2026 Q3 data
Roof replacement cost in Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro area
How much does a new roof cost in Los Angeles, CA?
$13,800 – $24,600
Typical $19,200 · architectural shingles · 2,000 sq ft home
That is $549 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 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro costs $445 to $653 per square installed (typical $549) on the 2026 Q3 Roof Cost Index: -0.5% against the California figure of $552 and +9.8% against the US typical of $500. Metro rank 25 of 263 (1 = most expensive).
Material is priced nationally; labor is scaled by the local roofer wage. Roofers here earn a mean $32.16/hour (median $30.56, about 5,480 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 Los Angeles, CA
| Material, per square | Low | Typical | High |
|---|---|---|---|
| Architectural shingles | $445 | $549 | $653 |
| 3-tab shingles | $310 | $393 | $475 |
| Standing seam metal | $975 | $1,348 | $1,720 |
| Metal panel | $560 | $990 | $1,420 |
| Tile | $775 | $1,966 | $3,156 |
| Slate | $1,060 | $2,136 | $3,211 |
| Flat membrane | $280 | $524 | $768 |
This page is generated from the 2026 Q3 Index for the BLS metropolitan statistical area "Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA" (area code 31080). State rank for California: 10 of 51. Methodology.
Roofing conditions in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim
Housing age. The median home in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro was built in 1969, older than the median metro in the Index (1982). 67.1% of homes were built before 1980 and 13.1% in 2000 or later; 48% of occupied homes are owner-occupied. Roof age, not house age, sets the replacement date.
Hail. NOAA's Storm Events database logged 5 county hail reports across the metro's 2 counties from 2021 to 2025 (0 in 2021, 0 in 2022, 0 in 2023, 5 in 2024, 0 in 2025), rank 201 of 263 metros. From January 2021 to June 2026, 4 reports were stones of 1 inch or larger, and the largest was 1 inches. Most reports came from Los Angeles, California (5). 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
- 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
- Bakersfield-Delano $516/sq
- Chico $516/sq
- Yuba City $512/sq
- Merced $499/sq
Metros with a similar cost
- Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY $557/sq · rank 22
- Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT $557/sq · rank 23
- Ann Arbor, MI $549/sq · rank 26
- Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA $549/sq · rank 27
- Rochester, MN $548/sq · rank 28
More: how much a new roof costs, every state, the full Index.
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