Township brief
Evanston Township, measured.
12,991 residential parcels on the official record. Median home built 1927. 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.
12,991Homes on the county recordAssessor
1927Median year builtAssessor
3,455Homes with a roof permit on file (26.6%)County permits
9,000–9,500Homes 25+ yrs old with no roof permit on fileDerived · estimate
The stock
What Evanston's housing is made of.
95.4% of Evanston's homes predate 1980. 85.2% carry asphalt-shingle roofs, 43.0% are masonry-walled (not a siding market), and 92.3% have a full or partial basement. 86.2% are owner-occupied.
Flood exposure: 4 homes sit in a FEMA Special Flood Hazard Area, while 3,029 (23.3%) carry a First Street flood factor of 5+ — water risk beyond the mapped floodplain.
The read for contractors
The 9,000–9,500 homes at 25+ years with no roof permit on file are where Evanston's replacement cycle is furthest along — that cohort, minus fresh permits, is the campaign surface.
Stock profileAssessor · county permits
Re-roof waves
Evanston's permit history has a shape.
Roof permits in Evanston 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
| Year | Roof permits |
|---|---|
| 2020 | 1,895 |
| 2021 | 757 |
| 2022 | 419 |
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