What re-roofs in Cleveland, OH declared on their permits

Short answer: In 2025 Cleveland issued 1,192 re-roof permits with a median declared cost of $10,000, inside our $7,000 to $15,500 guide range (-11% against its midpoint). Declared cost is not the contract price.

7,415 permits in all, from Building_Permits. Scope: residential building permits.

Source: services3.arcgis.com. Retrieved October 9, 2026.

Cleveland, 2025: re-roof permits declared a median of $10,000; the middle half declared $7,500 to $14,669. Our guide range is $7,000 to $15,500.Our guide range $7,000 to $15,500median $10,000$7,500$14,669$0$5k$10k$15k$20k
  • 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, 2019 to 2025

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 Cleveland.

Declared value of re-roof permits in Cleveland by year: middle half of permits and the median, against our guide range $7,000 to $15,500Our guide range$0$5k$10k$15k$20k20192019: middle half $4,500 to $8,380, median $6,000, 1,009 permitsn 1,00920202020: middle half $5,000 to $9,407, median $6,900, 740 permitsn 74020212021: middle half $6,000 to $11,301, median $8,264, 1,137 permitsn 1,13720222022: middle half $6,000 to $11,600, median $8,457, 965 permitsn 96520232023: middle half $6,677 to $12,000, median $9,000, 1,161 permitsn 1,16120242024: middle half $7,000 to $13,100, median $9,750, 1,211 permitsn 1,21120252025: middle half $7,500 to $14,669, median $10,000, 1,192 permitsn 1,192

The biggest rise in permit counts came from 2020 to 2021: 740 to 1,137, +54%. The biggest fall came from 2019 to 2020: 1,009 to 740, -27%. The median declared cost went from $6,000 in 2019 to $10,000 in 2025, +67% over 6 years.

Declared cost of re-roof permits
YearPermits25th pctMedian75th pctMedian vs guide
20251,192$7,500$10,000$14,669-11%
20241,211$7,000$9,750$13,100-13%
20231,161$6,677$9,000$12,000-20%
2022965$6,000$8,457$11,600-25%
20211,137$6,000$8,264$11,301-27%
2020740$5,000$6,900$9,407-39%
20191,009$4,500$6,000$8,380-47%

Years with fewer than 30 permits are not shown.

The gap to our price guide

The 2025 median of $10,000 falls inside our guide range of $7,000 to $15,500. Ours is a modelled price for a 2,000 sq ft asphalt roof; the permit figure is what applicants declared on real jobs, where roof size, material and bundled work are not recorded.

Permit median, 2025$10,000Middle half $7,500 to $14,669
Our guide range$7,000 to $15,5002,000 sq ft asphalt, national base (no city index)
GapInside-11% against the midpoint of $11,250

The last column of the year table compares each year’s median with today’s midpoint; the guide is not adjusted back in time.

When Cleveland pulls re-roof permits

Of 3,564 permits issued in 2023, 2024 and 2025, 405 (11 percent) came in October, the busiest month. The quietest, January, had 110, 3.7 times fewer. August to October together hold 33 percent.

Cleveland: re-roof permits by issue month, pooled. Busiest October, quietest January.0100200300400500January: 110 permits, 3.1% of the pooled totalJFebruary: 149 permits, 4.2% of the pooled totalFMarch: 290 permits, 8.1% of the pooled totalMApril: 286 permits, 8.0% of the pooled totalAMay: 377 permits, 10.6% of the pooled totalMJune: 349 permits, 9.8% of the pooled totalJJuly: 366 permits, 10.3% of the pooled totalJAugust: 382 permits, 10.7% of the pooled totalASeptember: 401 permits, 11.3% of the pooled totalSOctober: 405 permits, 11.4% of the pooled totalO405November: 304 permits, 8.5% of the pooled totalNDecember: 145 permits, 4.1% of the pooled totalD
Permits by issue month, 2023, 2024 and 2025 pooled
MonthPermitsShare
January1103.1%
February1494.2%
March2908.1%
April2868.0%
May37710.6%
June3499.8%
July36610.3%
August38210.7%
September40111.3%
October40511.4%
November3048.5%
December1454.1%

Where in Cleveland the re-roofs are

44111 leads with 724 permits in 2023 to 2025, 23 percent of the 3,187 across 12 areas; the top three hold 52 percent. Highest median: 44108, $11,000 on 134 permits. Lowest: 44128, $7,950 on 183, a 1.4-fold spread.

Top 10 areas by permits, 2023 to 2025
Zip codePermitsShareMedianAgainst guide midpoint
44111 72422.7%$9,797-13%
44109 46514.6%$10,000-11%
44135 46514.6%$8,550-24%
44102 3109.7%$10,000-11%
44105 2347.3%$9,480-16%
44128 1835.7%$7,950-29%
44120 1715.4%$10,000-11%
44144 1695.3%$9,100-19%
44108 1344.2%$11,000-2%
44110 1294.0%$10,500-7%

Area = ZIP code as the portal records it; 100 percent of permits carry one. Areas under 10 permits are left out. No addresses are stored.

What the permit file says

  • The top quarter of permits declared $14,669 or more, 2.0 times the figure for the bottom quarter ($7,500 or less).
  • Across all published years the file holds 7,415 permits for Cleveland.
  • The busiest published year was 2024 with 1,211 permits.

How Cleveland’s numbers were counted

15,615 rows matched a roof word and 7,434 remained (48 percent). The filters and their limits are on the permit data overview. A year appears only with at least 30 permits.

Data: Building_Permits (services3.arcgis.com). No license stated on the portal.

Questions

What did re-roof permits in Cleveland declare in 2025?

1,192 permits passed our filters. The median declared value was $10,000, and half of the permits declared $7,500 to $14,669.

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 Cleveland?

The 2025 median of $10,000 falls inside our guide range of $7,000 to $15,500. Ours is a modelled price for a 2,000 sq ft asphalt roof; the permit figure is what applicants declared on real jobs, where roof size, material and bundled work are not recorded.

Where does the data come from?

From the city's open-data portal, Building_Permits (services3.arcgis.com, dataset Building_Permits), retrieved October 9, 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 Cleveland? Describe the job once and we send it to one local roofer, not five.

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