Concrete driveway cost
Contractors bid a typical $10.60 a square foot for new concrete 6 in or thicker in 2025 and early 2026, and $13.18 to break out an old driveway and replace it. A 12 × 50 ft driveway comes to about $6,361 new.
What cities paid for driveway concrete
These prices come from city bid tabulations for driveway aprons, drive approaches and 6 in sidewalk at driveways, the concrete where cars cross. Each city counts once, at the median of its bidders. New work varies more than replacement: a few Northeastern and Oregon cities paid over $20 a square foot, so the middle half runs from $8.15 to $19.92.
| City | Bids opened | Bids | Typical | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brookland, AR | July 2025 | 3 | $7.32 | $5.79 to $8.89 |
| Sheboygan, WI | March 2025 | 8 | $7.80 | $7.00 to $13.48 |
| Orlando, FL | June 2025 | 4 | $8.06 | $4.44 to $10.00 |
| Baraboo, WI | February 2025 | 2 | $8.43 | $8.00 to $8.85 |
| Denver, CO | 2025 | 2 | $8.72 | $7.67 to $9.78 |
| Dickinson, ND | 2025 | 3 | $12.48 | $11.90 to $21.87 |
| Urbandale, IA | February 2026 | 11 | $13.00 | $12.00 to $21.50 |
| Hanover Township, NJ | August 2025 | 5 | $22.22 | $12.22 to $31.11 |
| Albany, OR | May 2025 | 7 | $23.33 | $13.78 to $25.89 |
| Branford, CT | February 2025 | 7 | $25.00 | $13.00 to $32.00 |
| City | Bids opened | Bids | Typical | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orlando, FL | June 2025 | 4 | $8.33 | $8.00 to $10.00 |
| Morton Grove, IL | March 2025 | 4 | $10.72 | $8.94 to $13.89 |
| Sandy, UT | April 2025 | 10 | $12.00 | $11.50 to $18.50 |
| Hartford, WI | July 2025 | 4 | $12.85 | $8.50 to $14.57 |
| Sidney, OH | February 2025 | 7 | $13.50 | $10.00 to $30.00 |
| St. Peters, MO | 2025 | 4 | $15.00 | $12.22 to $22.22 |
| Fort Thomas, KY | May 2025 | 5 | $16.00 | $15.00 to $18.00 |
| Hanover Township, NJ | August 2025 | 5 | $22.22 | $12.78 to $35.56 |
Driveway prices by size
| Driveway | New, typical | New, most bids | Replace, typical |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 × 20 ft, one car | $2,120 | $1,630 to $3,983 | $2,635 |
| 12 × 40 ft | $5,089 | $3,911 to $9,560 | $6,324 |
| 12 × 50 ft | $6,361 | $4,889 to $11,950 | $7,905 |
| 20 × 20 ft, two cars | $4,240 | $3,259 to $7,967 | $5,270 |
| 20 × 40 ft | $8,481 | $6,518 to $15,933 | $10,540 |
| 24 × 24 ft, two-car pad | $6,106 | $4,693 to $11,472 | $7,589 |
The figures are the city prices times the area. A residential job is smaller than a city program and may cost more per foot; three quotes will show you where your area sits.
What goes into the price
Driveway concrete is poured thicker than a walk, so it takes half again as much concrete: about $3.54 a square foot at 6 in with 10% extra, at $174 a cubic yard. The rest is the crew, forms, the compacted gravel base, any steel and the finishing. Work out the stone for the base with the crushed stone calculator, the steel with the rebar calculator, and the concrete itself with the slab and pad calculator.
Breaking out an old driveway adds removal and hauling. Where cities paid for removal on its own it ran about $2.24 a square foot; the remove-and-replace bids above include it.
| Region | Cities | Typical a sq ft | City figures |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northeast | 2 | $23.61 | $22.22 to $25.00 |
| Midwest | 4 | $10.45 | $7.80 to $13.00 |
| South | 2 | $7.69 | $7.32 to $8.06 |
| West | 2 | $16.03 | $8.72 to $23.33 |
Concrete, asphalt or gravel
A gravel driveway costs the least to build and needs topping up; work out the stone with the gravel driveway calculator. Asphalt sits in between; the asphalt calculator gives the tons of hot mix and 2026 public prices. Whichever you choose, a new concrete driveway needs time before it carries a car: the curing schedule gives the dates.
Sources
- Bid tabulations for city sidewalk, driveway and concrete repair programs, 2025 and 2026, The 21 cities and towns listed in the table on this page, each linked to its own bid tabulation, bids opened February 2025 to February 2026. Every contractor's unit price for concrete sidewalk, driveway and approach work, new and remove-and-replace, converted to dollars per square foot; engineers' estimates left out.
- Annual Performance Benchmarking Survey and State of the Industry, National Ready Mixed Concrete Association, October 2024 (2023 data). Average selling price of ready-mixed concrete: $159.68 per cubic yard in 2023, $137.99 in 2022, $122.98 in 2021; 2023 quartiles $150.03 to $170.66.
- Producer Price Index by Industry: Ready-Mix Concrete Manufacturing (PCU327320327320), U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, via FRED (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis), monthly, latest September 2026. Index 402.82 in September 2026 (June 1981 = 100), 393.59 a year earlier and 307.18 five years earlier; 2023 average 369.67.