$798.05M a year in installed residential roofing demand across 20 metro and micropolitan areas — #29 of 52 (the 50 states, DC and Puerto Rico).
The Kansas roofing market is about $798.05M a year in installed residential demand (1.2% of the US total), ranking #29 of 52 states and jurisdictions (the 50 states, DC and Puerto Rico, where modeled). The largest metro is Kansas City, MO at $277.69M of Kansas demand. Statewide, the market is roughly 47,540 jobs a year: $750.80M replacement on existing homes and $47.25M new single-family construction.
Every modeled metro with homes in Kansas. A metro that crosses a state line shows only the share of its demand inside Kansas; firm counts, scores and saturation describe the whole metro. Each links to its full market file.
| # | Metro | Annual demand | Share of state | Opportunity score | Demand / firm | Saturation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kansas City, MO (39% in KS) | $277.69M | 34.8% | 75.1 | $2.88M | Balanced |
| 2 | Wichita, KS | $207.15M | 26.0% | 74.0 | $2.84M | Crowded |
| 3 | Topeka, KS | $88.10M | 11.0% | 66.5 | $2.84M | Balanced |
| 4 | Manhattan, KS | $29.86M | 3.7% | 63.8 | $1.99M | Knife Fight |
| 5 | Lawrence, KS | $27.67M | 3.5% | 60.7 | $2.77M | Crowded |
| 6 | Hutchinson, KS | $23.73M | 3.0% | 55.5 | $2.64M | Balanced |
| 7 | Salina, KS | $23.45M | 2.9% | 66.6 | $4.69M | Land Grab |
| 8 | Arkansas City, KS | $13.30M | 1.7% | 57.6 | $13.30M | Wide Open |
| 9 | Pittsburg, KS | $12.39M | 1.6% | 48.8 | $2.48M | Crowded |
| 10 | McPherson, KS | $12.34M | 1.5% | 64.0 | $12.34M | Land Grab |
| 11 | Emporia, KS | $11.96M | 1.5% | 51.1 | $2.99M | Balanced |
| 12 | Dodge City, KS | $10.49M | 1.3% | 59.5 | $2.62M | Balanced |
| 13 | Ottawa, KS | $10.13M | 1.3% | 54.8 | $1.27M | Knife Fight |
| 14 | Hays, KS | $9.76M | 1.2% | 46.5 | $1.95M | Knife Fight |
| 15 | Garden City, KS | $9.64M | 1.2% | 44.3 | $2.41M | Balanced |
| 16 | Great Bend, KS | $9.62M | 1.2% | 46.2 | $3.21M | Crowded |
| 17 | Joplin, MO (11% in KS) | $7.21M | 0.9% | 69.1 | $3.59M | Crowded |
| 18 | Atchison, KS | $5.62M | 0.7% | 47.8 | $5.62M | Land Grab |
| 19 | Liberal, KS | $5.61M | 0.7% | 41.9 | $2.81M | Crowded |
| 20 | St. Joseph, MO (7% in KS) | $2.31M | 0.3% | 57.1 | $2.88M | Crowded |
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Kansas's metro areas had 748,651 single-family detached homes in the 2019–23 Census survey, against 737,980 in 2014–18: the stock grew 1.4% over five years. Population changed +1.7% over the same years. Those homes are the base roofing replacement demand is sized on. The dollar market size itself has no measured history, so no growth rate is published for it.
Census Building Permits Survey, 17 metros whose primary state is Kansas and that report every year.
NOAA Storm Events, 17 metros, every year loaded. Hail pulls roofing replacement forward.
The Kansas roofing market is about $798.05M a year in installed residential demand (1.2% of the US total), ranking #29 of 52 states and jurisdictions (the 50 states, DC and Puerto Rico, where modeled). The largest metro is Kansas City, MO at $277.69M of Kansas demand. Statewide, the market is roughly 47,540 jobs a year: $750.80M replacement on existing homes and $47.25M new single-family construction.
Kansas City, MO $277.69M; Wichita, KS $207.15M; Topeka, KS $88.10M; Manhattan, KS $29.86M; Lawrence, KS $27.67M. 20 metro and micropolitan areas in Kansas are modeled.
By NextTerritory's opportunity score (0-100, a national percentile blend of seven components: market size, growth, affluence, storm exposure, climate, housing age and competition): Kansas City, MO 75.1; Wichita, KS 74.0; Joplin, MO 69.1. The score is the same national scale for every metro, so it compares across state lines.
Saturation compares each metro's annual roofing demand with its count of specialty contractor establishments (BLS QCEW). Across Kansas's metros: 3 Land Grab; 1 Wide Open; 6 Balanced; 7 Crowded; 3 Knife Fight. Land Grab is the least crowded cohort nationally, Knife Fight the most.
Kansas's metro areas had 748,651 single-family detached homes in the 2019–23 Census survey, against 737,980 in 2014–18: the stock grew 1.4% over five years. Population changed +1.7% over the same years. Those homes are the base roofing replacement demand is sized on. The dollar market size itself has no measured history, so no growth rate is published for it.
Bottom-up, metro by metro: owner-occupied single-family homes divided by the line's service life, adjusted for housing age and hail exposure, priced at the model's average ticket, plus single-family permits at a builder price. Metros that cross a state line are split by single-family housing in each county. Rural counties outside a metro are not modeled.
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