Roof Replacement Cost in Joliet, Illinois (2026)
Quotes for a 2,000 sq ft asphalt roof in Joliet usually land between $6,790 to $15,035. On Joliet's median household income of $88,026 a year that works out to 4.0 to 8.9 weeks of pay. Joliet gets 98 freeze-thaw days, 30th highest of 209. Starting ranges, not quotes. Prices compiled June 2026.
Short answer: A typical Joliet asphalt roof costs $10,900. That is 6.4 weeks of pay for a household earning $88,026 a year. Metal in Joliet runs $16,490 to $38,800, against $6,790 to $15,035 for asphalt.
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Compares your price per square foot with the Joliet installed range (tear-off and underlayment included). Not a judgment of any one roofer.
What would a Joliet roof cost per month?
Example rate only; your lender's offer will differ. For a Joliet home the principal is the local range for your size and material, and this is not a loan offer in Joliet or anywhere else.
How much life is left in my Joliet roof?
Typical lifespans are published ranges for each material; for a Joliet house, real life also depends on installation, attic ventilation and the weather Joliet gets.
Price your own roof in Joliet
Joliet prices sit 3% under the national base. A typical Joliet roof is 6.4 weeks of local pay, 192nd heaviest of 209 cities.
- Same job at national base rates
- Difference in Joliet
- 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 |
| Joliet cost index | Fixed for Joliet, not recalculated from wages | 0.97× |
| Joliet low | $7,000 × Joliet index 0.97 | $6,790, 4.0 weeks of Joliet pay |
| Joliet high | $15,500 × Joliet index 0.97 | $15,035, 8.9 weeks of Joliet pay |
| Joliet typical | Midpoint of the Joliet low and high, rounded to $50 | $10,900 |
- Where Joliet 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 Joliet. 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 Joliet
A typical asphalt roof in Joliet costs $10,900, which is 6.4 weeks of local pay and puts Joliet 192nd of 209 for burden.
| Material | Weeks of pay | Typical | Share of home value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3-Tab Asphalt Shingles in Joliet | 5.3 | $8,950 | 3.6% |
| Architectural Asphalt Shingles in Joliet | 7.0 | $11,900 | 4.8% |
| Metal (Steel/Aluminum) in Joliet | 13.5 | $22,800 | 9.2% |
| Standing Seam Metal in Joliet | 18.3 | $31,050 | 12.5% |
| Concrete Tile in Joliet | 12.0 | $20,350 | 8.2% |
| TPO / EPDM in Joliet* | 3.4 | $5,800 | 2.3% |
* 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
What weather does to a Joliet 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 Joliet. Source: NASA POWER (MERRA-2/IMERG reanalysis, daily point data), 2014–2023
Storms behind Joliet roof bills
Public NOAA records for Joliet's county.
- 36days with hail of 1 inch or larger
- 3 inlargest hailstone reported
- 87days with gusts of 58 mph or more
Hail reports by month
NOAA logged 111 hail reports for Joliet's county since 2014. March is the busiest month with 28 of them, 25% of the total.
Busiest three: March 28, June 25, February 17.
No hail was reported in 4 of the 12 months (January to December, in calendar order).
The costliest storm day on record in the county was June 30, 2014, with $755,000 of reported property damage.
All reported hail, wind and tornado damage there adds up to at least $1,721,500. It is a floor, because many reports carry no dollar estimate.
The county saw 38 tornadoes, the strongest rated EF2.
Source: NOAA Storm Events, 2014–June 2026Hail reports per year
| 2017 | 21 |
|---|---|
| 2019 | 19 |
| 2020 | 5 |
| 2022 | 2 |
| 2023 | 12 |
| 2024 | 15 |
| 2025 | 2 |
| 2026* | 17 |
93 recorded hail events across 7 full years plus 2026 to June represented in the data. 2017 had the most events among represented full years: 21.
The last bar is a partial year.
