What re-roofs in Baton Rouge, LA declared on their permits

Name: Declared value of re-roof permits, Baton Rouge, LA
Creator: PickARoofer
License: Public Domain

In 2025, 393 re-roof permits in Baton Rouge passed our filters. The middle half declared between $13,994 and $27,659, and the median was $19,780. The 2025 median of $19,780 sits above our guide range of $7,000 to $15,500.

Source: EBR Building Permits, data.brla.gov. Retrieved October 8, 2026. Latest permit in the extract: 2026-10-05.

Middle half of permits
Median
Our guide range, 2,000 sq ft asphalt

Declared cost on the permit application is not the contract price. It is what the applicant wrote on the form. It can sit below the signed contract, and permits do not say how big the roof was. Read it as the spread of real jobs, not as a quote.

Year by year, 2025 to 2026

Each bar runs from the 25th to the 75th percentile of declared cost. The dark tick is the median. The grey band is our guide range, the national base, because we have no city index for Baton Rouge.

* 2026 is not finished: the portal data runs to 2026-10-05.

Declared cost of re-roof permits
Year	Permits	25th pct	Median	75th pct
2026*	1,261	$13,188	$18,422	$26,252
2025	393	$13,994	$19,780	$27,659

Against our price guide

The 2025 median of $19,780 sits above our guide range of $7,000 to $15,500. A median above our range usually points to bigger or more complex roofs in the sample, not to a mistake in either figure. Roof size is not in the data.

Figure	Low	Typical	High
Baton Rouge permits, 2025 (25th pct, median, 75th pct)	$13,994	$19,780	$27,659
Our guide, 2,000 sq ft asphalt, national base (no city index)	$7,000	–	$15,500

What the permit file says

In 2025, Baton Rouge issued 393 re-roof permits that passed our filters.
Half of them declared between $13,994 and $27,659.
The median declared value in 2025 was $19,780.
The top quarter of permits declared $27,659 or more, 2.0 times the figure for the bottom quarter ($13,994 or less).
Across all published years the file holds 1,654 permits for Baton Rouge.
The busiest published year was 2026 with 1,261 permits (the year is not finished).
The portal is EBR Building Permits on data.brla.gov; the city updated it on October 8, 2026.
The latest permit in the extract was issued on October 5, 2026.
94 percent of the permit rows matching a roof word survived our filters (1,755 matches, 1,654 kept).
Our guide range for a 2,000 sq ft asphalt roof is $7,000 to $15,500 (national base; we have no city index for Baton Rouge).
2026 so far: 1,261 permits, median $18,422 (data through October 5, 2026).

The parish portal's re-roof records start on July 30, 2025, so 2025 covers five months. The dataset belongs to East Baton Rouge Parish; 96 percent of its Re-Roof permits carry a Baton Rouge address (portal query, October 9, 2026).

Scope in this city: permit type 'Re-Roof (R)' (residential re-roof).

How we counted

We took every permit row whose description matches a re-roof pattern, dropped rows about repairs, solar panels, additions, new buildings and other trades, kept declared costs from $1,000 to $150,000, and counted each permit number once. 1,755 rows matched a roof word and 1,654 remained (94 percent). The classifier is approximate: some re-roofs bundled with other work are excluded, and a few mislabelled rows remain. A year appears only with at least 30 permits.

Data: EBR Building Permits (data.brla.gov). Permits and Inspections License: Public Domain.

Questions

What did re-roof permits in Baton Rouge declare in 2025?

393 permits passed our filters. The median declared value was $19,780, and half of the permits declared $13,994 to $27,659.

Is the permit value what the roofer charged?

Not necessarily. The value is the cost the applicant declared on the permit application. It can differ from the signed contract, and it is not an invoice. Use it to see the spread of real jobs, and get written quotes for your own roof.

How does this compare with your cost guide for Baton Rouge?

Where does the data come from?

From the city's open-data portal, EBR Building Permits (data.brla.gov, dataset 7fq7-8j7r), retrieved October 8, 2026. We keep permits with a re-roof description, drop repairs, solar, additions and new builds, keep declared values between $1,000 and $150,000, and count each permit number once.

Why are some years missing?

We publish a year only when it has at least 30 permits after filtering, and the current year is marked as partial until the portal has data past mid-December.

Planning a re-roof in Baton Rouge? Describe the job once and we send it to one local roofer, not five.

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