Consider the Dunkl Laplacian \(\Delta _k\) associated with a root system \(\Phi\) in \(\mathbb {R}^d\) and a nonnegative multiplicity function k on \(\Phi\) . By following Stein (Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 73(7):2174–2175, 1976) and Strichartz (Trans Am Math Soc 148(2):461–471, 1970), we introduce and investigate a family of \(\Delta _k\) -averaging operators parameterized by \(\alpha \ge 0\) . This family includes the \(\Delta _k\) -spherical and \(\Delta _k\) -volume mean operators as special cases. We prove that, for each order \(\alpha \ge 0\) , the averaging operator of order \(\alpha\) satisfies a \(\Delta _k\) -Pizzetti formula. In addition, we establish that this family of the \(\alpha\) -averaging operators provides various mean value characterizations of harmonic, polyharmonic, subharmonic and metaharmonic functions in the Dunkl setting. Furthermore, some of these characterizations yield new mean value properties for the usual classes of such functions associated with the standard Laplace operator.