinks by about $85. The total moves by 2.6% or 1.9%, so wages alone rarely explain a quote that is far outside our range.

For context on the local economy, BLS counts 57,580 jobs in the Texarkana area. That makes it the 296th largest of the 300 metros we cover, with 0.04% of US employment.

Optional extras in Texarkana

Extras are quoted nationally and then scaled to Texarkana by the average of the local wage index (0.82) and goods index (0.94), a factor of 0.88. Tick any of them in the estimator above to add them to your total. Treat these as planning figures: an add-on touches different trades than the main job, so the scaling is an approximation.