Paver patio cost
Contractors laid pavers for a typical $29.75 a square foot on public jobs in 2025 and 2026, and $21.56 to $42.56 for most. A 12 × 16 ft patio comes to about $5,712 at that price.
What public jobs paid
Cities and counties buy paver work for plazas, sidewalks and courtyards, and publish every bid. We found eight buyers with paver items in 2025 and 2026 bid tabulations. Each counts once, at the middle of its bids. The jobs differ: some are new patios and walks, some replace old pavers, and in a few the buyer supplied the pavers or paid for the gravel base as a separate item, as the table notes.
| Buyer | Item | Notes | Per sq ft |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marlboro, NJ, Feb 2025 | Concrete pavers (patio), 5,505 sq ft: six bids, $30 to $100 | new | $49.50 |
| Evanston, IL, May 2026 | Brick paver removal and replacement, 100 sq ft: $40 and $50 | replaced | $45.00 |
| Wooster, OH, May 2025 | Clay brick pavers, 638 sq ft: $33.50 and $50 | new | $41.75 |
| Lancaster County, PA, Mar 2025 | Reset or replace brick pavers, 302 sq ft: six bids, $25 to $72.70 | replaced | $31.50 |
| Millville, NJ, Sep 2025 | Concrete pavers on a setting bed, 1,063 sq ft: five bids, $25 to $80 | pavers supplied by the city | $28.00 |
| Salem County, NJ, Nov 2025 | Remove and replace brick pavers, 14,700 sq ft: four bids, $7 to $30 | replaced | $22.75 |
| Mount Prospect, IL, 2025 contract | Brick pavers: $11.25 to install plus $6.75 for the pavers | base by others | $18.00 |
| River Forest, IL, Jun 2026 | Permeable pavers, 6,710 sq ft: six bids, $11.50 to $18.80 | base paid separately | $12.38 |
Most of these are in the Northeast and Midwest, and public work pays prevailing wages, so a backyard patio in another region may come in lower. The one item that is a patio, Marlboro's courtyard, drew the highest prices, from $30 to $100 a square foot.
Patio prices by size
| Patio | Low | Typical | High |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 × 10 ft | $2,156 | $2,975 | $4,256 |
| 10 × 12 ft | $2,588 | $3,570 | $5,108 |
| 12 × 12 ft | $3,105 | $4,284 | $6,129 |
| 12 × 16 ft | $4,140 | $5,712 | $8,172 |
| 16 × 20 ft | $6,900 | $9,520 | $13,620 |
| 20 × 20 ft | $8,625 | $11,900 | $17,025 |
Doing it yourself
The materials for a 12 × 16 ft patio, pavers at the typical online price and bedding sand, come to about $926, plus 6.76 tons of base gravel at your yard's price. The paver calculator counts the pavers and the paver base calculator the gravel and sand. The work is in digging out and compacting the base, which most people rent a plate compactor for.
Pavers or concrete
A plain concrete patio costs less to have built: cities paid a typical $10.02 a square foot for new 4 to 5 in concrete in 2025; see concrete patio cost. Pavers cost more to lay but can be lifted and relaid, and a cracked paver is replaced on its own. Natural stone is another choice; the flagstone calculator gives the tons.
Sources
- 2025 courtyard pavers, bid tabulation, Marlboro Township, New Jersey (via PinPoint Analytics), 12 February 2025. Concrete pavers (patio), 5,505 sq ft: six bids of $30 to $100 a square foot.
- 2026 CDBG sidewalk improvements, bid tabulation, City of Evanston, Illinois, 5 May 2026. Brick paver removal and replacement $40 and $50 a square foot.
- S. Market Street and South Street streetscape, bid tabulation, City of Wooster, Ohio, 13 May 2025. Clay brick pavers $33.50 and $50 a square foot; landscape mulch furnished and placed, 3 cu yd, $100 and $355 a cubic yard.
- 2025 street trees concrete repairs, bid tabulation, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (via PinPoint Analytics), 13 March 2025. Reset or replace brick pavers, 302 sq ft: six bids of $25 to $72.70 a square foot.
- High Street downtown sidewalk improvements, phase II, bid tabulation, City of Millville, New Jersey (via PinPoint Analytics), 30 September 2025. Concrete pavers on a ¾ in asphalt setting bed, pavers provided by the city: five bids of $25 to $80 a square foot.
- Brick sidewalk reconstruction on Market Street, bid tabulation, Salem County, New Jersey (via PinPoint Analytics), 18 November 2025. Remove and replace brick pavers, 14,700 sq ft: four bids of $7 to $30 a square foot.
- Brick sidewalk replacement, Central Gateway project, Village of Mount Prospect, Illinois, 6 August 2025. Brick paver maintenance contract, 2025 rates: installation $11.25 a sq ft, pavers $6.75 to $9.03, remove and replace $13.50; base by others.
- Village Hall permeable paver parking lot, bid tabulation, Village of River Forest, Illinois, 5 June 2026. Permeable pavers, 6,710 sq ft: six bids of $11.50 to $18.80 a square foot; aggregate base a separate item.
- Online store listings for bagged concrete, mortar, grout, block, rebar, mesh, gravel, sand, soil, mulch and pavers, Google Shopping results (Home Depot, Lowe's, Menards, Ace Hardware, Walmart and others), November 2026. Single-item prices by store; the calculators use the median as the default and show the range.
- 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.