Roof Replacement Cost in Evansville, Indiana (2026)
Budget $6,230 to $13,795 for an asphalt roof on a 2,000 sq ft Evansville house. Against the $52,251 median income in Evansville, that is 6.2 to 13.7 weeks of work. The median Evansville home dates from 1960. Starting ranges, not quotes. Prices compiled June 2026.
Short answer: The usual asphalt re-roof in Evansville is $10,000, which takes 10.0 weeks of a $52,251 median household income. Metal in Evansville: $15,130 to $35,600. Asphalt in Evansville: $6,230 to $13,795.
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Compares your price per square foot with the Evansville installed range (tear-off and underlayment included). Not a judgment of any one roofer.
What would a Evansville roof cost per month?
Example rate only; your lender's offer will differ. For a Evansville home the principal is the local range for your size and material, and this is not a loan offer in Evansville or anywhere else.
How much life is left in my Evansville roof?
Typical lifespans are published ranges for each material; for a Evansville house, real life also depends on installation, attic ventilation and the weather Evansville gets.
Price your own roof in Evansville
Evansville prices sit 11% under the national base. A typical Evansville roof is 10.0 weeks of local pay, 49th heaviest of 209 cities.
- Same job at national base rates
- Difference in Evansville
- 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 |
| Evansville cost index | Fixed for Evansville, not recalculated from wages | 0.89× |
| Evansville low | $7,000 × Evansville index 0.89 | $6,230, 6.2 weeks of Evansville pay |
| Evansville high | $15,500 × Evansville index 0.89 | $13,795, 13.7 weeks of Evansville pay |
| Evansville typical | Midpoint of the Evansville low and high, rounded to $50 | $10,000 |
- Where Evansville 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 Evansville. 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 Evansville
A typical asphalt roof in Evansville costs $10,000, which is 10.0 weeks of local pay and puts Evansville 49th of 209 for burden.
| Material | Weeks of pay | Typical | Share of home value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3-Tab Asphalt Shingles in Evansville | 8.2 | $8,250 | 6.4% |
| Architectural Asphalt Shingles in Evansville | 10.8 | $10,900 | 8.4% |
| Metal (Steel/Aluminum) in Evansville | 20.8 | $20,900 | 16.2% |
| Standing Seam Metal in Evansville | 28.4 | $28,500 | 22.1% |
| Concrete Tile in Evansville | 18.6 | $18,700 | 14.5% |
| TPO / EPDM in Evansville* | 5.3 | $5,350 | 4.1% |
* 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 Evansville
Evansville homes sit 66 years from the median build year of 1960. An original roof that old is past the 25–30 years architectural shingles are rated for, so in Evansville a repair mostly buys time. 74% of Evansville homes predate 1980, so some roofs on the street are second or third generation.
| Job | Cost | Weeks of pay |
|---|---|---|
| Small repair in Evansville | $600 | 0.60 |
| Larger repair in Evansville | $2,650 | 2.6 |
| Half of a new roof (50% rule) in Evansville | $5,000 | 5.0 |
| One year of roof life in Evansville | $364 | 0.36 |
The last row prices one year of roof life in Evansville: 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.
Evansville roof bill in weeks of pay
Weeks of median household income
The median Evansville household earns $52,251 a year, or $1,005 a week. A Evansville asphalt re-roof, typically $10,000, takes 10.0 weeks of that.
Bloomington ($10,000 typical, 99 miles away) takes 10.6 weeks of its own pay, 0.68 weeks more than Evansville.
48 of 208 other cities ask for more, 160 for less.
Sum for Evansville: $10,000 ÷ ($52,251 ÷ 52) = 10.0 weeks.
Source: Census ACS (Evansville city), 2019–2023What weather does to a Evansville 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 Evansville. Source: NASA POWER (MERRA-2/IMERG reanalysis, daily point data), 2014–2023
Evansville against nearby Indiana cities
6 neighbors share 0.89×, against Evansville's 0.89×. Closest is Bloomington, about 99 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evansville (this page) | 10.0 | — | 25 (0) | 15 |
| Bloomington roofers ≈99 mi from Evansville |
10.6 | same | 27 (0) | 34 |
| Terre Haute roofers ≈103 mi from Evansville |
12.4 | same | 26 (0) | 18 |
| Lafayette roofers ≈172 mi from Evansville |
9.8 | same | 27 (0) | 22 |
| Anderson roofers ≈179 mi from Evansville |
11.0 | same | 25 (0) | 36 |
| Kokomo roofers ≈190 mi from Evansville |
9.6 | same | 22 (0) | 10 |
| Muncie roofers ≈193 mi from Evansville |
12.0 | same | 24 (0) | 19 |
On the cost index Evansville sits at 0.89×, and a Evansville roof takes 10.0 weeks of its pay, rank 49 of 209.
