Township brief
River Forest Township, measured.
2,965 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.
2,965Homes on the county recordAssessor
1927Median year builtAssessor
312Homes with a roof permit on file (10.5%)County permits
2,500–3,000Homes 25+ yrs old with no roof permit on fileDerived · estimate
The stock
What River Forest's housing is made of.
94.9% of River Forest's homes predate 1980. 78.0% carry asphalt-shingle roofs, 52.4% are masonry-walled (not a siding market), and 97.1% have a full or partial basement. 93.4% are owner-occupied.
Flood exposure: 3 homes sit in a FEMA Special Flood Hazard Area, while 263 (8.9%) carry a First Street flood factor of 5+ — water risk beyond the mapped floodplain.
The read for contractors
The 2,500–3,000 homes at 25+ years with no roof permit on file are where River Forest's replacement cycle is furthest along — that cohort, minus fresh permits, is the campaign surface.
Stock profileAssessor · county permits
Re-roof waves
River Forest's permit history has a shape.
Roof permits in River Forest 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 |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 126 |
| 2024 | 120 |
| 2023 | 58 |
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