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Roofing contractors in Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD

The Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD metro area has 1,026 roofing contractors, or 1.64 per 10,000 residents.

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

The facts

Roofing contractors in this metro
1,026
Per 10,000 residents
1.64 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
25
Records flagged closed in the last 12 months
4
Licensed share
Not published for this metro
There is no license source for this trade in Pennsylvania. 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
1,530 employed, $59,730 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Roofers. Median hourly wage $28.72.
Independent, franchise, corporate
1,002 independent, 1 franchise brand, 21 corporate owned, 2 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
0.77% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.19% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 6,246,160, 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 Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington

By record count, roofing is the eighth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, behind cleaning and ahead of painting. That ordering is a property of the source data's categories rather than a judgement about which trade matters most in Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington.

Per resident, Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington sits close to the Pennsylvania rate for roofing, so the count at the top of this page reads as ordinary for the state.

The independent share of Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington's roofing records is close to the Pennsylvania figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.

Far fewer of Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington's roofing records are missing a street address than across Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania publishes no business-level licence source for roofing that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington 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 Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, 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 1,530 workers across Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, and this site publishes 1,026 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 Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington roofing records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands.

Almost none of Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington'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 Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington 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 Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington 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 Pennsylvania metro areas this site publishes a roofing page for, Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington 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 Pennsylvania.

Ordered by roofing records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a roofing page for, the hubs either side of Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington are Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers above it and Jacksonville below it.

Roofing contractors, A to Z

1,005 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 3 further pages linked below, not withheld.

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