Township brief
Palatine Township, measured.
28,174 residential parcels on the official record. Median home built 1972. 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.
28,174Homes on the county recordAssessor
1972Median year builtAssessor
2,761Homes with a roof permit on file (9.8%)County permits
23,500–24,000Homes 25+ yrs old with no roof permit on fileDerived · estimate
The stock
What Palatine's housing is made of.
66.2% of Palatine's homes predate 1980. 94.9% carry asphalt-shingle roofs, 11.8% are masonry-walled (not a siding market), and 77.9% have a full or partial basement. 90.0% are owner-occupied.
Flood exposure: 125 homes sit in a FEMA Special Flood Hazard Area, while 1,468 (5.2%) carry a First Street flood factor of 5+ — water risk beyond the mapped floodplain.
The read for contractors
The 23,500–24,000 homes at 25+ years with no roof permit on file are where Palatine's replacement cycle is furthest along — that cohort, minus fresh permits, is the campaign surface.
Stock profileAssessor · county permits
Re-roof waves
Palatine's permit history has a shape.
Roof permits in Palatine 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 |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 1,041 |
| 2024 | 784 |
| 2020 | 366 |
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