$2.93B a year in installed residential roofing demand across 27 metro and micropolitan areas — #7 of 52 (the 50 states, DC and Puerto Rico).
The New York roofing market is about $2.93B a year in installed residential demand (4.3% of the US total), ranking #7 of 52 states and jurisdictions (the 50 states, DC and Puerto Rico, where modeled). The largest metro is New York, NY at $1.51B of New York demand. Statewide, the market is roughly 172,554 jobs a year: $2.80B replacement on existing homes and $131.02M new single-family construction.
Every modeled metro with homes in New York. A metro that crosses a state line shows only the share of its demand inside New York; 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 | New York, NY (51% in NY) | $1.51B | 51.4% | 66.1 | $4.76M | Land Grab |
| 2 | Buffalo, NY | $308.55M | 10.5% | 61.1 | $3.96M | Wide Open |
| 3 | Albany, NY | $243.26M | 8.3% | 67.7 | $5.53M | Land Grab |
| 4 | Rochester, NY | $175.01M | 6.0% | 56.6 | $2.57M | Balanced |
| 5 | Syracuse, NY | $144.69M | 4.9% | 62.2 | $3.53M | Wide Open |
| 6 | Kiryas Joel, NY | $103.13M | 3.5% | 54.8 | $2.19M | Balanced |
| 7 | Binghamton, NY | $83.48M | 2.8% | 61.5 | $4.17M | Balanced |
| 8 | Utica, NY | $51.48M | 1.8% | 55.1 | $3.22M | Wide Open |
| 9 | Kingston, NY | $37.64M | 1.3% | 57.3 | $3.14M | Wide Open |
| 10 | Jamestown, NY | $31.66M | 1.1% | 52.2 | $3.52M | Wide Open |
| 11 | Glens Falls, NY | $24.25M | 0.8% | 53.9 | $3.03M | Wide Open |
| 12 | Massena, NY | $18.85M | 0.6% | 53.8 | $9.42M | Land Grab |
| 13 | Corning, NY | $17.49M | 0.6% | 47.2 | $4.37M | Land Grab |
| 14 | Hudson, NY | $17.30M | 0.6% | 55.3 | $5.77M | Land Grab |
| 15 | Monticello, NY | $17.15M | 0.6% | 55.1 | $4.29M | Wide Open |
| 16 | Auburn, NY | $16.23M | 0.6% | 48.6 | $2.32M | Crowded |
| 17 | Elmira, NY | $15.87M | 0.5% | 43.8 | $2.65M | Balanced |
| 18 | Ithaca, NY | $15.55M | 0.5% | 51.1 | $15.55M | Land Grab |
| 19 | Watertown, NY | $15.33M | 0.5% | 47.3 | $2.19M | Balanced |
| 20 | Olean, NY | $14.73M | 0.5% | 43.9 | $4.91M | Land Grab |
| 21 | Plattsburgh, NY | $13.06M | 0.4% | 48.1 | $4.35M | Land Grab |
| 22 | Gloversville, NY | $12.11M | 0.4% | 50.2 | $12.11M | Land Grab |
| 23 | Batavia, NY | $11.37M | 0.4% | 44.0 | $3.79M | Land Grab |
| 24 | Oneonta, NY | $11.23M | 0.4% | 50.9 | $11.23M | Land Grab |
| 25 | Amsterdam, NY | $8.72M | 0.3% | 37.4 | $2.18M | Balanced |
| 26 | Cortland, NY | $8.61M | 0.3% | 41.2 | $4.30M | Wide Open |
| 27 | Seneca Falls, NY | $6.27M | 0.2% | 33.7 | $3.13M | Wide Open |
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New York's metro areas had 3,360,902 single-family detached homes in the 2019–23 Census survey, against 3,306,512 in 2014–18: the stock grew 1.6% over five years. Population changed +1.4% 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, 27 metros whose primary state is New York and that report every year.
NOAA Storm Events, 26 metros, every year loaded. Hail pulls roofing replacement forward.
The New York roofing market is about $2.93B a year in installed residential demand (4.3% of the US total), ranking #7 of 52 states and jurisdictions (the 50 states, DC and Puerto Rico, where modeled). The largest metro is New York, NY at $1.51B of New York demand. Statewide, the market is roughly 172,554 jobs a year: $2.80B replacement on existing homes and $131.02M new single-family construction.
New York, NY $1.51B; Buffalo, NY $308.55M; Albany, NY $243.26M; Rochester, NY $175.01M; Syracuse, NY $144.69M. 27 metro and micropolitan areas in New York 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): Albany, NY 67.7; New York, NY 66.1; Syracuse, NY 62.2. 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 New York's metros: 11 Land Grab; 9 Wide Open; 6 Balanced; 1 Crowded. Land Grab is the least crowded cohort nationally, Knife Fight the most.
New York's metro areas had 3,360,902 single-family detached homes in the 2019–23 Census survey, against 3,306,512 in 2014–18: the stock grew 1.6% over five years. Population changed +1.4% 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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NextTerritory (2026). New York Roofing Market Size. https://nextterritory.com/us-roofing-market/new-york. Licensed CC BY 4.0.
States ranked near New York, and the other exterior lines here.