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Roofing contractors in Providence-Warwick, RI-MA

The Providence-Warwick, RI-MA metro area has 250 roofing contractors, or 1.49 per 10,000 residents.

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

The facts

Roofing contractors in this metro
250
Per 10,000 residents
1.49 per 10,000
Records first appearing in the last 12 months
5
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 Rhode Island. 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
460 employed, $61,560 median annual wage
Occupation as the Bureau of Labor Statistics titles it: Roofers. Median hourly wage $29.60.
Independent, franchise, corporate
249 independent, 0 franchise brand, 1 corporate owned, 0 awaiting chain review
Universe quality
1.19% of source records merged as duplicates, 0.40% carry no street address

Sources and dates: Foursquare Open Source Places, release August 11, 2026. Population 1,677,803, 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 Providence-Warwick

By record count, roofing is the ninth largest of the 11 trades this site counts in Providence-Warwick, behind cleaning 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 Providence-Warwick.

Per resident, Providence-Warwick sits close to the Rhode Island rate for roofing, so the count at the top of this page reads as ordinary for the state.

The independent share of Providence-Warwick's roofing records is close to the Rhode Island figure, so the mix of independent, franchise-brand and corporate-owned records here is ordinary for the state.

Far fewer of Providence-Warwick's roofing records are missing a street address than across Rhode Island.

Rhode Island publishes no business-level licence source for roofing that a listing can be matched against, so the licensed share for Providence-Warwick 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 Providence-Warwick, 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 460 workers across Providence-Warwick, and this site publishes 250 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 Providence-Warwick roofing records that are not independent, corporate-owned locations outnumber franchise brands.

No Providence-Warwick roofing record is waiting on chain review, so the independent, franchise and corporate counts above account for the whole list.

More roofing records first appeared in Providence-Warwick 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 Providence-Warwick differs from the metro enough on roofing to carry a page of its own, so every record here is answered on this page.

Providence-Warwick is the only Rhode Island metro area this site publishes a roofing page for, so there is no second Rhode Island hub of this trade to rank it against.

Ordered by roofing records per resident across every metro area this site publishes a roofing page for, the hubs either side of Providence-Warwick are Clarksville above it and Rochester below it.

Roofing contractors, A to Z

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

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