2026 Q3 data
Roof replacement cost in San Luis Obispo, CA
San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA metro area
How much does a new roof cost in San Luis Obispo, CA?
$13,400 – $24,100
Typical $18,700 · architectural shingles · 2,000 sq ft home
That is $530 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 San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA metro costs $428 to $632 per square installed (typical $530) on the 2026 Q3 Roof Cost Index: -3.9% against the California figure of $552 and +6.0% against the US typical of $500. Metro rank 48 of 263 (1 = most expensive).
Material is priced nationally; labor is scaled by the local roofer wage. Roofers here earn a mean $30.54/hour (median $30.30, 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 San Luis Obispo, CA
| Material, per square | Low | Typical | High |
|---|---|---|---|
| Architectural shingles | $428 | $530 | $632 |
| 3-tab shingles | $299 | $378 | $458 |
| Standing seam metal | $946 | $1,310 | $1,674 |
| Metal panel | $537 | $956 | $1,374 |
| Tile | $746 | $1,902 | $3,058 |
| Slate | $1,037 | $2,083 | $3,130 |
| Flat membrane | $269 | $505 | $742 |
This page is generated from the 2026 Q3 Index for the BLS metropolitan statistical area "San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA" (area code 42020). State rank for California: 10 of 51. Methodology.
Roofing conditions in San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles
Housing age. The median home in the San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA metro was built in 1983, newer than the median metro in the Index (1982). 43.8% of homes were built before 1980 and 24.3% in 2000 or later; 62% of occupied homes are owner-occupied. Roof age, not house age, sets the replacement date.
Hail. NOAA's Storm Events database logged no county hail reports across the metro's 1 county from 2021 to 2025. It is one of 19 metros in the Index with none in that period.
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
- 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
- Bellingham, WA $531/sq · rank 46
- Racine-Mount Pleasant, WI $530/sq · rank 47
- Kahului-Wailuku, HI $530/sq · rank 49
- Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, WA $530/sq · rank 50
- South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI $530/sq · rank 51
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