Concrete cost guide
Driveways, patios, pool decks, slabs and walkways per square foot and per typical project (two-car driveway, 12x12 patio, shed pad), with the factors that move the price.
Concrete costs →Pricing: concrete and paver costs around Kissimmee
Pricing
How pricing works on this site
Every number here is a planning range from the Kissimmee Concrete Cost Index, release Q3 2026 (2026-09-10), for installed work in the Kissimmee and Osceola County market, with the method published and the data downloadable. Ranges are not quotes: your price comes in a written proposal after a site visit that checks access, subgrade, drainage and HOA requirements. The Polk ridge runs slightly lower on labor; the resort corridor slightly higher on scheduling.
Paver cost guide
Paver driveways, patios, pool decks, travertine, walkways, sealing and repair per square foot and per project (600 sq ft pool deck, two-car driveway).
Paver costs →Kissimmee Concrete Cost Index
The full 18-item table, method, limitations, release history, and CSV/JSON downloads under CC BY 4.0 for Realtors, managers and other sites.
The index →Ten things that move a concrete or paver price in Osceola County
- Removal. Tearing out an old slab adds $2 to $4 per square foot; thicker slabs and tight access more.
- Size. Small pours carry the ready-mix short-load fee and a full crew day; under 200 square feet expect the top of every range.
- Thickness and steel. 6 inches with a rebar grid runs 35 to 45 percent more than 4 inches with fiber.
- Base. Muck, roots or a saturated subgrade mean fill and extra compaction, priced separately.
- Drainage. Trench drains, channel drains and swales are line items.
- Finish. Stamped, colored, exposed aggregate and borders add per square foot.
- Material grade. Standard concrete pavers versus premium lines versus travertine, marble and porcelain.
- Access. Gated resort communities, alley lots and rural lots a mixer cannot reach (pump or buggy).
- Permits and HOA. Fees are passed through; packets are our time.
- Season. Spring is the busiest window (Google Trends shows paver interest peaking April–May in the Orlando market); rainy-season pours need early starts and sometimes a lost day.
Get a real number
The Concrete & Paver Calculator turns dimensions into cubic yards, bags, base and a dated range. The Project Brief Generator writes up your job so three contractors quote the same thing. The estimate form gets a written proposal.
Cost drivers
What actually moves a price in this market
| Factor | Effect on the number | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Removing an existing surface | Adds $2.00 to $4.00 per sq ft | Breaking, loading and tipping is a day and a truck |
| Job size under about 200 sq ft | Pushes to the top of every range | Truck minimum, short-load fee and a crew day are fixed |
| Access a machine cannot reach | Adds 15 to 30 percent on excavation | Hand work and wheelbarrows instead of a skid steer |
| Structural fill where the base has washed out | Quoted after the slab is up | Nobody can see it until the old surface is gone |
| Borders, bands and curves in a paver field | Adds 8 to 18 percent in waste and cutting | Every perimeter unit is a cut |
| Six inches and a rebar grid instead of four | About $3.00 per sq ft | Half again the concrete, plus steel and chairs |
| Premium paver or natural stone | Doubles the material line | Material is 35 to 50 percent of a paver job |
| Drainage work | Priced separately and itemised | A channel drain, a dry well or a swale is its own scope |
| Permit and notice of commencement | A few hundred dollars | Fee plus filing and inspection time |
| Spring scheduling, March to May | No price change, longer lead time | Paver demand peaks in April and May every year |
How to compare three quotes properly
Square-foot price is close to useless as a comparison unless the specification behind it is the same, and it usually is not. The three numbers we would put side by side instead are base depth and material, slab thickness with mix strength and reinforcement, and what the quote says about drainage. Those three account for most of the variation in this market, and all three are invisible once the job is finished.
A worked example. Two quotes for a 480 square foot driveway, one at $4,300 and one at $5,900. The cheaper one is four inches of three thousand psi on two inches of sand with wire mesh; the dearer one is four inches of three thousand five hundred psi with fibre and edge bars on four inches of compacted limerock, with the downspouts extended and joints cut at ten feet. That is not a thirty percent price difference for the same thing. Our project brief tool produces a one-page specification you can hand to every bidder so they are pricing the same job.
