About Home Costs by State
Radif Partners builds each price on this site from three public data sets you can check yourself: what homeowners told the Census Bureau they paid for roofs, water heaters, furnaces and fences (American Housing Survey), the May 2025 wages the Bureau of Labor Statistics measured for roofers, plumbers and HVAC mechanics in every state, and the cost shares contractors reported in the 2022 Economic Census. No ZIP code, phone number or contractor referral sits between you and the figure.
Why this site exists
Most pages that answer "how much does a new roof cost" end in a form: a ZIP code, then a name and a phone number, and the price arrives later from a contractor who paid for the contact. This site does better than the first Google result for those searches because it gives the price at once, without a ZIP code or a phone number, from what homeowners actually paid according to the Census Bureau, adjusted to each state with the May 2025 BLS wages of the trade, and it publishes the method and the sources behind every figure.
Who publishes it
The site is published by Radif Partners, a company that builds calculators on public data. It is not a contractor, a lead service, a retailer, a manufacturer or a utility, and it has no commercial link with any of them. No page sells your request, no contractor is told that you looked, and there is no advertising on the site today.
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What we use, and what we refuse to use
We use what anyone can download and check: the American Housing Survey 2023 (2,217 professional roof jobs, 1,786 water heaters, 2,011 central air jobs among others), the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics of May 2025, the 2022 Economic Census, the Energy Information Administration's price series, and the solar data of the national laboratories. We refuse unsourced "average prices" from industry blogs, retailer prices we cannot read reliably, and estimates generated by software we cannot inspect. When a figure does not exist, we say so: there is, for example, no federal survey of heat pump prices on their own, and the heat pump page explains what we do instead.
How the site is checked
Each data file is rebuilt by a script from the official download, and the calculators are tested on known cases before every release. The method page gives the formula step by step, with a worked example, and lists what the numbers cannot know. The editorial policy explains how corrections are handled.
Contact
Questions, corrections and data suggestions: contact@homecostsbystate.com, or the contact page. We do not recommend contractors and cannot review a quote, but we read every message about a figure.