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HyreRoof roofing data
What each study is built from, at what geography, and where it stops being reliable.
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The work is still reproducible today. Every study states its sources, retrieval dates and method on its own page, and the underlying data is public at the agencies listed below.
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The studies and what they are built from
| Study | Primary sources | Geography | Key limitation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Is Roofing Even Licensed Where You Live? | State licensing statutes and boards | State | Eight states read from the statute and the issuing authority. |
| Is There Really a Roofer Shortage? | BLS employment; Census housing counts | National, state | Includes the self-employment gap that makes most published roofer counts too low. |
| Roofing fatality atlas | BLS occupational fatality data | National, state | Small-count suppression applies in low-population states. |
| Roofing inflation index | BLS producer and consumer price series | National | Material and labour series move differently; the index states which is which. |
| The roof replacement window | Census American Housing Survey | National, state | Age of housing stock as a proxy for replacement demand, not a forecast. |
| Oldest housing stock by city | Census / AHS | City, metro | Metro-level figures are not city-limits figures. |
| The ice barrier line | Model code adoption; climate data | State, county | Where code requires ice barrier, and where local amendments go further. |
| Municipal roofing licensing | Municipal codes and permit portals | Municipal | Coverage is limited to jurisdictions that publish requirements. |
| Roofing contractor insurance requirements | State statutes and board rules | State | What states require of contractors, not what a given company carries. |
| Storm chaser roofing contractors | NOAA storm events; licensing records | County, state | Out-of-state activity following storm events. |
| Florida roofing market | FL DBPR; state insurance filings; NOAA | State | Single-state study; findings do not generalise. |
Each study page carries its own retrieval dates, full variable list and method. This table is the index, not the documentation.
Where the source data lives
- Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment, wages, occupational fatalities, price series
- Census American Housing Survey: housing stock and age
- NOAA Storm Events Database: hail and wind events
- FEMA: disaster declarations
- International Code Council: model code text
- State licensing boards and state insurance departments, named individually in each study
How to cite this research
Cite the study, not this page. The format we ask for:
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Licence and reuse
You are welcome to quote and reference our research with attribution and a link. A formal reuse licence has not been adopted yet; if you want to republish a dataset or a chart in full, ask us first and we will say yes or explain why not.
If you are here about your own roof
The datasets above are for people reusing our research. If you landed here trying to price or diagnose a roof instead, the calculators are the shorter route: the roof cost calculator for a budget range and the repair vs replacement calculator for the decision. Neither asks for your details, and the enquiry form is there when you want quotes.