Roof Replacement Cost in Sioux City, Iowa (2026)
An asphalt re-roof of a 2,000 sq ft home in Sioux City runs $6,090 to $13,485. The median Sioux City household earns $65,473 a year, so that is 4.8 to 10.7 weeks of its pay. The median Sioux City home dates from 1956. Starting ranges, not quotes. Prices compiled June 2026.
Short answer: In Sioux City the typical asphalt re-roof costs $9,800, which is 7.8 weeks of local pay on a $65,473 median household income. Metal in Sioux City runs $14,790 to $34,800, and the Sioux City asphalt range is $6,090 to $13,485.
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Compares your price per square foot with the Sioux City installed range (tear-off and underlayment included). Not a judgment of any one roofer.
What would a Sioux City roof cost per month?
Example rate only; your lender's offer will differ. For a Sioux City home the principal is the local range for your size and material, and this is not a loan offer in Sioux City or anywhere else.
How much life is left in my Sioux City roof?
Typical lifespans are published ranges for each material; for a Sioux City house, real life also depends on installation, attic ventilation and the weather Sioux City gets.
Price your own roof in Sioux City
Sioux City prices sit 13% under the national base. A typical Sioux City roof is 7.8 weeks of local pay, 157th heaviest of 209 cities.
- Same job at national base rates
- Difference in Sioux City
- 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 |
| Sioux City cost index | Fixed for Sioux City, not recalculated from wages | 0.87× |
| Sioux City low | $7,000 × Sioux City index 0.87 | $6,090, 4.8 weeks of Sioux City pay |
| Sioux City high | $15,500 × Sioux City index 0.87 | $13,485, 10.7 weeks of Sioux City pay |
| Sioux City typical | Midpoint of the Sioux City low and high, rounded to $50 | $9,800 |
- Where Sioux City 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 Sioux City. 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 Sioux City
A typical asphalt roof in Sioux City costs $9,800, which is 7.8 weeks of local pay and puts Sioux City 157th of 209 for burden.
| Material | Weeks of pay | Typical | Share of home value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3-Tab Asphalt Shingles in Sioux City | 6.4 | $8,050 | 5.0% |
| Architectural Asphalt Shingles in Sioux City | 8.5 | $10,650 | 6.5% |
| Metal (Steel/Aluminum) in Sioux City | 16.2 | $20,450 | 12.6% |
| Standing Seam Metal in Sioux City | 22.1 | $27,850 | 17.1% |
| Concrete Tile in Sioux City | 14.5 | $18,250 | 11.2% |
| TPO / EPDM in Sioux City* | 4.1 | $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 Sioux City
Sioux City homes sit 70 years from the median build year of 1956. An original roof that old is past the 25–30 years architectural shingles are rated for, so in Sioux City a repair mostly buys time. 80.6% of Sioux City homes predate 1980, so some roofs on the street are second or third generation.
| Job | Cost | Weeks of pay |
|---|---|---|
| Small repair in Sioux City | $550 | 0.44 |
| Larger repair in Sioux City | $2,600 | 2.1 |
| Half of a new roof (50% rule) in Sioux City | $4,900 | 3.9 |
| One year of roof life in Sioux City | $356 | 0.28 |
The last row prices one year of roof life in Sioux City: 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 Sioux City 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 Sioux City. Source: NASA POWER (MERRA-2/IMERG reanalysis, daily point data), 2014–2023
Storms behind Sioux City roof bills
Public NOAA records for Sioux City's county.
- 26days with hail of 1 inch or larger
- 2 inlargest hailstone reported
- 43days with gusts of 58 mph or more
Hail reports by month
NOAA logged 92 hail reports for Sioux City's county since 2014. June is the busiest month with 43 of them, 47% of the total.
Busiest three: June 43, April 20, May 18.
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 December 15, 2021, with $1,155,000 of reported property damage.
All reported hail, wind and tornado damage there adds up to at least $1,279,000. It is a floor, because many reports carry no dollar estimate.
The county saw 8 tornadoes, the strongest rated EF2.
Source: NOAA Storm Events, 2014–June 2026Reported hail locations, Woodbury County
- 1+ in
- 1.75+ in
- 2.75+ in
Hail reports per year
| 2017 | 6 |
|---|---|
| 2018 | 5 |
| 2019 | 3 |
| 2020 | 2 |
| 2021 | 1 |
| 2022 | 4 |
| 2023 | 6 |
| 2024 | 11 |
| 2025 | 3 |
| 2026* | 17 |
58 recorded hail events across 9 full years plus 2026 to June represented in the data, about 4.6 per represented full year. 2024 had the most events among represented full years: 11.
