Township brief
Wheeling Township, measured.
36,833 residential parcels on the official record. Median home built 1965. 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.
36,833Homes on the county recordAssessor
1965Median year builtAssessor
3,814Homes with a roof permit on file (10.4%)County permits
31,000–31,500Homes 25+ yrs old with no roof permit on fileDerived · estimate
The stock
What Wheeling's housing is made of.
79.7% of Wheeling's homes predate 1980. 97.7% carry asphalt-shingle roofs, 19.8% are masonry-walled (not a siding market), and 87.5% have a full or partial basement. 93.1% are owner-occupied.
Flood exposure: 527 homes sit in a FEMA Special Flood Hazard Area, while 2,519 (6.8%) carry a First Street flood factor of 5+ — water risk beyond the mapped floodplain.
The read for contractors
The 31,000–31,500 homes at 25+ years with no roof permit on file are where Wheeling's replacement cycle is furthest along — that cohort, minus fresh permits, is the campaign surface.
Stock profileAssessor · county permits
Re-roof waves
Wheeling's permit history has a shape.
Roof permits in Wheeling 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 | 932 |
| 2024 | 802 |
| 2022 | 774 |
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