Roof Replacement Cost in Flint, Michigan (2026)
Flint homeowners pay $6,510 to $14,415 to put asphalt shingles on a 2,000 sq ft house, roughly 9.4 to 20.7 weeks of the $36,194 a year the median Flint household takes in. The median Flint home dates from 1954. Starting ranges, not quotes. Prices compiled June 2026.
Short answer: Plan on about $10,450 for asphalt shingles in Flint, or 15.0 weeks of the median household's $36,194. Metal roofs in Flint cost $15,810 to $37,200; asphalt ranges from $6,510 to $14,415.
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Compares your price per square foot with the Flint installed range (tear-off and underlayment included). Not a judgment of any one roofer.
What would a Flint roof cost per month?
Example rate only; your lender's offer will differ. For a Flint home the principal is the local range for your size and material, and this is not a loan offer in Flint or anywhere else.
How much life is left in my Flint roof?
Typical lifespans are published ranges for each material; for a Flint house, real life also depends on installation, attic ventilation and the weather Flint gets.
Price your own roof in Flint
Flint prices sit 7% under the national base. A typical Flint roof is 15.0 weeks of local pay, 2nd heaviest of 209 cities.
- Same job at national base rates
- Difference in Flint
- 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 |
| Flint cost index | Fixed for Flint, not recalculated from wages | 0.93× |
| Flint low | $7,000 × Flint index 0.93 | $6,510, 9.4 weeks of Flint pay |
| Flint high | $15,500 × Flint index 0.93 | $14,415, 20.7 weeks of Flint pay |
| Flint typical | Midpoint of the Flint low and high, rounded to $50 | $10,450 |
- Where Flint 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 Flint. 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 Flint
A typical asphalt roof in Flint costs $10,450, which is 15.0 weeks of local pay and puts Flint 2nd of 209 for burden.
| Material | Weeks of pay | Typical | Share of home value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3-Tab Asphalt Shingles in Flint | 12.4 | $8,600 | 18.1% |
| Architectural Asphalt Shingles in Flint | 16.4 | $11,400 | 23.9% |
| Metal (Steel/Aluminum) in Flint | 31.4 | $21,850 | 45.9% |
| Standing Seam Metal in Flint | 42.7 | $29,750 | 62.5% |
| Concrete Tile in Flint | 28.1 | $19,550 | 41.1% |
| TPO / EPDM in Flint* | 8.0 | $5,600 | 11.8% |
* 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
Repair or replace in Flint
The median Flint home was built in 1954, so an original roof would be 72 years old, past the 25–30 years architectural shingles are rated for. Here a repair mostly buys time. 93.2% of Flint homes predate 1980, so some roofs on the street are second or third generation.
| Job | Cost | Weeks of pay |
|---|---|---|
| Small repair in Flint | $600 | 0.86 |
| Larger repair in Flint | $2,800 | 4.0 |
| Half of a new roof (50% rule) in Flint | $5,200 | 7.5 |
| One year of roof life in Flint | $380 | 0.55 |
The last row prices one year of roof life in Flint: 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.
Flint roof bill in weeks of pay
Weeks of median household income
The median Flint household earns $36,194 a year, or $696 a week. A Flint asphalt re-roof, typically $10,450, takes 15.0 weeks of that.
Saginaw ($10,450 typical, 31 miles away) takes 14.6 weeks of its own pay, 0.44 weeks fewer than Flint.
Only 1 of 208 other cities ask for more.
Sum for Flint: $10,450 ÷ ($36,194 ÷ 52) = 15.0 weeks.
Source: Census ACS (Flint city), 2019–2023What weather does to a Flint 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 Flint. Source: NASA POWER (MERRA-2/IMERG reanalysis, daily point data), 2014–2023
Flint against nearby Michigan cities
6 neighbors share 0.93×, against Flint's 0.93×. Closest is Saginaw, about 31 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flint (this page) | 15.0 | — | 25 (3) | 18 |
| Saginaw roofers ≈31 mi from Flint |
14.6 | same | 20 (3) | 11 |
| Lansing roofers ≈48 mi from Flint |
10.4 | same | 27 (5) | 17 |
| Ann Arbor roofers ≈51 mi from Flint |
6.7 | same | 28 (1) | 43 |
| Battle Creek roofers ≈89 mi from Flint |
10.5 | same | 22 (6) | 7 |
| Grand Rapids roofers ≈100 mi from Flint |
8.3 | same | 30 (5) | 15 |
| Kalamazoo roofers ≈108 mi from Flint |
11.1 | same | 24 (8) | 10 |
On the cost index Flint sits at 0.93×, and a Flint roof takes 15.0 weeks of its pay, rank 2 of 209.
