What re-roofs in San Francisco, CA declared on their permits

In 2025, 3,107 re-roof permits in San Francisco passed our filters. The middle half declared between $10,800 and $20,000, and the median was $15,000. The 2025 median of $15,000 falls inside our guide range of $7,000 to $15,500.

Source: Building Permits, data.sf.gov. Retrieved October 8, 2026. Latest permit in the extract: 2026-10-01.

San Francisco, 2025: re-roof permits declared a median of $15,000; the middle half declared $10,800 to $20,000. Our guide range is $7,000 to $15,500.Our guide range $7,000 to $15,500median $15,000$10,800$20,000$0$5k$10k$15k$20k$25k
  • 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, 1987 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 San Francisco.

Declared value of re-roof permits in San Francisco by year: middle half of permits and the median, against our guide range $7,000 to $15,500Our guide range$0$5k$10k$15k$20k$25k19871987: middle half $2,812 to $10,000, median $4,500, 30 permitsn 3019881988: middle half $2,600 to $4,975, median $3,600, 1,669 permitsn 1,66919891989: middle half $2,559 to $5,000, median $3,500, 4,366 permitsn 4,36619901990: middle half $2,700 to $5,400, median $3,700, 4,286 permitsn 4,28619911991: middle half $2,700 to $5,278, median $3,639, 4,491 permitsn 4,49119921992: middle half $2,800 to $5,400, median $3,751, 4,160 permitsn 4,16019931993: middle half $3,000 to $5,800, median $4,000, 4,500 permitsn 4,50019941994: middle half $3,100 to $6,000, median $4,200, 3,728 permitsn 3,72819951995: middle half $3,100 to $6,250, median $4,200, 4,739 permitsn 4,73919961996: middle half $3,300 to $6,512, median $4,500, 5,227 permitsn 5,22719971997: middle half $3,500 to $6,800, median $4,680, 5,068 permitsn 5,06819981998: middle half $3,700 to $7,500, median $5,000, 3,920 permitsn 3,92019991999: middle half $4,000 to $8,000, median $5,800, 3,120 permitsn 3,12020002000: middle half $4,500 to $8,500, median $6,100, 2,363 permitsn 2,36320012001: middle half $4,500 to $9,000, median $6,000, 2,079 permitsn 2,07920022002: middle half $4,700 to $9,480, median $6,500, 2,481 permitsn 2,48120032003: middle half $5,000 to $10,000, median $7,200, 2,519 permitsn 2,51920042004: middle half $5,000 to $10,700, median $7,400, 2,475 permitsn 2,47520052005: middle half $5,400 to $10,800, median $7,510, 2,254 permitsn 2,25420062006: middle half $5,500 to $11,030, median $7,880, 2,334 permitsn 2,33420072007: middle half $5,852 to $11,794, median $8,000, 1,870 permitsn 1,87020082008: middle half $5,800 to $11,950, median $8,000, 1,902 permitsn 1,90220092009: middle half $5,980 to $11,750, median $8,000, 1,617 permitsn 1,61720102010: middle half $6,000 to $12,000, median $8,300, 1,685 permitsn 1,68520112011: middle half $6,000 to $11,800, median $8,240, 1,703 permitsn 1,70320122012: middle half $6,000 to $11,800, median $8,000, 1,549 permitsn 1,54920132013: middle half $6,300 to $12,358, median $8,583, 1,672 permitsn 1,67220142014: middle half $6,500 to $12,631, median $8,977, 1,664 permitsn 1,66420152015: middle half $7,000 to $13,000, median $9,500, 2,286 permitsn 2,28620162016: middle half $7,500 to $14,200, median $10,000, 1,855 permitsn 1,85520172017: middle half $8,000 to $15,000, median $10,800, 2,033 permitsn 2,03320182018: middle half $8,142 to $16,484, median $11,000, 1,898 permitsn 1,89820192019: middle half $9,000 to $17,662, median $12,600, 2,036 permitsn 2,03620202020: middle half $9,500 to $18,000, median $12,500, 1,551 permitsn 1,55120212021: middle half $9,800 to $18,000, median $13,000, 1,894 permitsn 1,89420222022: middle half $10,000 to $20,000, median $14,000, 2,166 permitsn 2,16620232023: middle half $10,683 to $20,000, median $15,000, 2,727 permitsn 2,72720242024: middle half $11,000 to $20,000, median $15,000, 3,376 permitsn 3,37620252025: middle half $10,800 to $20,000, median $15,000, 3,107 permitsn 3,10720262026 so far: middle half $11,000 to $21,000, median $15,000, 1,381 permitsn 1,381*

* 2026 is not finished: the portal data runs to 2026-10-01.

