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Roof replacement cost in Los Angeles, CA: what 19,304 permits declare

The median declared cost of roof replacement on Los Angeles building permits filed 2024–2026 is $5,200. Half of all permits fall between $3,600 and $7,500. The national sourced whole-project range on our roof replacement cost guide is $7,400–$10,500.
Median declared cost
$5,200
19,304 permits
Middle half
$3,600–$7,500
p25–p75
Full span after trimming
$501–$36,000
$500 floor, top 1% removed

Among the 16,029 permits that state a project size, the median is $200 per square.

Cost by project size

SizeMedian declared costPermits
0–20 square$3,0005,950
20–30 square$5,0006,561
30+ square$7,2003,457

How to read this

These figures are the project values applicants declared to the Los Angeles permitting office, which uses them to calculate permit fees. Declared values tend to sit below the final invoice, and jobs done without a permit are not counted at all. Read the median as a floor for a permitted roof replacement job in Los Angeles, then check it against the sourced national range and get local quotes.

Where the data comes from

Source: Los Angeles open-data portal, dataset pi9x-tg5x. Filter: residential permits issued 2024-09-09 to 2026-09-09 whose description matcheswork_desc like 'Re-roof%'. Compiled 2026-09-09. Full method on the methodology page; every cell is in the CSV download.