Territory
Township brief Territory Intelligence · Cook County, IL · refreshed with the county files

Elk Grove Township, measured.

18,296 residential parcels on the official record. Median home built 1963. Every figure below is computed from the county assessor's file, county roof permits, FEMA + First Street flood layers — aggregate only, and never a claim about any specific property.

18,296Homes on the county recordAssessor
1963Median year builtAssessor
2,367Homes with a roof permit on file (12.9%)County permits
15,500–16,000Homes 25+ yrs old with no roof permit on fileDerived · estimate

The stock

What Elk Grove's housing is made of.

93.5% of Elk Grove's homes predate 1980. 95.6% carry asphalt-shingle roofs, 23.5% are masonry-walled (not a siding market), and 69.6% have a full or partial basement. 91.8% are owner-occupied.

Flood exposure: 44 homes sit in a FEMA Special Flood Hazard Area, while 1,024 (5.6%) carry a First Street flood factor of 5+ — water risk beyond the mapped floodplain.

The read for contractors

The 15,500–16,000 homes at 25+ years with no roof permit on file are where Elk Grove's replacement cycle is furthest along — that cohort, minus fresh permits, is the campaign surface.

Stock profileAssessor · county permits
Pre-198093.5%
Asphalt roofs95.6%
Owner-occupied91.8%
Masonry walls23.5%
Basements69.6%
Flood factor 5+5.6%

Re-roof waves

Elk Grove's permit history has a shape.

Roof permits in Elk Grove cluster into waves — the county file shows the biggest recent years to the right. Homes that didn't replace during a wave are aging on the same clock as the neighbors that did.

The read for contractors

Campaign the non-replacers inside a past wave's footprint — demand that already proved itself once tends to prove itself again.

Biggest recent permit yearsCounty roof permits
YearRoof permits
2025654
2020522
2024476

Want Elk Grove scored neighborhood by neighborhood?

This page is the township-level read. The Territory X-Ray ranks every Elk Grove neighborhood on the full model — roof age and size, storm cohort, permit suppression, ownership — with the first campaign chosen.

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