InstaBidsHow long does a tile roof last?
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) puts clay and cementitious barrel tile roofs at 60 years in the Family and Elderly columns of its multifamily planning table, not a measured life of a tile roof on a house (structured on the ASTM E2018-08 outline, no issue date, read 2026-10-17, national, multifamily, n not published by the source).
Source: HUD CNA e-Tool EUL table, read 17 October 2026.
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In the public 2020 microdata of the home energy survey run by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), 7.0% of US households other than those in apartment buildings with 5 or more units had a roof whose major material was “Ceramic or clay tiles” or “Concrete tiles” (EIA RECS 2020, read 2026-10-17, n = 16,057, SE 0.2 points). Of the same US households, 4.9% had “Ceramic or clay tiles” (EIA RECS 2020, read 2026-10-17, n = 16,057, SE 0.2 points) and 2.1% had “Concrete tiles” (EIA RECS 2020, read 2026-10-17, n = 16,057, SE 0.1 points). EIA imputed the material for 7.9% of the US households counted. Computed by InstaBids, these shares show how common tile was in 2020; none of them is a lifespan.
In our own counts, n is the number of surveyed households behind a share and SE is its standard error, a measure of sampling error, in percentage points.
How long it lasts, by source
- HUD files “Clay/cementitious barrel tile” among its sloped roofs, at 60 years in the Family column and 60 in the Elderly column (structured on the ASTM E2018-08 outline, no issue date, read 2026-10-17, national, multifamily, n not published by the source). The row names barrel tile only; like every figure in that table, the 60 years serve capital-needs planning in multifamily buildings and are not a measured life.
In Florida
Among Florida households other than those in apartment buildings with 5 or more units, 15.8% had “Ceramic or clay tiles” or “Concrete tiles” as the major roofing material (EIA RECS 2020, read 2026-10-17, n = 547, SE 1.3 points), with EIA imputing that answer for 7.7% of the Florida households counted.
Split by material, 11.4% of the same Florida households other than those in apartment buildings with 5 or more units had “Ceramic or clay tiles” (EIA RECS 2020, read 2026-10-17, n = 547, SE 1.2 points) and 4.4% had “Concrete tiles” (EIA RECS 2020, read 2026-10-17, n = 547, SE 1.1 points).
By housing type, 15.8% of Florida households in a single-family house detached from any other house (EIA RECS 2020, read 2026-10-17, n = 408, SE 1.5 points) and 24.1% of Florida households in a single-family house attached to one or more other houses (EIA RECS 2020, read 2026-10-17, n = 61, SE 5.8 points) had “Ceramic or clay tiles” or “Concrete tiles” as the major roofing material. EIA imputed the roofing answer for 3.9% of the detached-house Florida households counted and 16.4% of the attached-house Florida households counted.
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Sources for the figures on this page
- U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, CNA e-Tool Estimated Useful Life Table, read 17 October 2026. U.S. government work, public domain.
- U.S. Energy Information Administration, 2020 Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS), public-use microdata file v7, read 17 October 2026. U.S. government work, public domain; EIA credited as the source. Microdata file: recs2020_public_v7.csv.