Roof Replacement Cost in Bloomington, Indiana (2026)
Putting asphalt shingles on a 2,000 sq ft Bloomington, IN home costs $6,230 to $13,795, which a Bloomington, IN household on $48,918 a year earns back in 6.6 to 14.7 weeks. By that measure Bloomington, IN sits 30th of 209 cities we price. Starting ranges, not quotes. Prices compiled June 2026.
Short answer: Bloomington, IN asphalt re-roofs land at $10,000 for the typical job (10.6 weeks of local pay at $48,918 a year). Expect $6,230 to $13,795 for asphalt and $15,130 to $35,600 for metal in Bloomington, IN.
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Compares your price per square foot with the Bloomington, IN installed range (tear-off and underlayment included). Not a judgment of any one roofer.
What would a Bloomington, IN roof cost per month?
Example rate only; your lender's offer will differ. For a Bloomington, IN home the principal is the local range for your size and material, and this is not a loan offer in Bloomington, IN or anywhere else.
How much life is left in my Bloomington, IN roof?
Typical lifespans are published ranges for each material; for a Bloomington, IN house, real life also depends on installation, attic ventilation and the weather Bloomington, IN gets.
Price your own roof in Bloomington
Bloomington, IN prices sit 11% under the national base. A typical Bloomington, IN roof is 10.6 weeks of local pay, 30th heaviest of 209 cities.
- Same job at national base rates
- Difference in Bloomington
- Extra tear-off included
How we calculated this
One sum produces the asphalt shingle range at the top of this page. You can redo it with a calculator.
| Step | What goes in | Value |
|---|---|---|
| National base, low end | 3-Tab Asphalt Shingles, $3.50 per sq ft × 2,000 sq ft | $7,000 |
| National base, high end | Architectural Asphalt Shingles, $7.75 per sq ft × 2,000 sq ft | $15,500 |
| Bloomington, IN cost index | Fixed for Bloomington, IN, not recalculated from wages | 0.89× |
| Bloomington, IN low | $7,000 × Bloomington, IN index 0.89 | $6,230, 6.6 weeks of Bloomington, IN pay |
| Bloomington, IN high | $15,500 × Bloomington, IN index 0.89 | $13,795, 14.7 weeks of Bloomington, IN pay |
| Bloomington, IN typical | Midpoint of the Bloomington, IN low and high, rounded to $50 | $10,000 |
- Where Bloomington, IN sits. The median index across the 209 cities we price is 0.89×. 186 of them are under 1.00× and 23 are over it.
- Roofer pay near Bloomington, IN. Shown above beside the price, from the BLS source. The index is not calculated from it.
Prices compiled June 2026, BLS pay OEWS May 2025. This is an estimate, not a quote. Why the range has a low and a high end and how the other materials are priced: full method, inputs and limits.
Cost by roofing material in Bloomington, IN
A typical asphalt roof in Bloomington, IN costs $10,000, which is 10.6 weeks of local pay and puts Bloomington, IN 30th of 209 for burden.
| Material | Weeks of pay | Typical | Share of home value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3-Tab Asphalt Shingles in Bloomington, IN | 8.8 | $8,250 | 2.8% |
| Architectural Asphalt Shingles in Bloomington, IN | 11.6 | $10,900 | 3.8% |
| Metal (Steel/Aluminum) in Bloomington, IN | 22.2 | $20,900 | 7.2% |
| Standing Seam Metal in Bloomington, IN | 30.3 | $28,500 | 9.8% |
| Concrete Tile in Bloomington, IN | 19.9 | $18,700 | 6.5% |
| TPO / EPDM in Bloomington, IN* | 5.7 | $5,350 | 1.8% |
* Flat-roof prices are per 1,000 sq ft, not for a whole 2,000 sq ft house. Rated life: 3-Tab Asphalt Shingles 15–20 years; Architectural Asphalt Shingles 25–30 years; Metal (Steel/Aluminum) 40–70 years; Standing Seam Metal 50–70 years; Concrete Tile 40–50 years; TPO / EPDM (flat roofs) 15–25 years. How we calculated these prices · Sources
Bloomington, IN roof bill in weeks of pay
Weeks of median household income
The median Bloomington, IN household earns $48,918 a year, or $941 a week. A Bloomington, IN asphalt re-roof, typically $10,000, takes 10.6 weeks of that.
Terre Haute ($10,000 typical, 52 miles away) takes 12.4 weeks of its own pay, 1.8 weeks more than Bloomington, IN.
29 of 208 other cities ask for more, 179 for less.
Sum for Bloomington, IN: $10,000 ÷ ($48,918 ÷ 52) = 10.6 weeks.
Source: Census ACS (Bloomington city), 2019–2023What weather does to a Bloomington, IN roof
- Freeze-thaw days. Water gets under shingles at night and expands as ice.
- Days at 90F or hotter. Heat bakes the oils out of asphalt and loosens sealant strips.
- Days with an inch of rain. Heavy rain tests flashing, valleys and gutters.
- Yearly precipitation. More water means more years of wet decking.
Rank 1 is the most days or inches among the cities we cover. Values are 2014–2023 averages of a 50 km grid cell around Bloomington, IN. Source: NASA POWER (MERRA-2/IMERG reanalysis, daily point data), 2014–2023
If insurance covers the damage
Estimates against Bloomington, IN's $6,230–$13,795 range. General information, not legal advice. How claims work →
| Your deductible | Weeks of Bloomington, IN pay | Out-of-pocket |
|---|---|---|
| $500 | 0.53 weeks in Bloomington, IN | $500 |
| $1,000 | 1.1 weeks in Bloomington, IN | $1,000 |
| $2,500 | 2.7 weeks in Bloomington, IN | $2,500 |
Storms behind Bloomington, IN roof bills
Public NOAA records for Bloomington, IN's county.
