2026 Q3 data
Roof replacement cost in New York, NY
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro area
How much does a new roof cost in New York, NY?
$15,100 – $26,200
Typical $20,600 · architectural shingles · 2,000 sq ft home
That is $606 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 New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro costs $498 to $715 per square installed (typical $606) on the 2026 Q3 Roof Cost Index: +7.8% against the New York figure of $563 and +21.3% against the US typical of $500. Metro rank 5 of 263 (1 = most expensive).
Material is priced nationally; labor is scaled by the local roofer wage. Roofers here earn a mean $37.10/hour (median $36.73, about 3,100 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.
This metro spans NY and NJ. It is listed under New York; see also New Jersey.
All materials in New York, NY
| Material, per square | Low | Typical | High |
|---|---|---|---|
| Architectural shingles | $498 | $606 | $715 |
| 3-tab shingles | $345 | $437 | $528 |
| Standing seam metal | $1,064 | $1,463 | $1,862 |
| Metal panel | $631 | $1,096 | $1,562 |
| Tile | $864 | $2,160 | $3,457 |
| Slate | $1,131 | $2,295 | $3,458 |
| Flat membrane | $315 | $581 | $847 |
This page is generated from the 2026 Q3 Index for the BLS metropolitan statistical area "New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ" (area code 35620). State rank for New York: 5 of 51. Methodology.
Roofing conditions in New York-Newark-Jersey City
Housing age. The median home in the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ metro was built in 1960, older than the median metro in the Index (1982). 73% of homes were built before 1980 and 13.4% in 2000 or later; 51% of occupied homes are owner-occupied. Roof age, not house age, sets the replacement date.
Hail. NOAA's Storm Events database logged 143 county hail reports across the metro's 22 counties from 2021 to 2025 (53 in 2021, 19 in 2022, 55 in 2023, 13 in 2024, 3 in 2025), rank 29 of 263 metros. From January 2021 to June 2026, 96 reports were stones of 1 inch or larger, and the largest was 2.5 inches. Most reports came from Monmouth, New Jersey (17), Ocean, New Jersey (17), Middlesex, New Jersey (16). 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 New York metros
- Albany-Schenectady-Troy $557/sq
- Utica-Rome $538/sq
- Buffalo-Cheektowaga $537/sq
- Syracuse $536/sq
- Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh $530/sq
- Glens Falls $510/sq
- Binghamton $504/sq
- Rochester $504/sq
- Elmira $489/sq
Metros with a similar cost
- Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN $628/sq · rank 2
- Springfield, IL $614/sq · rank 3
- Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT $613/sq · rank 4
- San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA $605/sq · rank 6
- Trenton-Princeton, NJ $603/sq · rank 7
- Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI $599/sq · rank 8
More: how much a new roof costs, every state, the full Index.
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