2026 Q3 · metro rank 36 of 263
Roof replacement cost in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad
An architectural shingle roof in the San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA metro costs $540 per square installed on the 2026 Q3 Roof Cost Index: -2.2% against the California figure of $552 and +8.0% against the US typical of $500. Roofers here earn a mean $31.38/hour (median $29.90, about 1,830 employed), BLS May 2025. For a whole roof: an architectural shingle roof on a 2,000 sq ft single-story home (6/12 pitch, one layer torn off, permit and dumpster included) costs $13,583 to $24,393 here, typical $18,948.
All materials in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad
| Material | Low | Typical | High | US typical | vs US |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Architectural shingles | $437 | $540 | $643 | $500 | +8.0% |
| 3-tab shingles | $305 | $386 | $467 | $355 | +8.6% |
| Standing seam metal | $961 | $1,330 | $1,698 | $1,250 | +6.4% |
| Metal panel | $549 | $974 | $1,398 | $900 | +8.2% |
| Tile | $761 | $1,935 | $3,109 | $1,800 | +7.5% |
| Slate | $1,049 | $2,110 | $3,172 | $2,000 | +5.5% |
| Flat membrane | $275 | $515 | $755 | $475 | +8.4% |
This page is generated from the 2026 Q3 Index for the BLS metropolitan statistical area "San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA" (area code 41740). State rank for California: 10 of 51. Methodology.
Roofing conditions in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad
Housing age. The median home in the San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA metro was built in 1980, older than the median metro in the Index (1982). 49.5% of homes were built before 1980 and 20.5% in 2000 or later; 55% of occupied homes are owner-occupied. Roof age, not house age, sets the replacement date.
Hail. NOAA's Storm Events database logged 9 county hail reports across the metro's 1 county from 2021 to 2025 (5 in 2021, 2 in 2022, 0 in 2023, 2 in 2024, 0 in 2025), rank 179 of 263 metros. From January 2021 to June 2026, 1 reports were stones of 1 inch or larger, and the largest was 1 inches. Most reports came from San Diego, California (9). 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
- 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
- Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA $542/sq · rank 33
- Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA $542/sq · rank 34
- St. Louis, MO-IL $538/sq · rank 37
- Utica-Rome, NY $538/sq · rank 38
- Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY $537/sq · rank 39
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