Roof Replacement Cost in Youngstown, Ohio (2026)
Putting asphalt shingles on a 2,000 sq ft Youngstown home costs $6,370 to $14,105, which a Youngstown household on $34,746 a year earns back in 9.5 to 21.1 weeks. By that measure Youngstown sits 1st of 209 cities we price. Starting ranges, not quotes. Prices compiled June 2026.
Short answer: The usual asphalt re-roof in Youngstown is $10,250, which takes 15.3 weeks of a $34,746 median household income. Metal in Youngstown: $15,470 to $36,400. Asphalt in Youngstown: $6,370 to $14,105.
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Compares your price per square foot with the Youngstown installed range (tear-off and underlayment included). Not a judgment of any one roofer.
What would a Youngstown roof cost per month?
Example rate only; your lender's offer will differ. For a Youngstown home the principal is the local range for your size and material, and this is not a loan offer in Youngstown or anywhere else.
How much life is left in my Youngstown roof?
Typical lifespans are published ranges for each material; for a Youngstown house, real life also depends on installation, attic ventilation and the weather Youngstown gets.
Price your own roof in Youngstown
Youngstown prices sit 9% under the national base. A typical Youngstown roof is 15.3 weeks of local pay, 1st heaviest of 209 cities.
- Same job at national base rates
- Difference in Youngstown
- 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 |
| Youngstown cost index | Fixed for Youngstown, not recalculated from wages | 0.91× |
| Youngstown low | $7,000 × Youngstown index 0.91 | $6,370, 9.5 weeks of Youngstown pay |
| Youngstown high | $15,500 × Youngstown index 0.91 | $14,105, 21.1 weeks of Youngstown pay |
| Youngstown typical | Midpoint of the Youngstown low and high, rounded to $50 | $10,250 |
- Where Youngstown 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 Youngstown. 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 Youngstown
A typical asphalt roof in Youngstown costs $10,250, which is 15.3 weeks of local pay and puts Youngstown 1st of 209 for burden.
| Material | Weeks of pay | Typical | Share of home value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3-Tab Asphalt Shingles in Youngstown | 12.6 | $8,400 | 14.4% |
| Architectural Asphalt Shingles in Youngstown | 16.7 | $11,150 | 19.1% |
| Metal (Steel/Aluminum) in Youngstown | 32.0 | $21,400 | 36.6% |
| Standing Seam Metal in Youngstown | 43.6 | $29,100 | 49.8% |
| Concrete Tile in Youngstown | 28.6 | $19,100 | 32.7% |
| TPO / EPDM in Youngstown* | 8.2 | $5,450 | 9.3% |
* 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
Youngstown roof bill in weeks of pay
Weeks of median household income
The median Youngstown household earns $34,746 a year, or $668 a week. A Youngstown asphalt re-roof, typically $10,250, takes 15.3 weeks of that.
Canton ($10,250 typical, 43 miles away) takes 13.4 weeks of its own pay, 1.9 weeks fewer than Youngstown.
No other city we cover asks more of a household than Youngstown.
Sum for Youngstown: $10,250 ÷ ($34,746 ÷ 52) = 15.3 weeks.
Source: Census ACS (Youngstown city), 2019–2023Repair or replace in Youngstown
Youngstown homes sit 75 years from the median build year of 1951. An original roof that old is past the 25–30 years architectural shingles are rated for, so in Youngstown a repair mostly buys time. 90.4% of Youngstown homes predate 1980, so some roofs on the street are second or third generation.
| Job | Cost | Weeks of pay |
|---|---|---|
| Small repair in Youngstown | $600 | 0.90 |
| Larger repair in Youngstown | $2,750 | 4.1 |
| Half of a new roof (50% rule) in Youngstown | $5,100 | 7.6 |
| One year of roof life in Youngstown | $373 | 0.56 |
The last row prices one year of roof life in Youngstown: 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 Youngstown 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 Youngstown. Source: NASA POWER (MERRA-2/IMERG reanalysis, daily point data), 2014–2023
Youngstown against nearby Ohio cities
6 neighbors share 0.91×, against Youngstown's 0.91×. Closest is Canton, about 43 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Youngstown (this page) | 15.3 | — | 27 (0) | 22 |
| Canton roofers ≈43 mi from Youngstown |
13.4 | same | 27 (0) | 27 |
| Akron roofers ≈45 mi from Youngstown |
11.0 | same | 29 (0) | 40 |
| Lorain roofers ≈83 mi from Youngstown |
11.6 | same | 28 (0) | 23 |
| Mansfield roofers ≈100 mi from Youngstown |
12.5 | same | 27 (0) | 26 |
| Newark roofers ≈116 mi from Youngstown |
9.0 | same | 28 (0) | 40 |
| Toledo roofers ≈156 mi from Youngstown |
11.2 | same | 29 (0) | 29 |
On the cost index Youngstown sits at 0.91×, and a Youngstown roof takes 15.3 weeks of its pay, rank 1 of 209.
