Roof Replacement Cost in Spartanburg, South Carolina (2026)
Putting asphalt shingles on a 2,000 sq ft Spartanburg home costs $6,090 to $13,485, which a Spartanburg household on $51,193 a year earns back in 6.2 to 13.7 weeks. The median Spartanburg home dates from 1969. Starting ranges, not quotes. Prices compiled June 2026.
Short answer: A typical Spartanburg asphalt roof costs $9,800. That is 10.0 weeks of pay for a household earning $51,193 a year. Metal in Spartanburg runs $14,790 to $34,800, against $6,090 to $13,485 for asphalt.
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Compares your price per square foot with the Spartanburg installed range (tear-off and underlayment included). Not a judgment of any one roofer.
What would a Spartanburg roof cost per month?
Example rate only; your lender's offer will differ. For a Spartanburg home the principal is the local range for your size and material, and this is not a loan offer in Spartanburg or anywhere else.
How much life is left in my Spartanburg roof?
Typical lifespans are published ranges for each material; for a Spartanburg house, real life also depends on installation, attic ventilation and the weather Spartanburg gets.
Price your own roof in Spartanburg
Spartanburg prices sit 13% under the national base. A typical Spartanburg roof is 10.0 weeks of local pay, 48th heaviest of 209 cities.
- Same job at national base rates
- Difference in Spartanburg
- 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 |
| Spartanburg cost index | Fixed for Spartanburg, not recalculated from wages | 0.87× |
| Spartanburg low | $7,000 × Spartanburg index 0.87 | $6,090, 6.2 weeks of Spartanburg pay |
| Spartanburg high | $15,500 × Spartanburg index 0.87 | $13,485, 13.7 weeks of Spartanburg pay |
| Spartanburg typical | Midpoint of the Spartanburg low and high, rounded to $50 | $9,800 |
- Where Spartanburg 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 Spartanburg. 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 Spartanburg
A typical asphalt roof in Spartanburg costs $9,800, which is 10.0 weeks of local pay and puts Spartanburg 48th of 209 for burden.
| Material | Weeks of pay | Typical | Share of home value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3-Tab Asphalt Shingles in Spartanburg | 8.2 | $8,050 | 4.3% |
| Architectural Asphalt Shingles in Spartanburg | 10.8 | $10,650 | 5.7% |
| Metal (Steel/Aluminum) in Spartanburg | 20.8 | $20,450 | 11.0% |
| Standing Seam Metal in Spartanburg | 28.3 | $27,850 | 15.0% |
| Concrete Tile in Spartanburg | 18.5 | $18,250 | 9.8% |
| TPO / EPDM in Spartanburg* | 5.3 | $5,200 | 2.8% |
* 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 Spartanburg
Spartanburg homes sit 57 years from the median build year of 1969. An original roof that old is past the 25–30 years architectural shingles are rated for, so in Spartanburg a repair mostly buys time. 69.8% of Spartanburg homes predate 1980, so some roofs on the street are second or third generation.
| Job | Cost | Weeks of pay |
|---|---|---|
| Small repair in Spartanburg | $550 | 0.56 |
| Larger repair in Spartanburg | $2,600 | 2.6 |
| Half of a new roof (50% rule) in Spartanburg | $4,900 | 5.0 |
| One year of roof life in Spartanburg | $356 | 0.36 |
The last row prices one year of roof life in Spartanburg: 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.
Spartanburg roof bill in weeks of pay
Weeks of median household income
The median Spartanburg household earns $51,193 a year, or $984 a week. A Spartanburg asphalt re-roof, typically $9,800, takes 10.0 weeks of that.
Greenville ($10,100 typical, 27 miles away) takes 7.7 weeks of its own pay, 2.3 weeks fewer than Spartanburg.
47 of 208 other cities ask for more, 161 for less.
Sum for Spartanburg: $9,800 ÷ ($51,193 ÷ 52) = 10.0 weeks.
Source: Census ACS (Spartanburg city), 2019–2023Storms behind Spartanburg roof bills
Public NOAA records for Spartanburg's county.
- 34days with hail of 1 inch or larger
- 3 inlargest hailstone reported
- 114days with gusts of 58 mph or more
Hail reports by month
NOAA logged 75 hail reports for Spartanburg's county since 2014. May is the busiest month with 26 of them, 35% of the total.
