Roof Replacement Cost in Davenport, Iowa (2026)
Davenport homeowners pay $6,090 to $13,485 to put asphalt shingles on a 2,000 sq ft house, roughly 4.9 to 10.9 weeks of the $64,497 a year the median Davenport household takes in. The median Davenport home dates from 1966. Starting ranges, not quotes. Prices compiled June 2026.
Short answer: Plan on about $9,800 for asphalt shingles in Davenport, or 7.9 weeks of the median household's $64,497. Metal roofs in Davenport cost $14,790 to $34,800; asphalt ranges from $6,090 to $13,485.
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Compares your price per square foot with the Davenport installed range (tear-off and underlayment included). Not a judgment of any one roofer.
What would a Davenport roof cost per month?
Example rate only; your lender's offer will differ. For a Davenport home the principal is the local range for your size and material, and this is not a loan offer in Davenport or anywhere else.
How much life is left in my Davenport roof?
Typical lifespans are published ranges for each material; for a Davenport house, real life also depends on installation, attic ventilation and the weather Davenport gets.
Price your own roof in Davenport
Davenport prices sit 13% under the national base. A typical Davenport roof is 7.9 weeks of local pay, 149th heaviest of 209 cities.
- Same job at national base rates
- Difference in Davenport
- 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 |
| Davenport cost index | Fixed for Davenport, not recalculated from wages | 0.87× |
| Davenport low | $7,000 × Davenport index 0.87 | $6,090, 4.9 weeks of Davenport pay |
| Davenport high | $15,500 × Davenport index 0.87 | $13,485, 10.9 weeks of Davenport pay |
| Davenport typical | Midpoint of the Davenport low and high, rounded to $50 | $9,800 |
- Where Davenport 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 Davenport. 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 Davenport
A typical asphalt roof in Davenport costs $9,800, which is 7.9 weeks of local pay and puts Davenport 149th of 209 for burden.
| Material | Weeks of pay | Typical | Share of home value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3-Tab Asphalt Shingles in Davenport | 6.5 | $8,050 | 4.9% |
| Architectural Asphalt Shingles in Davenport | 8.6 | $10,650 | 6.5% |
| Metal (Steel/Aluminum) in Davenport | 16.5 | $20,450 | 12.6% |
| Standing Seam Metal in Davenport | 22.5 | $27,850 | 17.1% |
| Concrete Tile in Davenport | 14.7 | $18,250 | 11.2% |
| TPO / EPDM in Davenport* | 4.2 | $5,200 | 3.2% |
* 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
Repair or replace in Davenport
The median Davenport home was built in 1966, so an original roof would be 60 years old, past the 25–30 years architectural shingles are rated for. Here a repair mostly buys time. 70.2% of Davenport homes predate 1980, so some roofs on the street are second or third generation.
| Job | Cost | Weeks of pay |
|---|---|---|
| Small repair in Davenport | $550 | 0.44 |
| Larger repair in Davenport | $2,600 | 2.1 |
| Half of a new roof (50% rule) in Davenport | $4,900 | 4.0 |
| One year of roof life in Davenport | $356 | 0.29 |
The last row prices one year of roof life in Davenport: 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.
What weather does to a Davenport 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 Davenport. Source: NASA POWER (MERRA-2/IMERG reanalysis, daily point data), 2014–2023
If insurance covers the damage
Estimates against Davenport's $6,090–$13,485 range. General information, not legal advice. How claims work →
| Your deductible | Weeks of Davenport pay | Out-of-pocket |
|---|---|---|
| $500 | 0.40 weeks in Davenport | $500 |
| $1,000 | 0.81 weeks in Davenport | $1,000 |
| $2,500 | 2.0 weeks in Davenport | $2,500 |
Storms behind Davenport roof bills
Public NOAA records for Davenport's county.
- 25days with hail of 1 inch or larger
- 4 inlargest hailstone reported
- 73days with gusts of 58 mph or more
Hail reports by month
NOAA logged 128 hail reports for Davenport's county since 2014. April is the busiest month with 63 of them, 49% of the total.
Busiest three: April 63, May 17, June 17.
No hail was reported in 3 of the 12 months (January to December, in calendar order).
The costliest storm day on record in the county was July 12, 2016, with $2,000,000 of reported property damage.
All reported hail, wind and tornado damage there adds up to at least $2,089,000. It is a floor, because many reports carry no dollar estimate.
