What does a roof replacement cost?
There is no single answer, and any site that gives you one is averaging away the things that actually determine your price: where you live, how big and how steep the roof is, what is already on it, and what is going back on. Below are modelled national reference figures, then the local pages where those figures get specific.
How reliable is this?
Updated as data lands
- Labour
- Government data
- Materials
- Partly observed
- Local coverage
- 17 cities
- Geometry
- Exact
Bureau of Labor Statistics wage release for May 2025, occupation 47-2181 (roofers), across 15 metro areas.
2 of 24 material rows come from observed prices; the rest are modelled.
Metro-level pricing in 15 markets and written local guidance for 17 cities. Anywhere else falls back to national figures, and the confidence score says so.
Pitch multipliers, roof area and material quantities are arithmetic, not estimates.
About 65% of a typical re-roof is still priced from modelled rows, so every estimate is capped at a confidence of 60 until that changes. We would rather show you that than a confident-looking number we cannot stand behind. Sources and licences
By roof size
National reference ranges
Architectural asphalt shingle, moderate pitch, one existing layer torn off, average site access. National figures - your city page will be more specific.
Small home
1,400 sq ft roof
$8,250
to $13,150
$725 per square
Average home
2,000 sq ft roof
$11,200
to $17,750
$685 per square
Large home
2,800 sq ft roof
$15,600
to $24,700
$684 per square
Very large home
3,800 sq ft roof
$20,400
to $32,350
$659 per square
By material
What the material choice actually costs you
Same 2,000 sq ft roof, same everything else. Service life matters as much as price: the cheapest roof per dollar is rarely the cheapest per year.
3-tab asphalt shingle 
Architectural asphalt shingle 
Impact-resistant shingle (Class 4) 
Premium / designer asphalt shingle 
Exposed-fastener metal panel 
Standing seam metal 
Concrete tile 
Clay tile 
Synthetic slate / composite shake 
Natural slate 
Cedar shake 
TPO single-ply membrane (low slope) 
Modified bitumen (low slope) 
Sprayed polyurethane foam with coating (low slope)
| Material | Estimated range | Per square | Service life | Cost per year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Architectural asphalt shingleThe default choice for most US replacements. Laminated construction, better wind ratings and a dimensional appearance. | $11,200 – $17,750 | $685 | 20–30 yrs | $548 |
 Impact-resistant shingle (Class 4)Rated to UL 2218 Class 4 for impact. Relevant in hail markets, where many insurers offer a premium discount. Confirm the discount with your carrier before paying the upgrade. | $13,750 – $22,200 | $858 | 25–35 yrs | $572 |
 Standing seam metalConcealed-fastener metal panels. Roughly double the cost of architectural asphalt with two to three times the service life. | $21,150 – $43,000 | $1,453 | 40–60 yrs | $581 |
 Concrete tileDominant in the Southwest and much of Florida. The tile usually outlives the underlayment beneath it, which is why lift-and-relay is the common job. | $22,350 – $39,100 | $1,448 | 40–60 yrs | $579 |
 Clay tileLong-lived and heavy. Structural capacity must be confirmed when converting from a lighter material. | $26,000 – $53,150 | $1,795 | 50–75 yrs | $574 |
 Natural slateThe longest-lived roof available and the most expensive. Requires a specialist installer and confirmed structural capacity. | $36,850 – $75,650 | $2,558 | 75–150 yrs | $455 |
Cost per year divides the typical estimate by the midpoint of the expected service life. It ignores the time value of money and assumes you keep the house, so treat it as a way of ranking options rather than as a financial calculation.
Local pages
Roofing costs by city
Each of these exists because there is something locally specific worth knowing - code, climate, permitting, or the materials that are actually common there.
Austin roofing costs
Austin combines Central Texas hail exposure with a labour market that has been persistently tight, which tends to place ...
Boston roofing costs
Boston roofing is defined by snow load, ice damming and an unusually old housing stock. The triple-decker is the local a...
Cherry Hill roofing costs
Cherry Hill is a suburban South Jersey market inside the Philadelphia metro, and the roofing economics look nothing like...
Chicago roofing costs
Chicago has the highest median roofer wage of any large metro in our coverage - well above Phoenix or Dallas - and that ...
Dallas roofing costs
Dallas-Fort Worth sits in one of the most active hail corridors in the United States, and that single fact explains most...
Detroit roofing costs
Detroit roofing is mostly sloped asphalt on detached single-family houses, which makes it one of the more straightforwar...
Houston roofing costs
Houston roofs fail from water and wind rather than from hail alone. Sustained humidity, heavy rainfall and hurricane-sea...
Jersey City roofing costs
Jersey City roofing is dominated by two building types with very different economics: pre-war row and brownstone-style h...
Las Vegas roofing costs
Las Vegas is a heat-driven market with a housing stock dominated by tile and low-slope construction from the region's ra...
Los Angeles roofing costs
Los Angeles is the most internally varied market in this launch set. A flat-roofed bungalow in the basin, a tile roof in...
Miami roofing costs
Miami-Dade is the strictest residential roofing jurisdiction in the United States, and it is the main reason Miami price...
Newark roofing costs
Newark roofing prices are set by three things that rarely appear together elsewhere: some of the highest roofing labour ...
Orlando roofing costs
Orlando shares Florida's regulatory framework with Tampa but sits inland, in a lower design wind speed zone than the coa...
Philadelphia roofing costs
Philadelphia roofing is row-house roofing. The dominant job in the city is not a sloped shingle replacement but a flat o...
Phoenix roofing costs
Phoenix roofing prices are shaped less by weather damage than by heat. Sustained summer roof-deck temperatures age aspha...
San Diego roofing costs
San Diego has one of the gentlest roofing climates in the country and one of the most expensive labour markets, so local...
Tampa roofing costs
Florida is the most heavily regulated roofing market in this launch set, and Tampa prices reflect it. Wind-borne debris ...
Ten cities is deliberate. We would rather publish ten pages that tell you something true about your market than a thousand that reword the same national average. Cities are added when there is local data and local content to justify one, and the calculator already works for every US ZIP code regardless.