The last bar is a partial year.
Source: NOAA Storm Events, 2014–June 2026 Sioux City storm history · Hail risk lookup
If insurance covers the damage
Estimates against Sioux City's $6,090–$13,485 range. General information, not legal advice. How claims work →
| Your deductible | Weeks of Sioux City pay | Out-of-pocket |
|---|---|---|
| $500 | 0.40 weeks in Sioux City | $500 |
| $1,000 | 0.79 weeks in Sioux City | $1,000 |
| $2,500 | 2.0 weeks in Sioux City | $2,500 |
Sioux City against nearby Iowa cities
6 neighbors share 0.87×, against Sioux City's 0.87×. Closest is Council Bluffs, about 90 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sioux City (this page) | 7.8 | — | 25 (0) | 58 |
| Council Bluffs roofers ≈90 mi from Sioux City |
8.0 | same | 18 (0) | 70 |
| Ames roofers ≈145 mi from Sioux City |
8.5 | same | 23 (0) | 126 |
| Waterloo roofers ≈206 mi from Sioux City |
9.0 | same | 27 (0) | 59 |
| Cedar Rapids roofers ≈244 mi from Sioux City |
7.5 | same | 29 (0) | 131 |
| Iowa City roofers ≈254 mi from Sioux City |
8.9 | same | 23 (0) | 91 |
| Dubuque roofers ≈292 mi from Sioux City |
7.8 | same | 20 (0) | 48 |
On the cost index Sioux City sits at 0.87×, and a Sioux City roof takes 7.8 weeks of its pay, rank 157 of 209.
What a re-roof costs against home values in Sioux City
Share of median home value
In Sioux City a typical re-roof takes 6.0% of the $162,600 median home value. 46 cities carry a heavier ratio and 162 a lighter one.
Source: Census ACS (Sioux City city), 2019–2023How old the homes are
Share of homes built before 1980.
80.6% of Sioux City homes predate 1980. A roof that Sioux City homebuyers never replaced since the median build year of 1956 is 70 years old. Oldest-first, Sioux City stands #14 of 209.
Source: Census ACS (Sioux City city), 2019–2023The Sioux City roofing market
Sioux City's 2020 census count was 85,797, Iowa's fourth largest city. Tyson Fresh Meats leads the economy with 4,500 employees, followed by Seaboard Triumph Foods at 2,400, making meat processing the dominant industry. The Sioux City Community School District employs 2,370. This blue-collar employment base supports a large inventory of working-class and mid-range homes that cycle through roof replacements on predictable schedules, creating consistent contractor demand.
Roofing companies in Sioux City's county
- 11roofing establishments with paid employees
- 45paid roofing employees
- 54.5%have fewer than 5 employees
- 4.1employees per firm on average
54.5% of the county's roofing firms have under 5 staff, 9 points below the 190-city median of 64%. Firms average 4.1 paid staff.
Source: Census CBP, 2023On PickARoofer: 25 roofing contractors listed in Sioux City. See them
What roofers earn here
A roofer in the Sioux City metro earns a median $47,050 a year, $1,610 below the $48,660 statewide median. 88 of 141 metros pay more than the Sioux City area.
Source: BLS OEWS, roofers, May 2025License and permit in Iowa
Sioux City roofers: State contractor registration.
Permit: Sioux City's building office. General information, not legal advice.
Source: verification methodSioux City roof bill in weeks of pay
Weeks of median household income
The median Sioux City household earns $65,473 a year, or $1,259 a week. A Sioux City asphalt re-roof, typically $9,800, takes 7.8 weeks of that.
Council Bluffs ($9,800 typical, 90 miles away) takes 8.0 weeks of its own pay, 0.17 weeks more than Sioux City.
156 of 208 other cities ask for more, 52 for less.
Sum for Sioux City: $9,800 ÷ ($65,473 ÷ 52) = 7.8 weeks.
Source: Census ACS (Sioux City city), 2019–2023Areas PickARoofer contractors serve in Sioux City
- Northend
- Downtown Sioux City
- West End
- East End
- Sioux City Heights
ZIP codes: 51102, 51103, 51104, 51106, 51107.
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Data version: Prices compiled June 2026. Free to quote with credit under CC BY 4.0.