Replacement demand, competitive density and housing stock for roofing in Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC, on the same basis as every other US metro. Every figure is computed from current Census, BLS and NOAA data and traceable to its source.
How much roofing work the Hickory metro generates in a year, and what share of it a single branch or acquisition could realistically reach.
Computed from the component scores below — not written by hand, and not generated.
Hickory, NC has an unusually large pool of addressable homes, real construction activity relative to its size and storm exposure that pulls replacement forward. That works out to 90,066 addressable homes and an effective replacement cycle of about 14 years, or $134M of roofing a year.
Against that, the market has a mild climate that is easy on the envelope and household economics that will stretch to fund this work. Worth evaluating, though not obviously ahead of the alternatives — on these figures the market is raising its hand, not jumping out of its seat.
Seven components, each a percentile against all 935 US metros. The opportunity score is their weighted average, tilted toward what roofing specifically depends on.
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The Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC metro generates roughly $133.91M of roofing demand a year, across about 8,648 jobs. That combines replacement work on the existing housing stock — 90,066 homes that can buy this service, cycling at the typical replacement interval — with roofing work on new construction. A single operator serving part of the metro can realistically reach $73.65M of it.
Hickory scores 66.7 out of 100 for roofing, which ranks it 94 of 935 US metro areas. Hickory, NC has an unusually large pool of addressable homes, real construction activity relative to its size and storm exposure that pulls replacement forward.
There is no metro-level count of roofing firms specifically — the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes establishments at the trade-group level. For the Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC metro that is 567 specialty-trade contracting establishments (NAICS 238, covering roofing, siding, windows, gutters and the other exterior trades). That works out to 193.7 owner-occupied homes per contractor — the higher that number, the less crowded the market.
The average home in the Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC metro is about 42.9 years old, and 46% of homes predate 1980. The median year of construction is 1983 — that figure and the average age are two different statistics and will not line up exactly, because the average is a weighted mean across every construction-year band while the median is only the midpoint. Housing age is the single strongest driver of roofing replacement demand, because roofs, siding and windows are replaced on a cycle rather than bought on impulse.
Public sources only: the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey and Building Permits Survey for housing and households, the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages for contractor counts, and NOAA Storm Events and Climate Normals for hail and weather exposure. Market sizing applies published replacement cycles and average ticket prices to that stock — it is a model, not a measurement, and every assumption is visible inside the interactive report.
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Figures reflect the most recent published vintage of each source as of 2026-08-13. Market sizing is a model, not a measurement: it applies replacement cycles and average ticket prices to the housing stock. Service areas are whole metros, so a single branch serving a drive-time radius will address less than the totals shown.