Areas We Serve
Roofing in Geneseo, IL
The Housing Here
- 3,223 homes in Geneseo
- Median home built 1962
- 70 percent were built before 1980
- 73 percent owner occupied
Geneseo has one of the better preserved historic centers in the region and a residential stock to match, with seven in ten homes built before 1980 and real Victorian property among them.
Historic Houses Deserve the Right Material
The older houses in Geneseo have the roof shapes that came with nineteenth century architecture. Steep pitches, dormers, decorative courses and turrets on a few.
A flat modern three tab shingle on a house like that looks wrong from the street and always will. Designer asphalt, synthetic slate or metal shingles all keep the shadow and the texture the building was designed around.
What We Get Called For in Geneseo
- Historic house roofs where the look has to be right
- Low slope commercial work in the town center
- Storm claims across Henry County
The Numbers for Geneseo
Every figure below is a real Census estimate for this exact place. Nothing here is modeled, interpolated or borrowed from the county.
| Housing units | 3,223 |
|---|---|
| Population | 6,577 |
| Median year built | 1962 |
| Built before 1980 | 70 percent |
| Owner occupied | 73 percent |
| Median home value | $196,400 |
| Single family detached | 75 percent |
| Built | Homes | Share | Shape |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 or later | 12 | 0% | |
| 2010 to 2019 | 80 | 2% | |
| 2000 to 2009 | 296 | 9% | |
| 1990 to 1999 | 311 | 10% | |
| 1980 to 1989 | 266 | 8% | |
| 1970 to 1979 | 490 | 15% | |
| 1960 to 1969 | 200 | 6% | |
| 1950 to 1959 | 517 | 16% | |
| 1940 to 1949 | 217 | 7% | |
| 1939 or earlier | 834 | 26% |
Roof Check in Geneseo
No sales call. A roofer looks at the roof and tells you what it needs.