What re-roofs in Rockford, IL declared on their permits

In 2025, 789 re-roof permits in Rockford passed our filters. The middle half declared between $10,000 and $17,829, and the median was $12,680. The 2025 median of $12,680 falls inside our guide range of $6,790 to $15,035.

Source: City of Rockford Building Permits, illinois-edp.data.socrata.com. Retrieved October 8, 2026. Latest permit in the extract: 2026-09-30.

Rockford, 2025: re-roof permits declared a median of $12,680; the middle half declared $10,000 to $17,829. Our guide range is $6,790 to $15,035.Our guide range $6,790 to $15,035median $12,680$10,000$17,829$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, 2024 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 at Rockford’s cost index of 0.97.

Declared value of re-roof permits in Rockford by year: middle half of permits and the median, against our guide range $6,790 to $15,035Our guide range$0$5k$10k$15k$20k20242024: middle half $8,042 to $17,000, median $11,823, 300 permitsn 30020252025: middle half $10,000 to $17,829, median $12,680, 789 permitsn 78920262026 so far: middle half $10,000 to $18,400, median $13,225, 518 permitsn 518*

* 2026 is not finished: the portal data runs to 2026-09-30.

Declared cost of re-roof permits
YearPermits25th pctMedian75th pct
2026*518$10,000$13,225$18,400
2025789$10,000$12,680$17,829
2024300$8,042$11,823$17,000

Against our price guide

The 2025 median of $12,680 falls inside our guide range of $6,790 to $15,035. The two figures answer different questions: ours is a modelled price for a 2,000 sq ft asphalt roof, the permit figure is a declared value on real jobs of mixed size.

FigureLowTypicalHigh
Rockford permits, 2025 (25th pct, median, 75th pct)$10,000$12,680$17,829
Our guide, 2,000 sq ft asphalt at index 0.97$6,790–$15,035

What the permit file says

  • In 2025, Rockford issued 789 re-roof permits that passed our filters.
  • Half of them declared between $10,000 and $17,829.
  • The median declared value in 2025 was $12,680.
  • The top quarter of permits declared $17,829 or more, 1.8 times the figure for the bottom quarter ($10,000 or less).
  • Across all published years the file holds 1,607 permits for Rockford.
  • The busiest published year was 2025 with 789 permits.
  • The portal is City of Rockford Building Permits on illinois-edp.data.socrata.com; the city updated it on October 1, 2026.
  • The latest permit in the extract was issued on September 30, 2026.
  • 72 percent of the permit rows matching a roof word survived our filters (2,223 matches, 1,607 kept).
  • Our guide range for a 2,000 sq ft asphalt roof is $6,790 to $15,035 at Rockford's cost index of 0.97.
  • The median moved from $11,823 in 2024 to $12,680 in 2025, up 7 percent.
  • 2026 so far: 518 permits, median $13,225 (data through September 30, 2026).

Scope in this city: work type ROOF, single-family/duplex dwelling permits.

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. 2,223 rows matched a roof word and 1,607 remained (72 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: City of Rockford Building Permits (illinois-edp.data.socrata.com). License: not stated on the portal.

Questions

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

789 permits passed our filters. The median declared value was $12,680, and half of the permits declared $10,000 to $17,829.

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 Rockford?

The 2025 median of $12,680 falls inside our guide range of $6,790 to $15,035. The two figures answer different questions: ours is a modelled price for a 2,000 sq ft asphalt roof, the permit figure is a declared value on real jobs of mixed size.

Where does the data come from?

From the city's open-data portal, City of Rockford Building Permits (illinois-edp.data.socrata.com, dataset 3k8p-pkx8), 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 Rockford? Describe the job once and we send it to one local roofer, not five.

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