Busiest three: May 26, June 20, April 10.
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 February 6, 2020, with $10,000,000 of reported property damage.
All reported hail, wind and tornado damage there adds up to at least $15,542,000. It is a floor, because many reports carry no dollar estimate.
The county saw 9 tornadoes, the strongest rated EF2.
Source: NOAA Storm Events, 2014–June 2026Reported hail locations, Spartanburg County
- 1+ in
- 1.75+ in
- 2.75+ in
Hail reports per year
| 2017 | 8 |
|---|---|
| 2018 | 5 |
| 2019 | 4 |
| 2020 | 14 |
| 2022 | 4 |
| 2023 | 1 |
| 2024 | 6 |
| 2025 | 4 |
46 recorded hail events across 8 years represented in the data. 2020 had the most events among represented full years: 14.
The last bar is a partial year.
Source: NOAA Storm Events, 2014–June 2026 Hail risk lookup
What weather does to a Spartanburg 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 Spartanburg. Source: NASA POWER (MERRA-2/IMERG reanalysis, daily point data), 2014–2023
If insurance covers the damage
Estimates against Spartanburg's $6,090–$13,485 range. General information, not legal advice. How claims work →
| Your deductible | Weeks of Spartanburg pay | Out-of-pocket |
|---|---|---|
| $500 | 0.51 weeks in Spartanburg | $500 |
| $1,000 | 1.0 weeks in Spartanburg | $1,000 |
| $2,500 | 2.5 weeks in Spartanburg | $2,500 |
Spartanburg against nearby South Carolina cities
Neighbors run from 0.83× to 0.94× against Spartanburg's 0.87×. Closest: Greenville, about 27 mi, at $6,300 to $13,950.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spartanburg (this page) | 10.0 | — | 28 (0) | 46 |
| Greenville roofers ≈27 mi from Spartanburg |
7.7 | +3% | 28 (0) | 60 |
| Rock Hill roofers ≈51 mi from Spartanburg |
8.0 | +2% | 27 (0) | 29 |
| Columbia roofers ≈83 mi from Spartanburg |
9.2 | same | 26 (0) | 38 |
| Florence roofers ≈132 mi from Spartanburg |
8.6 | -5% | 24 (0) | 6 |
| Myrtle Beach roofers ≈193 mi from Spartanburg |
10.3 | +8% | 26 (0) | 44 |
On the cost index Spartanburg sits at 0.87×, and a Spartanburg roof takes 10.0 weeks of its pay, rank 48 of 209.
What a re-roof costs against home values in Spartanburg
Share of median home value
In Spartanburg a typical re-roof takes 5.3% of the $185,300 median home value. 81 cities carry a heavier ratio and 127 a lighter one.
Source: Census ACS (Spartanburg city), 2019–2023How old the homes are
Share of homes built before 1980.
69.8% of Spartanburg homes predate 1980. A roof that Spartanburg homebuyers never replaced since the median build year of 1969 is 57 years old. Oldest-first, Spartanburg stands #46 of 209.
Source: Census ACS (Spartanburg city), 2019–2023The Spartanburg roofing market
BMW's North American manufacturing headquarters in Spartanburg has anchored an automotive supply chain economy that keeps unemployment low and supports steady homeownership demand. The Upstate South Carolina market has a strong contingent of locally established roofing firms with 20+ year track records, which distinguishes it from markets more susceptible to out-of-state storm chasers.
Roofing companies in Spartanburg's county
- 22roofing establishments with paid employees
- 288paid roofing employees
- 63.6%have fewer than 5 employees
- 13.1employees per firm on average
63.6% of the county's roofing firms have under 5 staff, level with the 190-city median of 64%. Firms average 13.1 paid staff.
Source: Census CBP, 2023On PickARoofer: 28 roofing contractors listed in Spartanburg. See them
What roofers earn here
A roofer in the Spartanburg metro earns a median $43,060 a year, $2,700 below the $45,760 statewide median. 132 of 141 metros pay more than the Spartanburg area.
Source: BLS OEWS, roofers, May 2025Areas PickARoofer contractors serve in Spartanburg
- Downtown Spartanburg
- Converse Heights
- Hillbrook
- Boiling Springs
- Chesnee
- Inman
ZIP codes: 29301, 29302, 29303, 29306, 29316.
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