Toilet Repair in Texas

Weighted across 4,766,101 occupied homes. Separately, 46% of the state’s 5,133,894 housing units — a wider universe, because it includes vacant ones — were built before 1990, which is before the Energy Policy Act of 1992 set a 1.6 gallon flush maximum.

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, tables B25003 (tenure) and B25034 (year structure built), 2023 release. Flush volumes: US EPA WaterSense, tank-type toilet supporting statement.

A state average hides the thing that matters. Of the 128 towns we route in here, 3 are mostly pre-1990 housing and 83 are mostly post-1990 housing; on tenure, 51 are strongly owner-occupied and 17 are renter-heavy.

The two are close to independent of each other, so an old town is not reliably an owning town or a renting one. That is why every town page below carries its own pair of figures rather than inheriting these.

The fault list does not vary by state. A running tank is the flapper or the fill valve, and EPA publishes a ten-minute test that tells them apart. Water at the base is four different faults, one of which is condensation and not a leak at all. A fixture that rocks is the one that causes the seal failure you will meet later.

What varies by town is who fixes it. In a rented home the toilet is normally the landlord’s repair, and in the towns above that is a large share of households.

Checking a credential in Texas

Texas licenses are issued by the Texas State Board of Plumbing Examiners, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins.

• Addison 16% owner-occupied · 33% pre-1990
• Allen 72% owner-occupied · 19% pre-1990
• Anderson 86% owner-occupied · 32% pre-1990
• Anna 78% owner-occupied · 10% pre-1990
• Argyle 94% owner-occupied · 12% pre-1990
• Arlington 55% owner-occupied · 63% pre-1990
• Aubrey 77% owner-occupied · 8% pre-1990
• Austin 47% owner-occupied · 46% pre-1990
• Azle 79% owner-occupied · 51% pre-1990
• Balch Springs 64% owner-occupied · 55% pre-1990
• Bedford 52% owner-occupied · 74% pre-1990
• Bellaire 88% owner-occupied · 38% pre-1990
• Blue Ridge 89% owner-occupied · 44% pre-1990
• Bryan 55% owner-occupied · 50% pre-1990
• Burleson 76% owner-occupied · 34% pre-1990
• Caddo Mills 87% owner-occupied · 29% pre-1990
• Caldwell 83% owner-occupied · 46% pre-1990
• Campbell 78% owner-occupied · 48% pre-1990
• Carrollton 58% owner-occupied · 56% pre-1990
• Cedar Hill 69% owner-occupied · 40% pre-1990
• Cedar Park 65% owner-occupied · 15% pre-1990
• Celeste 84% owner-occupied · 52% pre-1990
• Celina 93% owner-occupied · 15% pre-1990
• Cleveland 78% owner-occupied · 32% pre-1990
• College Station 41% owner-occupied · 35% pre-1990
• Colleyville 96% owner-occupied · 40% pre-1990
• Commerce 51% owner-occupied · 66% pre-1990
• Conroe 65% owner-occupied · 28% pre-1990
• Coppell 64% owner-occupied · 36% pre-1990
• Crandall 85% owner-occupied · 21% pre-1990
• Crowley 75% owner-occupied · 27% pre-1990
• Dallas 44% owner-occupied · 65% pre-1990
• Denton 52% owner-occupied · 42% pre-1990
• Desoto 71% owner-occupied · 44% pre-1990
• Duncanville 65% owner-occupied · 85% pre-1990
• Ennis 71% owner-occupied · 50% pre-1990
• Euless 38% owner-occupied · 57% pre-1990
• Farmersville 83% owner-occupied · 37% pre-1990
• Ferris 80% owner-occupied · 51% pre-1990
• Flower Mound 82% owner-occupied · 21% pre-1990
• Forney 82% owner-occupied · 10% pre-1990
• Forreston 100% owner-occupied · 60% pre-1990
• Fort Worth 58% owner-occupied · 55% pre-1990
• Frisco 63% owner-occupied · 6% pre-1990
• Garland 62% owner-occupied · 75% pre-1990
• Gause 87% owner-occupied · 48% pre-1990
• Georgetown 76% owner-occupied · 18% pre-1990