- 21days with hail of 1 inch or larger
- 2.75 inlargest hailstone reported
- 38days with gusts of 58 mph or more
Hail reports by month
NOAA logged 44 hail reports for Bloomington, IN's county since 2014. April is the busiest month with 11 of them, 25% of the total.
Busiest three: April 11, May 10, June 8.
No hail was reported in 5 of the 12 months (January to December, in calendar order).
The costliest storm day on record in the county was February 19, 2026, with $20,000,000 of reported property damage.
All reported hail, wind and tornado damage there adds up to at least $31,190,250. It is a floor, because many reports carry no dollar estimate.
The county saw 7 tornadoes, the strongest rated EF3.
Source: NOAA Storm Events, 2014–June 2026Reported hail locations, Monroe County
- 1+ in
- 1.75+ in
- 2.75+ in
Hail reports per year
| 2017 | 10 |
|---|---|
| 2019 | 2 |
| 2020 | 1 |
| 2021 | 3 |
| 2022 | 1 |
| 2023 | 4 |
| 2024 | 3 |
| 2025 | 3 |
| 2026* | 7 |
34 recorded hail events across 8 full years plus 2026 to June represented in the data. 2017 had the most events among represented full years: 10.
The last bar is a partial year.
Source: NOAA Storm Events, 2014–June 2026 Hail risk lookup
Bloomington, IN against nearby Indiana cities
6 neighbors share 0.89×, against Bloomington's 0.89×. Closest is Terre Haute, about 52 mi out.
Distances are to scale. Dot size is weeks of local pay for a typical asphalt roof, so a bigger dot means a heavier bill for that city's households.
| City | Weeks of pay | Price vs here | Contractors (verified) | Hail events, since 2017 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bloomington, IN (this page) | 10.6 | — | 27 (0) | 34 |
| Terre Haute roofers ≈52 mi from Bloomington, IN |
12.4 | same | 26 (0) | 18 |
| Anderson roofers ≈79 mi from Bloomington, IN |
11.0 | same | 25 (0) | 36 |
| Lafayette roofers ≈88 mi from Bloomington, IN |
9.8 | same | 27 (0) | 22 |
| Kokomo roofers ≈94 mi from Bloomington, IN |
9.6 | same | 22 (0) | 10 |
| Muncie roofers ≈94 mi from Bloomington, IN |
12.0 | same | 24 (0) | 19 |
| Evansville roofers ≈99 mi from Bloomington, IN |
10.0 | same | 25 (0) | 15 |
On the cost index Bloomington, IN sits at 0.89×, and a Bloomington, IN roof takes 10.6 weeks of its pay, rank 30 of 209.
What a re-roof costs against home values in Bloomington, IN
Share of median home value
In Bloomington, IN a typical re-roof takes 3.5% of the $289,700 median home value. 170 cities carry a heavier ratio and 38 a lighter one.
Source: Census ACS (Bloomington city), 2019–2023How old the homes are
Share of homes built before 1980.
44.3% of Bloomington, IN homes predate 1980. A roof that Bloomington, IN homebuyers never replaced since the median build year of 1984 is 42 years old. Oldest-first, Bloomington, IN stands #134 of 209.
Source: Census ACS (Bloomington city), 2019–2023The Bloomington, IN roofing market
Bloomington's 2020 census population was 79,168, anchored by Indiana University, which dominates local employment and drives a large rental-housing stock. Cook Group, a major medical device manufacturer headquartered in the city, is another significant employer. Life-sciences employment runs well above the national average, and the technology sector has grown sharply in recent years. The mix of dense university-era housing, growing tech campus construction, and steady medical-industry facilities creates sustained demand across both residential and commercial roofing segments.
Roofing companies in Bloomington, IN's county
- 9roofing establishments with paid employees
- 137paid roofing employees
- 15.2employees per firm on average
Firms average 15.2 paid staff.
Source: Census CBP, 2023On PickARoofer: 27 roofing contractors listed in Bloomington, IN. See them
What roofers earn here
A roofer in the Bloomington, IN metro earns a median $49,530 a year, $8,450 below the $57,980 statewide median. 44 of 141 metros pay more than the Bloomington, IN area.
Source: BLS OEWS, roofers, May 2025Repair or replace in Bloomington, IN
Bloomington, IN homes sit 42 years from the median build year of 1984. An original roof that old is past the 25–30 years architectural shingles are rated for, so in Bloomington, IN a repair mostly buys time. 44.3% of Bloomington, IN homes predate 1980, so some roofs on the street are second or third generation.
| Job | Cost | Weeks of pay |
|---|---|---|
| Small repair in Bloomington, IN | $600 | 0.64 |
| Larger repair in Bloomington, IN | $2,650 | 2.8 |
| Half of a new roof (50% rule) in Bloomington, IN | $5,000 | 5.3 |
| One year of roof life in Bloomington, IN | $364 | 0.39 |
The last row prices one year of roof life in Bloomington, IN: a typical architectural roof divided by its rated 25–30 years. A repair is worth paying for when it buys at least as many years as its cost divided by that figure. The 50% rule is a common rule of thumb, not a law.
Areas PickARoofer contractors serve in Bloomington, IN
- Downtown Bloomington
- Bloomington Normal
- Spring Hill
- Monon Village
- Wesleyan Heights
ZIP codes: 47401, 47403, 47404, 47405, 47421.
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