Township brief
Palos Township, measured.
14,008 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.
14,008Homes on the county recordAssessor
1972Median year builtAssessor
4,085Homes with a roof permit on file (29.2%)County permits
9,000–9,500Homes 25+ yrs old with no roof permit on fileDerived · estimate
The stock
What Palos's housing is made of.
67.9% of Palos's homes predate 1980. 95.9% carry asphalt-shingle roofs, 25.9% are masonry-walled (not a siding market), and 78.3% have a full or partial basement. 92.8% are owner-occupied.
Flood exposure: 133 homes sit in a FEMA Special Flood Hazard Area, while 2,900 (20.7%) 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 Palos's replacement cycle is furthest along — that cohort, minus fresh permits, is the campaign surface.
Stock profileAssessor · county permits
Re-roof waves
Palos's permit history has a shape.
Roof permits in Palos 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 |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 1,832 |
| 2025 | 921 |
| 2020 | 661 |
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