• Grand Prairie 58% owner-occupied · 49% pre-1990
• Grapevine 52% owner-occupied · 46% pre-1990
• Greenville 60% owner-occupied · 64% pre-1990
• Haltom City 50% owner-occupied · 84% pre-1990
• Haslet 86% owner-occupied · 5% pre-1990
• Hearne 69% owner-occupied · 69% pre-1990
• Hockley 86% owner-occupied · 24% pre-1990
• Houston 46% owner-occupied · 56% pre-1990
• Huffman 78% owner-occupied · 45% pre-1990
• Humble 69% owner-occupied · 27% pre-1990
• Hurst 62% owner-occupied · 75% pre-1990
• Hutchins 49% owner-occupied · 35% pre-1990
• Hutto 78% owner-occupied · 11% pre-1990
• Iola 85% owner-occupied · 40% pre-1990
• Irving 39% owner-occupied · 59% pre-1990
• Italy 71% owner-occupied · 57% pre-1990
• Josephine 95% owner-occupied · 29% pre-1990
• Joshua 73% owner-occupied · 36% pre-1990
• Justin 83% owner-occupied · 13% pre-1990
• Kaufman 76% owner-occupied · 52% pre-1990
• Keller 74% owner-occupied · 14% pre-1990
• Kennedale 78% owner-occupied · 44% pre-1990
• Kingwood 68% owner-occupied · 49% pre-1990
• Krum 83% owner-occupied · 31% pre-1990
• Lake Dallas 74% owner-occupied · 30% pre-1990
• Lancaster 67% owner-occupied · 47% pre-1990
• Lavon 88% owner-occupied · 10% pre-1990
• Leander 81% owner-occupied · 16% pre-1990
• Lewisville 51% owner-occupied · 42% pre-1990
• Liberty Hill 86% owner-occupied · 11% pre-1990
• Lone Oak 86% owner-occupied · 39% pre-1990
• Magnolia 81% owner-occupied · 18% pre-1990
• Mansfield 72% owner-occupied · 21% pre-1990
• Maypearl 63% owner-occupied · 66% pre-1990
• McKinney 61% owner-occupied · 15% pre-1990
• Melissa 88% owner-occupied · 7% pre-1990
• Mesquite 63% owner-occupied · 69% pre-1990
• Midlothian 81% owner-occupied · 21% pre-1990
• Milano 89% owner-occupied · 54% pre-1990
• Milford 68% owner-occupied · 62% pre-1990
• Montgomery 85% owner-occupied · 23% pre-1990
• Nevada 93% owner-occupied · 15% pre-1990
• New Caney 76% owner-occupied · 36% pre-1990
• North Richland Hills 64% owner-occupied · 60% pre-1990
• North Zulch 74% owner-occupied · 45% pre-1990
• Palmer 87% owner-occupied · 45% pre-1990
• Pflugerville 70% owner-occupied · 12% pre-1990
• Pilot Point 85% owner-occupied · 40% pre-1990
• Pinehurst 88% owner-occupied · 23% pre-1990
• Plano 58% owner-occupied · 40% pre-1990
• Ponder 78% owner-occupied · 27% pre-1990
• Porter 81% owner-occupied · 23% pre-1990
• Princeton 78% owner-occupied · 21% pre-1990
• Prosper 89% owner-occupied · 5% pre-1990
• Quinlan 81% owner-occupied · 50% pre-1990
• Red Oak 84% owner-occupied · 40% pre-1990
• Richardson 51% owner-occupied · 56% pre-1990
• Roanoke 74% owner-occupied · 22% pre-1990
• Rockwall 81% owner-occupied · 23% pre-1990
• Round Rock 64% owner-occupied · 22% pre-1990
• Rowlett 76% owner-occupied · 31% pre-1990
• Royse City 89% owner-occupied · 13% pre-1990
• Sachse 85% owner-occupied · 18% pre-1990
• Sanger 81% owner-occupied · 36% pre-1990
• Scurry 87% owner-occupied · 36% pre-1990
• Seagoville 85% owner-occupied · 42% pre-1990
• Snook 58% owner-occupied · 58% pre-1990
• Somerville 81% owner-occupied · 55% pre-1990
• Southlake 96% owner-occupied · 19% pre-1990
• Spicewood 90% owner-occupied · 22% pre-1990
• Splendora 84% owner-occupied · 41% pre-1990
• Spring 71% owner-occupied · 31% pre-1990
• Sunnyvale 83% owner-occupied · 22% pre-1990
• Terrell 74% owner-occupied · 49% pre-1990
• The Colony 61% owner-occupied · 28% pre-1990
• Venus 91% owner-occupied · 15% pre-1990
• Waxahachie 72% owner-occupied · 36% pre-1990
• Willis 77% owner-occupied · 32% pre-1990
• Wilmer 61% owner-occupied · 31% pre-1990
• Wolfe City 78% owner-occupied · 72% pre-1990
• Wylie 79% owner-occupied · 18% pre-1990