The county saw 23 tornadoes, the strongest rated EF2.
Source: NOAA Storm Events, 2014–June 2026Reported hail locations, Scott County
- 1+ in
- 1.75+ in
- 2.75+ in
Hail reports per year
| 2017 | 8 |
|---|---|
| 2018 | 6 |
| 2019 | 6 |
| 2020 | 26 |
| 2022 | 2 |
| 2023 | 39 |
| 2024 | 13 |
| 2025 | 2 |
| 2026* | 6 |
108 recorded hail events across 8 full years plus 2026 to June represented in the data. 2023 had the most events among represented full years: 39.
The last bar is a partial year.
Source: NOAA Storm Events, 2014–June 2026 Hail risk lookup
Davenport against nearby Iowa cities
6 neighbors share 0.87×, against Davenport's 0.87×. Closest is Iowa City, about 50 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Davenport (this page) | 7.9 | — | 29 (0) | 108 |
| Iowa City roofers ≈50 mi from Davenport |
8.9 | same | 23 (0) | 91 |
| Cedar Rapids roofers ≈64 mi from Davenport |
7.5 | same | 29 (0) | 131 |
| Dubuque roofers ≈68 mi from Davenport |
7.8 | same | 20 (0) | 48 |
| Waterloo roofers ≈113 mi from Davenport |
9.0 | same | 27 (0) | 59 |
| Ames roofers ≈161 mi from Davenport |
8.5 | same | 23 (0) | 126 |
| Council Bluffs roofers ≈273 mi from Davenport |
8.0 | same | 18 (0) | 70 |
On the cost index Davenport sits at 0.87×, and a Davenport roof takes 7.9 weeks of its pay, rank 149 of 209.
What a re-roof costs against home values in Davenport
Share of median home value
In Davenport a typical re-roof takes 6.0% of the $162,900 median home value. 48 cities carry a heavier ratio and 160 a lighter one.
Source: Census ACS (Davenport city), 2019–2023How old the homes are
Share of homes built before 1980.
70.2% of Davenport homes predate 1980. The median Davenport home was built in 1966, so a roof never replaced there is 60 years old. Oldest-first, Davenport stands #39 of 209.
Source: Census ACS (Davenport city), 2019–2023The Davenport roofing market
Davenport's 2020 census population was 101,724, Iowa's third-largest city, with a 2024 estimate of 100,938 showing stable demand. Manufacturing anchors the economy with over 7,600 jobs; John Deere operates a Davenport plant with 948 workers and 7,200 across the broader Quad Cities. Genesis Health System employs 4,900 in Davenport alone. Von Maur department store is headquartered here, operating 24 stores nationally. This diversified industrial and healthcare employment base supports consistent homeowner investment in repair and replacement roofing across Davenport's mature housing stock.
Roofing companies in Davenport's county
- 23roofing establishments with paid employees
- 197paid roofing employees
- 60.9%have fewer than 5 employees
- 8.6employees per firm on average
60.9% of the county's roofing firms have under 5 staff, 3 points below the 190-city median of 64%. Firms average 8.6 paid staff.
Source: Census CBP, 2023On PickARoofer: 29 roofing contractors listed in Davenport. See them
What roofers earn here
A roofer in the Davenport metro earns a median $48,250 a year, $410 below the $48,660 statewide median. 66 of 141 metros pay more than the Davenport area.
Source: BLS OEWS, roofers, May 2025License and permit in Iowa
Davenport roofers: State contractor registration.
Permit: Davenport's building office. General information, not legal advice.
Source: verification methodDavenport roof bill in weeks of pay
Weeks of median household income
The median Davenport household earns $64,497 a year, or $1,240 a week. A Davenport asphalt re-roof, typically $9,800, takes 7.9 weeks of that.
Iowa City ($9,800 typical, 50 miles away) takes 8.9 weeks of its own pay, 0.96 weeks more than Davenport.
148 of 208 other cities ask for more, 60 for less.
Sum for Davenport: $9,800 ÷ ($64,497 ÷ 52) = 7.9 weeks.
Source: Census ACS (Davenport city), 2019–2023Areas PickARoofer contractors serve in Davenport
- RiverQuarters
- Boulevard Park
- Central Park East
- East End
- West Davenport
ZIP codes: 52801, 52803, 52804, 52806, 52807.
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