Declared cost of re-roof permits
YearPermits25th pctMedian75th pct
2026*1,381$11,000$15,000$21,000
20253,107$10,800$15,000$20,000
20243,376$11,000$15,000$20,000
20232,727$10,683$15,000$20,000
20222,166$10,000$14,000$20,000
20211,894$9,800$13,000$18,000
20201,551$9,500$12,500$18,000
20192,036$9,000$12,600$17,662
20181,898$8,142$11,000$16,484
20172,033$8,000$10,800$15,000
20161,855$7,500$10,000$14,200
20152,286$7,000$9,500$13,000
20141,664$6,500$8,977$12,631
20131,672$6,300$8,583$12,358
20121,549$6,000$8,000$11,800
20111,703$6,000$8,240$11,800
20101,685$6,000$8,300$12,000
20091,617$5,980$8,000$11,750
20081,902$5,800$8,000$11,950
20071,870$5,852$8,000$11,794
20062,334$5,500$7,880$11,030
20052,254$5,400$7,510$10,800
20042,475$5,000$7,400$10,700
20032,519$5,000$7,200$10,000
20022,481$4,700$6,500$9,480
20012,079$4,500$6,000$9,000
20002,363$4,500$6,100$8,500
19993,120$4,000$5,800$8,000
19983,920$3,700$5,000$7,500
19975,068$3,500$4,680$6,800
19965,227$3,300$4,500$6,512
19954,739$3,100$4,200$6,250
19943,728$3,100$4,200$6,000
19934,500$3,000$4,000$5,800
19924,160$2,800$3,751$5,400
19914,491$2,700$3,639$5,278
19904,286$2,700$3,700$5,400
19894,366$2,559$3,500$5,000
19881,669$2,600$3,600$4,975
198730$2,812$4,500$10,000

Years with fewer than 30 permits are not shown.

Against our price guide

The 2025 median of $15,000 falls inside our guide range of $7,000 to $15,500. 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
San Francisco permits, 2025 (25th pct, median, 75th pct)$10,800$15,000$20,000
Our guide, 2,000 sq ft asphalt, national base (no city index)$7,000–$15,500

What the permit file says

  • In 2025, San Francisco issued 3,107 re-roof permits that passed our filters.
  • Half of them declared between $10,800 and $20,000.
  • The median declared value in 2025 was $15,000.
  • The top quarter of permits declared $20,000 or more, 1.9 times the figure for the bottom quarter ($10,800 or less).
  • Across all published years the file holds 105,781 permits for San Francisco.
  • The busiest published year was 1996 with 5,227 permits.
  • The portal is Building Permits on data.sf.gov; the city updated it on October 8, 2026.
  • The latest permit in the extract was issued on October 1, 2026.
  • 60 percent of the permit rows matching a roof word survived our filters (177,647 matches, 105,847 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 San Francisco).
  • The median moved from $4,500 in 1987 to $15,000 in 2025, up 233 percent.
  • 2026 so far: 1,381 permits, median $15,000 (data through October 1, 2026).

Scope in this city: existing use 1-2 family dwelling.

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. 177,647 rows matched a roof word and 105,847 remained (60 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: Building Permits (data.sf.gov). License: Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License.

Questions

What did re-roof permits in San Francisco declare in 2025?

3,107 permits passed our filters. The median declared value was $15,000, and half of the permits declared $10,800 to $20,000.

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 San Francisco?

The 2025 median of $15,000 falls inside our guide range of $7,000 to $15,500. 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, Building Permits (data.sf.gov, dataset i98e-djp9), 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 San Francisco? Describe the job once and we send it to one local roofer, not five.

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