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Roofing contractors in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL

The Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL metro area has 485 roofing contractors, or 1.45 per 10,000 residents.

What roofing work involves and how it is licensed is written once on the national roofing page. Florida publishes a business-level licence source for roofing, and the Florida page lists which classes count.

The facts

Roofing contractors in this metro
485
Per 10,000 residents
1.45 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
38
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
1
Licensed share, FL portion of this metro
9.3%
Share of this metro’s entities excluded as out-of-state: 0.0%. Florida issues both individual and qualified-business records, and qualified-business rows carry no trade code of their own. Only 12.4% of them resolve to a trade through the qualifying agent, so the Florida share is built in practice on individual certified licensees.
Active licenses with no public listing
448
Verify any single record at the board: DBPR licensee search.
Employment and pay for this trade
3,380 employed, $47,170 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Roofers. Median hourly wage $22.68.
Independent, franchise, corporate
475 independent, 0 franchise brand, 7 corporate owned, 3 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
1.02% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.21% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 3,342,963, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023. State license files, as of September 2, 2026. BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 OEWS, published May 15, 2026, SOC 47-2181.

Row definitions: methodology page.

What these numbers say about roofing in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater

By record count, roofing is the eighth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, behind painting and ahead of pest control. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater.

Per resident, Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater sits close to the Florida rate for roofing, so the count at the top of this page reads as ordinary for the state.

The independent share of Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater's roofing records is close to the Florida figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.

Far fewer of Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater's roofing records are missing a street address than across Florida.

The share of Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater's roofing records linking to an active state licence is close to the Florida figure for the same trade.

Almost every Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater roofing record sits inside Florida, the state the licensed share is computed inside, so that share covers nearly the whole metro.

Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater has a count of roofing licences issued in the last twelve months but no observable lapse count, so the issued figure is published alone rather than turned into a churn rate it cannot support.

Some active Florida licences covering roofing in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater have no matching record in open place data, deduplicated on the licence, and none of those licences appear in the list below.

The occupational series the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes for this trade counts 3,380 workers across Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, and this site publishes 485 roofing records here. The two count different things, one an occupation across every employer and the other the businesses on this site, so they stand side by side rather than one against the other.

Of the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater roofing records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands.

Almost none of Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater's roofing records are waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts above describe nearly the whole list.

More roofing records first appeared in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater over the last twelve months than were flagged closed, so the file for this trade and metro grew. A record appears when the source learns of a business, which is a different event from a business opening.

No city inside Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater differs from the metro enough on roofing to carry a page of its own, so every record here is answered on this page.

Among the 16 Florida metro areas this site publishes a roofing page for, Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater is 13th of 16 by records per resident, in the bottom quarter. The field is the metro areas this site publishes a roofing page for rather than every metro area in Florida.

Ordered by roofing records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a roofing page for, the hubs either side of Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater are Shreveport-Bossier City above it and Fargo below it.

Roofing contractors, A to Z

473 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship. This page shows the first 300 alphabetically; the rest are on the 1 further pages linked below, not withheld.

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