Data and methods

Published 2026-09-11 · By the Kissimmee Concrete team

Kissimmee Concrete Cost Index

Release Q3 2026 (2026-09-10) is a market composite. Each of the 18 items is an installed range per unit for the Kissimmee and Osceola County market, built from three inputs: supplier price lists (ready-mix $175–$280 per cubic yard delivered in the Orlando market, September 2026), published regional ranges from national cost references, and our own labor and material takeoffs for standard job sizes. It is not yet a sample of executed contracts.

What goes into each range. Material at current supplier pricing, base and haul-off, labor for a typical crew day, permit and disposal fees, and a minimum-charge floor for small jobs. Low end assumes straightforward access, sound subgrade and standard finishes; high end assumes tear-out of an old slab, tight access, borders and bands, or premium material. Anything outside those assumptions (structural fill, tree roots, drainage work, engineered walls) is priced separately and is not in the index.

What the index does not do. It does not price your job. It does not include sales tax on materials where applicable, financing charges or HOA fees. It does not reflect the busiest weeks of spring when crew availability tightens.

How it will change. From the next release, anonymized executed quotes (service, city, square footage, price, date) will be added to the sample and the release note will state the count per item. Items with fewer than five quotes will stay market-composite and be labelled as such. Releases are quarterly (2026-12-10 is next). Machine-readable copies: JSON, CSV, license CC BY 4.0 with attribution to Kissimmee Concrete and a link to this page.

Climate data behind the Pour Calendar

Monthly normals for maximum and minimum temperature, precipitation and number of days with precipitation at or above 0.01 and 0.10 inch come from NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals 1991–2020, station USC00084625 (Kissimmee 2, FL, 28.2764 N, 81.4239 W), downloaded September 10, 2026. Orlando International (USW00012815) is kept as a comparison series. The 'pour window' recommendation is our rule of thumb: months with 12 or more days of 0.10 inch or more are treated as storm-season months where pours start at daylight and finish before 2 p.m.

Soils

Map-unit acreage, drainage class and wet-season water-table depth come from USDA NRCS Soil Data Access queries for survey areas FL097 (Osceola County) and FL105 (Polk County), run September 10, 2026. 'Typical water table about 12 inches' is the minimum depth reported for Smyrna, Myakka, Immokalee and EauGallie fine sands in the wet months; Basinger is 6 inches and depressional Basinger and Placid are at the surface. A specific lot can differ from its map unit; we probe on site.

Jurisdiction finder

City and county boundaries are the U.S. Census Bureau's 2024 TIGERweb polygons, simplified to about 0.0006 degrees (roughly 200 feet) to keep the file small. Addresses are geocoded by the Census Bureau's public geocoder in your browser; nothing you type is sent to us. A result within a few hundred feet of a city line should be confirmed with the county's property appraiser or the city.

Distances and populations

Distances are straight-line from downtown Kissimmee (28.2920, −81.4076) to the Census internal point of each place (2024 Gazetteer). Drive times are an estimate (distance × 1.3 ÷ 32 mph) rounded to five minutes. Populations are Florida EDR 2025 adjusted estimates for incorporated cities; Census-designated places and unincorporated communities have no municipal figure and are labelled accordingly.

Surface temperature table

The pool-deck temperature comparison currently cites published measurements from installers and manufacturers and labels them as such. Our own measurements (infrared thermometer, 2 p.m., clear July day, six materials side by side on the same deck) are planned for the next summer and will replace the cited figures with method, date and instrument noted.

Demand and questions

The questions this site answers come from Google and Bing autocomplete (collected September 10, 2026), Google Trends for the Orlando DMA (five-year seasonality and related queries), the Google Ads Keyword Planner export for Florida markets (August 2025–July 2026), competitor FAQ gaps and the questions our estimators hear. Each question is assigned to one canonical page.

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What changed in this update: 2026-09-11 — first published