What a re-roof costs against home values in Flint
Share of median home value
In Flint a typical re-roof takes 22.0% of the $47,600 median home value. No other city we cover carries a heavier ratio.
Source: Census ACS (Flint city), 2019–2023How old the homes are
Share of homes built before 1980.
93.2% of Flint homes predate 1980. The median Flint home was built in 1954, so a roof never replaced there is 72 years old. Oldest-first, Flint stands #10 of 209.
Source: Census ACS (Flint city), 2019–2023If insurance covers the damage
Estimates against Flint's $6,510–$14,415 range. General information, not legal advice. How claims work →
| Your deductible | Weeks of Flint pay | Out-of-pocket |
|---|---|---|
| $500 | 0.72 weeks in Flint | $500 |
| $1,000 | 1.4 weeks in Flint | $1,000 |
| $2,500 | 3.6 weeks in Flint | $2,500 |
The Flint roofing market
Flint's 2020 census population was 81,252, down sharply from a 1960 peak near 200,000. GM employment fell from 80,000 in 1978 to under 8,000 by 2010, leaving a large stock of aging housing. Median household income was about $36,000 in recent years with a high poverty rate, meaning many homeowners rely on insurance claims and assistance programs rather than discretionary budgets to fund roof work. Ongoing downtown renovations signal selective reinvestment -- a market where insurance-driven replacement work dominates.
Roofing companies in Flint's county
- 16roofing establishments with paid employees
- 107paid roofing employees
- 62.5%have fewer than 5 employees
- 6.7employees per firm on average
62.5% of the county's roofing firms have under 5 staff, 1 points below the 190-city median of 64%. Firms average 6.7 paid staff.
Source: Census CBP, 2023On PickARoofer: 25 roofing contractors listed in Flint, 3 verified against a public registry. See them
What roofers earn here
A roofer in the Flint metro earns a median $70,760 a year, $11,230 above the $59,530 statewide median. 6 of 141 metros pay more than the Flint area.
Source: BLS OEWS, roofers, May 2025Storms behind Flint roof bills
Public NOAA records for Flint's county.
- 8days with hail of 1 inch or larger
- 2.75 inlargest hailstone reported
- 50days with gusts of 58 mph or more
Hail reports by month
NOAA logged 21 hail reports for Flint's county since 2014. July is the busiest month with 9 of them, 43% of the total.
Busiest three: July 9, August 5, April 2.
No hail was reported in 6 of the 12 months (January to December, in calendar order).
The costliest storm day on record in the county was July 20, 2023, with $20,000,000 of reported property damage.
All reported hail, wind and tornado damage there adds up to at least $22,315,500. It is a floor, because many reports carry no dollar estimate.
The county saw 7 tornadoes, the strongest rated EF2.
Source: NOAA Storm Events, 2014–June 2026Reported hail locations, Genesee County
- 1+ in
- 1.75+ in
- 2.75+ in
Hail reports per year
| 2017 | 2 |
|---|---|
| 2020 | 4 |
| 2021 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 |
| 2023 | 7 |
| 2024 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2 |
18 recorded hail events across 7 years represented in the data. 2023 had the most events among represented full years: 7.
The last bar is a partial year.
Source: NOAA Storm Events, 2014–June 2026 Flint storm history · Hail risk lookup
Areas PickARoofer contractors serve in Flint
- Flint Township
- Dunbarville
- North Flint
- South Flint
- Delaney Park
ZIP codes: 48502, 48617, 48539, 48542, 48561.
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Data version: Prices compiled June 2026. Free to quote with credit under CC BY 4.0.