2026 Q3 data
Roof replacement cost in Santa Maria, CA
Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA metro area
How much does a new roof cost in Santa Maria, CA?
$13,300 – $24,000
Typical $18,600 · architectural shingles · 2,000 sq ft home
That is $526 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 Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA metro costs $424 to $628 per square installed (typical $526) on the 2026 Q3 Roof Cost Index: -4.7% against the California figure of $552 and +5.2% against the US typical of $500. Metro rank 58 of 263 (1 = most expensive).
Material is priced nationally; labor is scaled by the local roofer wage. Roofers here earn a mean $30.19/hour (median $29.51, about 390 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 Santa Maria, CA
| Material, per square | Low | Typical | High |
|---|---|---|---|
| Architectural shingles | $424 | $526 | $628 |
| 3-tab shingles | $296 | $375 | $454 |
| Standing seam metal | $940 | $1,302 | $1,664 |
| Metal panel | $532 | $948 | $1,364 |
| Tile | $740 | $1,888 | $3,036 |
| Slate | $1,032 | $2,072 | $3,112 |
| Flat membrane | $266 | $501 | $736 |
This page is generated from the 2026 Q3 Index for the BLS metropolitan statistical area "Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA" (area code 42200). State rank for California: 10 of 51. Methodology.
Roofing conditions in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara
Housing age. The median home in the Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA metro was built in 1974, older than the median metro in the Index (1982). 60% of homes were built before 1980 and 15.7% in 2000 or later; 52% 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
- San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles $530/sq
- Santa Cruz-Watsonville $529/sq
- Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario $529/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
- Jefferson City, MO $527/sq · rank 55
- Janesville-Beloit, WI $527/sq · rank 56
- Manchester-Nashua, NH $526/sq · rank 57
- Bozeman, MT $522/sq · rank 61
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