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Roofing contractors in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN

The Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN metro area has 1,470 roofing contractors, or 1.59 per 10,000 residents.

What roofing work involves and how it is licensed is written once on the national roofing page. Illinois publishes no business-level licence source for roofing, so this page shows no licensed share; the Illinois page says what it does publish.

The facts

Roofing contractors in this metro
1,470
Per 10,000 residents
1.59 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
43
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
6
Licensed share
Not published for this metro
There is no license source for this trade in Illinois. No roofing record on this page is described one way or the other on the strength of a missing file.
Employment and pay for this trade
3,900 employed, $82,090 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Roofers. Median hourly wage $39.47.
Independent, franchise, corporate
1,450 independent, 0 franchise brand, 14 corporate owned, 6 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.88% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.48% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 9,262,825, Census Bureau Vintage 2023 population estimates, as of July 1, 2023. 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 Chicago-Naperville-Elgin

By record count, roofing is the ninth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, 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 Chicago-Naperville-Elgin.

Per resident, Chicago-Naperville-Elgin sits close to the Illinois rate for roofing, so the count at the top of this page reads as ordinary for the state.

The independent share of Chicago-Naperville-Elgin's roofing records is close to the Illinois figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.

More of Chicago-Naperville-Elgin's roofing records carry no street address than across Illinois.

Illinois publishes no business-level licence source for roofing that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Chicago-Naperville-Elgin is shown as not published rather than as zero, and no roofing record on this page is described one way or the other on the strength of a file that does not exist.

No licence issuance or lapse figure is published for roofing in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, so no churn figure appears on this page rather than a zero standing in for one.

The occupational series the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes for this trade counts 3,900 workers across Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, and this site publishes 1,470 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 Chicago-Naperville-Elgin roofing records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands.

Almost none of Chicago-Naperville-Elgin'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 Chicago-Naperville-Elgin 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 Chicago-Naperville-Elgin 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 3 Illinois metro areas this site publishes a roofing page for, Chicago-Naperville-Elgin carries the fewest records per resident. The field is the metro areas this site publishes a roofing page for rather than every metro area in Illinois.

Ordered by roofing records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a roofing page for, the hubs either side of Chicago-Naperville-Elgin are Manchester-Nashua above it and Huntington-Ashland below it.

Roofing contractors, A to Z

1,447 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 4 further pages linked below, not withheld.

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