Carpet Installation Cost in Texas (2026): $3.48 to $9.08 per Sq Ft
Carpet installation in Texas costs about $3.48 to $9.08 per sq ft for nylon or triexta carpet on 8 lb pad, installed: $500 to $1,310 for a 12x12 room and $3,480 to $9,080 for 1,000 sq ft, before removal. The labor line is scaled to Texas’s carpet installer wage, a mean $25.55 an hour in May 2025, 0.93 times the national $27.40 (BLS). Carpet and pad are national Home Depot and Lowe’s prices; the method is at the foot of the page.
Texas carpet cost by grade and room size
Grade
Per sq ft
12x12 room
1,000 sq ft
Budget polyester, 6 lb rebond
$1.90–$7.37
$270–$1,060
$1,900–$7,370
Standard nylon or triexta, 8 lb rebond
$3.48–$9.08
$500–$1,310
$3,480–$9,080
Premium wool, memory foam
$4.72–$15.24
$680–$2,190
$4,720–$15,240
Installation labor in Texas works out at $0.64 to $1.49 per sq ft in this model: Home Depot’s published $0.69 basic rate at the low end, our estimate at the high end, both times the state wage ratio. Stairs, removal and furniture moving are extra; price them in the carpet cost calculator, or see carpet labor cost per square foot.
Why Texas labor sits below the national rate
Texas carpet installers earned a mean $25.55 an hour in May 2025, 0.93 times the national mean (BLS). Texas is the largest state in our Southwest region, whose installer wage averages 0.92 times the national mean. The labor line is the only part of the price that changes by state: carpet and pad are national retail prices, so the Texas total runs $3.48 to $9.08 per sq ft for nylon or triexta against $3.53 to $9.21 in Ohio.
BLS publishes the state figure only, not one per city, in the state file this page uses. Quotes in Houston, Dallas, Austin and San Antonio can sit either side of it.
Questions
About $3.48 to $9.08 per sq ft installed for nylon or triexta carpet on 8 lb rebond pad, so a 12x12 room is $500 to $1,310 and 1,000 sq ft is $3,480 to $9,080, before removal. Budget polyester starts at $1.90 per sq ft and wool reaches $15.24. These are our arithmetic on national Home Depot and Lowe's carpet and pad prices, with labor scaled to Texas's carpet installer wage (BLS, May 2025). A written quote is the only firm price.
Sources and method.The Home Depot, Installed Carpet listings by fiber (per sq ft prices of polyester, nylon, triexta, wool, olefin and berber carpet; checked 13 October 2026); Lowe's, carpet listings (nylon and polyester) (per sq ft prices of nylon and polyester carpet; checked 13 October 2026); The Home Depot, Carpet Padding listings (per sq ft prices of 6 lb and 8 lb pad, memory foam and moisture-barrier pad; checked 13 October 2026); Lowe's, carpet padding listings (per sq ft prices of rebond, fiber and foam pad; checked 13 October 2026); The Home Depot, Carpet Installation Cost Guide (average cost per sq ft: carpet $1 to $4, padding $1.01, installation $0.69 for basic install; furniture moving, removal and disposal priced separately; checked 13 October 2026); U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS May 2025, Carpet Installers (47-2041) (national and state hourly wages, read through the BLS public data API; checked 13 October 2026); U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, OEWS May 2025 state file (oesm25st.zip), Carpet Installers (47-2041) (mean hourly wage and employment for carpet installers in each state; no wage published for ME, RI, ND, WY, DC or NC; checked 15 October 2026). State figures are our arithmetic on the cited inputs: carpet and pad at national retail prices plus 10 percent for waste, plus labor from $0.69 per sq ft (Home Depot's published basic rate) to $1.60 (our estimate), multiplied by the state's mean hourly wage for carpet installers over the national mean (BLS OEWS May 2025). Removal, furniture moving and stair surcharges are not included.
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