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Roofing contractors in Raleigh-Cary, NC

The Raleigh-Cary, NC metro area has 242 roofing contractors, or 1.60 per 10,000 residents.

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

The facts

Roofing contractors in this metro
242
Per 10,000 residents
1.60 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
12
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
0
Licensed share
Not published for this metro
There is no license source for this trade in North Carolina. 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
580 employed, $50,720 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Roofers. Median hourly wage $24.39.
Independent, franchise, corporate
236 independent, 0 franchise brand, 4 corporate owned, 2 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.82% of source records merged as duplicates, 1.65% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 1,509,231, 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 Raleigh-Cary

By record count, roofing is the ninth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Raleigh-Cary, behind plumbing 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 Raleigh-Cary.

Per resident, Raleigh-Cary sits close to the North Carolina rate for roofing, so the count at the top of this page reads as ordinary for the state.

The independent share of Raleigh-Cary's roofing records is close to the North Carolina figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.

Far more of Raleigh-Cary's roofing records carry no street address than across North Carolina. What a blank street line is and is not is set out on the methodology page.

North Carolina publishes no business-level licence source for roofing that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Raleigh-Cary 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 Raleigh-Cary, 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 580 workers across Raleigh-Cary, and this site publishes 242 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 Raleigh-Cary roofing records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands.

Almost none of Raleigh-Cary'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 Raleigh-Cary 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 Raleigh-Cary 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 9 North Carolina metro areas this site publishes a roofing page for, Raleigh-Cary is 7th of 9 by records per resident, around the middle. The field is the metro areas this site publishes a roofing page for rather than every metro area in North Carolina.

Ordered by roofing records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a roofing page for, the hubs either side of Raleigh-Cary are Lubbock above it and Manchester-Nashua below it.

Roofing contractors, A to Z

241 publishable contractors. Ordering never depends on payment, claim status, license status, or any commercial relationship.

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