2026 Q3 data
Roof replacement cost in Bakersfield, CA
Bakersfield-Delano, CA metro area
How much does a new roof cost in Bakersfield, CA?
$13,000 – $23,800
Typical $18,400 · architectural shingles · 2,000 sq ft home
That is $516 per square (100 sq ft of roof) installed, above the US typical of $500.
How we got this number
An architectural shingle roof in the Bakersfield-Delano, CA metro costs $415 to $617 per square installed (typical $516) on the 2026 Q3 Roof Cost Index: -6.5% against the California figure of $552 and +3.2% against the US typical of $500. Metro rank 70 of 263 (1 = most expensive).
Material is priced nationally; labor is scaled by the local roofer wage. Roofers here earn a mean $29.32/hour (median $29.15, about 190 employed), BLS May 2025. The whole-roof range is for a 2,000 sq ft single-story home (6/12 pitch, one layer torn off, permit and dumpster included). Full methodology.
All materials in Bakersfield, CA
| Material, per square | Low | Typical | High |
|---|---|---|---|
| Architectural shingles | $415 | $516 | $617 |
| 3-tab shingles | $290 | $367 | $445 |
| Standing seam metal | $925 | $1,282 | $1,639 |
| Metal panel | $520 | $929 | $1,339 |
| Tile | $725 | $1,854 | $2,983 |
| Slate | $1,020 | $2,044 | $3,069 |
| Flat membrane | $260 | $491 | $722 |
This page is generated from the 2026 Q3 Index for the BLS metropolitan statistical area "Bakersfield-Delano, CA" (area code 12540). State rank for California: 10 of 51. Methodology.
Roofing conditions in Bakersfield-Delano
Housing age. The median home in the Bakersfield-Delano, CA metro was built in 1984, newer than the median metro in the Index (1982). 43% of homes were built before 1980 and 27.5% in 2000 or later; 60% of occupied homes are owner-occupied. Roof age, not house age, sets the replacement date.
Hail. NOAA's Storm Events database logged 2 county hail reports across the metro's 1 county from 2021 to 2025 (0 in 2021, 0 in 2022, 2 in 2023, 0 in 2024, 0 in 2025), rank 225 of 263 metros. From January 2021 to June 2026, 2 reports were stones of 1 inch or larger, and the largest was 1.75 inches. Most reports came from Kern, California (2). After a hail storm, read the roof insurance claim guide and how hail damages a roof.
Sources: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database (county hail reports 2021 to June 30, 2026); U.S. Census Bureau ACS 5-year estimates 2020-2024, tables B25035, B25034 and B25003; counties per OMB July 2023 metro definitions.
Other California metros
- San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara $605/sq
- San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont $590/sq
- Santa Rosa-Petaluma $566/sq
- Vallejo $551/sq
- Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim $549/sq
- Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom $547/sq
- Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura $541/sq
- San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad $540/sq
- Modesto $535/sq
- Stockton-Lodi $534/sq
- Salinas $533/sq
- San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles $530/sq
- Santa Cruz-Watsonville $529/sq
- Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario $529/sq
- Santa Maria-Santa Barbara $526/sq
- Fresno $525/sq
- Visalia $524/sq
- Redding $518/sq
- Chico $516/sq
- Yuba City $512/sq
- Merced $499/sq
Metros with a similar cost
- Champaign-Urbana, IL $518/sq · rank 68
- Bend, OR $518/sq · rank 69
- Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD $516/sq · rank 72
- Urban Honolulu, HI $514/sq · rank 73
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