Source: NOAA Storm Events, 2014–June 2026 Joliet storm history · Hail risk lookup
If insurance covers the damage
Estimates against Joliet's $6,790–$15,035 range. General information, not legal advice. How claims work →
| Your deductible | Weeks of Joliet pay | Out-of-pocket |
|---|---|---|
| $500 | 0.30 weeks in Joliet | $500 |
| $1,000 | 0.59 weeks in Joliet | $1,000 |
| $2,500 | 1.5 weeks in Joliet | $2,500 |
Joliet against nearby Illinois cities
Neighbors run from 0.93× to 0.97× against Joliet's 0.97×. Closest: Rockford, about 73 mi, at $6,790 to $15,035.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joliet (this page) | 6.4 | — | 27 (12) | 93 |
| Rockford roofers ≈73 mi from Joliet |
10.6 | same | 30 (18) | 67 |
| Bloomington roofers ≈86 mi from Joliet |
7.5 | same | 23 (11) | 66 |
| Peoria roofers ≈97 mi from Joliet |
9.3 | -4% | 20 (10) | 91 |
| Champaign roofers ≈98 mi from Joliet |
9.8 | same | 27 (11) | 80 |
| Decatur roofers ≈124 mi from Joliet |
11.2 | same | 18 (11) | 59 |
| Springfield roofers ≈144 mi from Joliet |
8.6 | same | 22 (7) | 121 |
On the cost index Joliet sits at 0.97×, and a Joliet roof takes 6.4 weeks of its pay, rank 192 of 209.
What a re-roof costs against home values in Joliet
Share of median home value
In Joliet a typical re-roof takes 4.4% of the $248,600 median home value. 123 cities carry a heavier ratio and 85 a lighter one.
Source: Census ACS (Joliet city), 2019–2023How old the homes are
Share of homes built before 1980.
46.8% of Joliet homes predate 1980. The median Joliet home was built in 1986, so a roof never replaced there is 40 years old. Oldest-first, Joliet stands #144 of 209.
Source: Census ACS (Joliet city), 2019–2023Repair or replace in Joliet
The median Joliet home was built in 1986, so an original roof would be 40 years old, past the 25–30 years architectural shingles are rated for. Here a repair mostly buys time. 46.8% of Joliet homes predate 1980, so some roofs on the street are second or third generation.
| Job | Cost | Weeks of pay |
|---|---|---|
| Small repair in Joliet | $650 | 0.38 |
| Larger repair in Joliet | $2,900 | 1.7 |
| Half of a new roof (50% rule) in Joliet | $5,450 | 3.2 |
| One year of roof life in Joliet | $396 | 0.23 |
The last row prices one year of roof life in Joliet: 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.
The Joliet roofing market
Joliet recorded 150,362 residents in the 2020 census, ranking it the third most populous city in Illinois. The city has evolved from a steel and manufacturing hub into a commuter suburb anchored by large logistics and healthcare employers. Amazon employs roughly 3,500 workers locally, while AMITA Health Saint Joseph Medical Center supports about 3,023 jobs. Will County government adds 2,200 more. This stable, large-employer base sustains homeownership and steady demand for residential roof replacement, while the ongoing warehouse and distribution buildout drives commercial roofing work.
Roofing companies in Joliet's county
- 66roofing establishments with paid employees
- 588paid roofing employees
- 62.1%have fewer than 5 employees
- 8.9employees per firm on average
62.1% of the county's roofing firms have under 5 staff, 2 points below the 190-city median of 64%. Firms average 8.9 paid staff.
Source: Census CBP, 2023On PickARoofer: 27 roofing contractors listed in Joliet, 12 verified against a public registry. See them
What roofers earn here
A roofer in the Joliet metro earns a median $82,090 a year, $4,190 above the $77,900 statewide median. None of 141 metros pays more than the Joliet area.
Source: BLS OEWS, roofers, May 2025License and permit in Illinois
Joliet roofers: State roofing license required.
Check a Joliet roofer in the Illinois registry
12 contractors listed in Joliet carry a Verified badge on PickARoofer.
Permit: Joliet's building office. General information, not legal advice.
Source: verification methodJoliet roof bill in weeks of pay
Weeks of median household income
The median Joliet household earns $88,026 a year, or $1,693 a week. A Joliet asphalt re-roof, typically $10,900, takes 6.4 weeks of that.
Rockford ($10,900 typical, 73 miles away) takes 10.6 weeks of its own pay, 4.2 weeks more than Joliet.
191 of 208 other cities ask for more, 17 for less.
Sum for Joliet: $10,900 ÷ ($88,026 ÷ 52) = 6.4 weeks.
Source: Census ACS (Joliet city), 2019–2023Areas PickARoofer contractors serve in Joliet
- Central Park
- Northwest Park
- Joliet Estates
- River Ridge
- Sunrise District
ZIP codes: 60451, 60452, 60474, 60494, 60453.
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Data version: Prices compiled June 2026. Free to quote with credit under CC BY 4.0.