What we will not quote over the phone
We will give a range over the phone all day, because the ranges are published here anyway. What we will not do is give a firm number without seeing the site, and the reason is the list above: nobody can price structural fill, access, drainage or what is under an existing slab from a description.
The pattern we see most is a homeowner with three phone quotes, two of which are lower than ours and neither of which mentions base, and then a change order on day two when the old slab comes up. A written proposal after a site visit is slower and it is the only way the number at the top means anything at the end.
Why
Why we publish prices at all
Most contractors in this market do not publish ranges. The reasoning is understandable: every job is different, a number in public invites a comparison you cannot control, and a competitor can undercut a published figure. We publish anyway, for two reasons.
The first is that homeowners are going to find a number somewhere, and the numbers available are national averages from lead-generation sites that have never seen Osceola County. A local range with a stated method is more useful than a national average with none. The second is that the alternative, where nobody publishes anything, advantages the contractor who is relying on you having nothing to compare against. We would rather compete on what is in the base than on who kept the number hidden longest.
Reading a range correctly
Every figure on these pages is a range, and the spread is not padding. The low end assumes straightforward access, sound subgrade, a simple rectangular layout, standard material and no surprises. The high end assumes removal of an existing surface, constrained access, borders and cuts, premium material, or a site that needs work before the surface goes down.
Most jobs land in the middle, and the position within the range is decided by things that can be established at a site visit rather than over the phone. The one line we genuinely cannot bracket in advance is structural fill where an old slab has been hiding a washed-out base, which is why it appears as a stated possibility in the proposal rather than as a number.
Currency
When these numbers will change
The index is refreshed quarterly, and the two inputs that move it are ready-mix pricing and paver material pricing. Both have moved more in the last several years than they did in the decade before, which is why every figure on this site carries a release label rather than being presented as a standing price.
If you are reading a figure here more than three months after the release date shown, check the current release before relying on it. The machine-readable copies carry the release date in the payload for exactly that reason, so a number reused elsewhere keeps its vintage attached.
Glossary
A short glossary for reading a quote
| Term | What it means |
|---|---|
| Flatwork | Horizontal concrete: driveways, patios, slabs, walks. Not footings or walls |
| Base | Compacted aggregate under the slab or the pavers; not the sand it is bedded on |
| Subgrade | The native ground under the base |
| Proof-roll | Loading the subgrade to find soft spots before building on it |
| Lift | One layer of base placed and compacted before the next goes on |
| Control joint | A tooled or saw-cut line that decides where a shrinkage crack goes |
| Expansion joint | A compressible separation between a slab and another structure |
| Apron | The section of driveway between the property line and the street |
| Right-of-way | The public strip containing the street, verge and sidewalk |
| Edge restraint | The buried edge that stops a paver field spreading |
| Bedding course | The one inch of screeded sand pavers are set into |
| Polymeric sand | Joint sand with a binder that hardens when watered |
| Short load | A ready-mix delivery below the truck minimum, carrying a surcharge |
| Structural fill | Imported material replacing unsuitable ground, compacted in lifts |
Questions we get about this
Are these prices quotes?
No. They are planning ranges with a published method. A quote comes after a site visit and is in writing.
How often is the index updated?
Quarterly. The Q3 2026 release is dated 2026-09-10; the next is scheduled for 2026-12-10.
Why is a small job so expensive per square foot?
The truck minimum, the short-load fee and the crew day are the same whether the slab is 100 or 400 square feet.
Do you charge for estimates?
No. Site visits and written proposals are free.
Do you offer financing?
Ask on the estimate; a financing partner will be listed here once one is in place.
Get a written estimate for your project
Tell us the size, the surface you have now and where the lot is. We visit, measure, check access and drainage, and send a written proposal. No pressure calls.
What changed in this update: 2026-09-11 — first published