Paver patio cost in Dayton, OH

Climate in Dayton: timing your paver patio job

We use NOAA's 1991-2020 climate normals for Dayton Mcd (5 miles from the city center). These are 30-year monthly averages, not forecasts.

April through November is the stretch where digging, grading and setting material in the ground runs into the fewest weather problems in Dayton (8 of 12 months). January, February, March and December have an average overnight low at or below freezing (32°F).

In January, February, March and December the average low is at or below freezing, which means frozen ground and slower digging, compaction and sod or stone placement. NOAA counts about 107 days a year with a low at or below 32°F at this station.

Dayton gets about 42 inches of precipitation in a normal year, including roughly 12 inches of snow. The wettest months are April, May and June (4.5 inches in April). Inside the workable window, September and October are the driest, at 3.0 and 3.0 inches. The station averages about 39 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.

Is Dayton cheap or dear? The local comparison

Same job, same size (300 sq ft), priced for the nearest metros. Columbus is the priciest of the group at $4,600. Lexington is the cheapest at $4,050.

Across 300 US metros, Dayton comes in at #120 from the top. The priciest is Kahului, HI at $5,650; the cheapest is Dothan, AL at $3,500 (midpoints, 300 sq ft). Statewide, Dayton is 3% below the Ohio figure.

Other Ohio metros

Cities with a workforce like Dayton's

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

Related projects, priced for Dayton

Because every project leans on different trades, Dayton's wage level does not move all prices equally. Against the US midpoint, concrete driveway runs +4% and wood deck −4%.

Dayton labor market for paver patio

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 Dayton is 1.08 times the national level.

Construction laborers (47-2061), 50% of the weighting: a median of $25.48 an hour, 12% above the US median of $22.66. The middle half of them earn between $22.00 and $35.00 an hour. About 1,390 work in the metro. That is 37.3 per 10,000 jobs, compared with 70.5 nationally, so expect fewer local crews to bid.

Brickmasons and blockmasons (47-2021), 30% of the weighting: a median of $31.80 an hour, 6% above the US median of $29.87. The middle half of them earn between $24.31 and $37.67 an hour. About 80 work in the metro. That is 2.1 per 10,000 jobs, compared with 3.4 nationally, so expect fewer local crews to bid.

For landscaping and groundskeeping workers (37-3011, weighted 20%) the local median is $18.21 an hour, which is 3% below the national $18.82. The middle half of them earn between $17.49 and $21.80 an hour. BLS counts 2,080 of them working in the area, 55.8 for every 10,000 jobs (US: 61.3), so the local bench is about average.

Quotes come from real crews, not medians. If the construction laborers on your job are paid at the 75th percentile ($35.00 an hour) instead of the median, the labor line grows by about $540. At the 25th percentile ($22.00) it shrinks by about $200. The total moves by 12.4% or 4.5%, so wages alone rarely explain a quote that is far outside our range.

For context on the local economy, BLS counts 372,660 jobs in the Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek area. That makes it the 70th largest of the 300 metros we cover, with 0.24% of US employment.

Optional extras in Dayton

Extras are quoted nationally and then scaled to Dayton by the average of the local wage index (1.08) and goods index (0.94), a factor of 1.01. 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.

Pick a size, pick a tier: paver patio pricing in Dayton

Three bands are cut from the same cited range and localized for Dayton 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.

Specs and site conditions that change a Dayton bid

• Excavation and grading

  Digging out is $1-$5 per sq ft; regrading a sloped yard is $0.40-$2.00 per sq ft.

• Pattern

  Herringbone and curves take longer to lay and waste more stone than a running bond.

• Permit

  At-grade patios often need no permit; add a retaining wall, a cover, or a connection to the house and that changes.