Last updated: October 18, 2026
1. Three kinds of numbers, three kinds of sources
Every number on this site comes from one of three places, and we never mix them: the American Housing Survey (what owners said they paid), city building-permit records (what was listed on the permit), and reports that homeowners send us. This page lists each source, the changes we made to the records, and what each city's data terms require us to tell you.
2. The survey: American Housing Survey
Source
American Housing Survey 2023 (and 2021 where a page says so), U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The survey asks owners of single-family homes what their home improvement jobs cost. Each number on our pages covers a metro area with its suburbs, not the city limits.
What we kept
Roof replacement jobs done from 2021 to mid-2023, where someone outside the household did most of the work, and the price of the whole job, including any part an insurance company paid.
What we left out
Amounts under $1,000, which are too low for a new roof, and amounts the Census Bureau filled in itself when an owner didn't answer.
How we counted
We counted the medians and ranges ourselves from the public survey files. Most owners gave a round number, like $12,000. Where a metro area has fewer than 30 roofs in the survey, the page says so. The Census Bureau did not make or check this site.
3. City permit records we use
A permit value is the amount written on a building permit. It is not a price and not what the homeowner finally paid. We show permit values only for cities whose data terms let us. In every city we removed names and street addresses before we worked with the records, and we never show addresses, names, parcel numbers, permit numbers or exact dates.
New York City
Source: NYC Department of Buildings job filings via NYC Open Data, exported October 7, 2026. Of about 96,000 house job filings that mention a roof, most are solar panels. We kept the 404 filings that describe replacing the roof itself on a house with 1 to 3 families, filed from 2000 to 2025, and that got a permit. We left out solar work, repairs, jobs that mixed the roof with other work, filings that never got a permit, and amounts under $1,000. Where the job description gave the roof size, we read it from there. New York City moved to a new filing system in 2021; it has only a few dozen roof-only filings on houses so far, so we don't show them yet. The City of New York does not vouch for the accuracy of this data and did not make or check this site.
Dallas
Source: City of Dallas, DallasNow permit records (Residential Roofing Permit, Development Services), exported October 7, 2026. Of 3,080 roofing permits on one- and two-family homes since May 2025, we kept 1,959: permits that were issued (not denied, withdrawn or expired) and list an amount between $1,000 and $500,000. We left out 524 that were never issued or expired, 589 with no amount, 6 under $1,000 and 1 over $500,000. We read the roof size, deck and covering from the permit's own fields. The City of Dallas does not vouch for the accuracy of this data and did not make or check this site.
Fort Worth
Source: CFW Development Permits Table, City of Fort Worth open data, licensed under CC BY 4.0, exported October 2026. Of 899 roof permits filed since 2021, we kept the 603 the city issued for replacing a home roof. We left out repairs, partial jobs, garages and sheds on their own, fire damage, apartment buildings, solar work, amounts under $1,000 and 2 amounts over $500,000. We converted 8 roof sizes from roofing squares to square feet. These are our changes to the city's records; the licence asks us to say so. The City of Fort Worth does not warrant this data in any way and provides it "as is" (city data terms). The City of Fort Worth did not make or check this site, and nothing here is a city product or carries the city's endorsement.
San Antonio
Source: City of San Antonio open data, Building Permits, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY), permits issued July 2020 to September 2026. We show counts only: how many roof permits the city issued each year. We counted them by year; we didn't use any amounts. The city provides the data as is. The City of San Antonio did not make or check this site.
4. Cities where we don't use permit records, and why
Some cities publish permit records that we chose not to use. On those pages you see only the survey and homeowner reports, and the page says so.
- Chicago, Los Angeles, San Diego. Each city's data terms ask anyone who uses the records to defend the city in court and pay its legal costs if someone sues over how the data was used. That is a risk with no upper limit, so we don't use these records.
- Phoenix. Arizona law puts extra conditions on using public records for a business purpose. We don't use Phoenix permit records.
- Philadelphia. The city's terms of use don't allow commercial use without the city's written permission. We don't use Philadelphia permit records.
- Houston. The city publishes no permit amounts, so there is nothing to show.
5. Homeowner reports
Readers send us estimates and bills with our form. We read each one before it appears, but we don't see the estimate or the bill, so we can't check the amount or the details. They are marked "reported by the homeowner". A median shows only when at least 10 approved reports match: 10 estimates or 10 final bills, never mixed. What we save, and don't, is in our Privacy Policy.
6. Not affiliated, and how to reach us
HomeFixPaid is not connected with any city, contractor, brand or manufacturer, and nobody pays us to be listed. If a city asks us to stop showing its records, we will. If you find a mistake, or a permit on this site is about your home and you want it removed, email us and we will take care of it.