What a re-roof costs against home values in Youngstown
Share of median home value
In Youngstown a typical re-roof takes 17.6% of the $58,400 median home value. Only 2 other cities carry a heavier ratio.
Source: Census ACS (Youngstown city), 2019–2023How old the homes are
Share of homes built before 1980.
90.4% of Youngstown homes predate 1980. A roof that Youngstown homebuyers never replaced since the median build year of 1951 is 75 years old. Oldest-first, Youngstown stands #4 of 209.
Source: Census ACS (Youngstown city), 2019–2023If insurance covers the damage
Estimates against Youngstown's $6,370–$14,105 range. General information, not legal advice. How claims work →
| Your deductible | Weeks of Youngstown pay | Out-of-pocket |
|---|---|---|
| $500 | 0.75 weeks in Youngstown | $500 |
| $1,000 | 1.5 weeks in Youngstown | $1,000 |
| $2,500 | 3.7 weeks in Youngstown | $2,500 |
The Youngstown roofing market
Youngstown, with 60,068 residents in 2020, carries a post-industrial footprint after losing an estimated 40,000 manufacturing jobs following steel plant closures in the 1970s. Youngstown State University, the city's largest employer serving about 11,000 students, anchors the institutional base. Vallourec Star Steel, Trivium Packaging, and Steelite (a British ceramics manufacturer with US headquarters here) represent remaining industrial employers. The aging, largely owner-occupied housing stock built during the steel era creates steady reroofing demand across the metro.
Roofing companies in Youngstown's county
- 17roofing establishments with paid employees
- 177paid roofing employees
- 76.5%have fewer than 5 employees
- 10.4employees per firm on average
76.5% of the county's roofing firms have under 5 staff, 13 points above the 190-city median of 64%. Firms average 10.4 paid staff.
Source: Census CBP, 2023On PickARoofer: 27 roofing contractors listed in Youngstown. See them
What roofers earn here
A roofer in the Youngstown metro earns a median $47,820 a year, $1,570 below the $49,390 statewide median. 74 of 141 metros pay more than the Youngstown area.
Source: BLS OEWS, roofers, May 2025Storms behind Youngstown roof bills
Public NOAA records for Youngstown's county.
- 10days with hail of 1 inch or larger
- 1.75 inlargest hailstone reported
- 49days with gusts of 58 mph or more
Hail reports by month
NOAA logged 31 hail reports for Youngstown's county since 2014. May is the busiest month with 10 of them, 32% of the total.
Busiest three: May 10, March 6, June 5.
No hail was reported in 4 of the 12 months (January to November, in calendar order).
The costliest storm day on record in the county was November 5, 2017, with $502,000 of reported property damage.
All reported hail, wind and tornado damage there adds up to at least $2,160,000. It is a floor, because many reports carry no dollar estimate.
The county saw 2 tornadoes, the strongest rated EF1.
Source: NOAA Storm Events, 2014–June 2026Reported hail locations, Mahoning County
- 1+ in
- 1.75+ in
- 2.75+ in
Hail reports per year
| 2017 | 2 |
|---|---|
| 2019 | 4 |
| 2020 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2 |
| 2023 | 2 |
| 2024 | 5 |
| 2025 | 1 |
| 2026* | 4 |
22 recorded hail events across 7 full years plus 2026 to June represented in the data. 2024 had the most events among represented full years: 5.
The last bar is a partial year.
Source: NOAA Storm Events, 2014–June 2026 Youngstown storm history · Hail risk lookup
Areas PickARoofer contractors serve in Youngstown
- Southside
- Salem Village
- North Hill
- Warrensville Heights
- Windsor Park
ZIP codes: 44512, 44503, 44513, 44515, 44519.
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