What a re-roof costs against home values in Evansville
Share of median home value
In Evansville a typical re-roof takes 7.7% of the $129,100 median home value. Only 27 other cities carry a heavier ratio.
Source: Census ACS (Evansville city), 2019–2023How old the homes are
Share of homes built before 1980.
74% of Evansville homes predate 1980. A roof that Evansville homebuyers never replaced since the median build year of 1960 is 66 years old. Oldest-first, Evansville stands #23 of 209.
Source: Census ACS (Evansville city), 2019–2023If insurance covers the damage
Estimates against Evansville's $6,230–$13,795 range. General information, not legal advice. How claims work →
| Your deductible | Weeks of Evansville pay | Out-of-pocket |
|---|---|---|
| $500 | 0.50 weeks in Evansville | $500 |
| $1,000 | 1.00 weeks in Evansville | $1,000 |
| $2,500 | 2.5 weeks in Evansville | $2,500 |
The Evansville roofing market
Evansville recorded 117,298 residents at the 2020 census, making it the third-largest city in Indiana. The local economy anchors around corporate headquarters including Atlas Van Lines, Shoe Carnival, and OneMain Financial, alongside manufacturing and healthcare. Bristol-Myers Squibb and AT&T operate significant regional facilities. A large chemical and industrial manufacturing base drives steady demand for commercial and industrial roofing alongside the city's substantial residential housing stock.
Roofing companies in Evansville's county
- 16roofing establishments with paid employees
- 253paid roofing employees
- 37.5%have fewer than 5 employees
- 15.8employees per firm on average
37.5% of the county's roofing firms have under 5 staff, 26 points below the 190-city median of 64%. Firms average 15.8 paid staff.
Source: Census CBP, 2023On PickARoofer: 25 roofing contractors listed in Evansville. See them
What roofers earn here
A roofer in the Evansville metro earns a median $59,990 a year, $2,010 above the $57,980 statewide median. 16 of 141 metros pay more than the Evansville area.
Source: BLS OEWS, roofers, May 2025Storms behind Evansville roof bills
Public NOAA records for Evansville's county.
- 10days with hail of 1 inch or larger
- 2 inlargest hailstone reported
- 48days with gusts of 58 mph or more
Hail reports by month
NOAA logged 21 hail reports for Evansville's county since 2014. April is the busiest month with 7 of them, 33% of the total.
Busiest three: April 7, March 5, May 4.
No hail was reported in 6 of the 12 months (February to December, in calendar order).
The costliest storm day on record in the county was May 9, 2014, with $35,000,000 of reported property damage.
All reported hail, wind and tornado damage there adds up to at least $38,952,000. It is a floor, because many reports carry no dollar estimate.
The county saw 11 tornadoes, the strongest rated EF2.
Source: NOAA Storm Events, 2014–June 2026Reported hail locations, Vanderburgh County
- 1+ in
- 1.75+ in
- 2.75+ in
Hail reports per year
| 2017 | 2 |
|---|---|
| 2018 | 3 |
| 2019 | 2 |
| 2020 | 1 |
| 2021 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2 |
| 2023 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2 |
| 2025 | 1 |
15 recorded hail events across 9 years represented in the data, about 1.7 per represented full year. 2018 had the most events among represented full years: 3.
Source: NOAA Storm Events, 2014–June 2026 Evansville storm history · Hail risk lookup
Areas PickARoofer contractors serve in Evansville
- Downtown Evansville
- Forest Ridge Estates
- Evansville Heights
- North Heights
- Old Southside
ZIP codes: 47712, 47709, 47715, 47714, 47738.
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Data version: Prices compiled June 2026. Free to quote with credit under CC BY 4.0.