Georgia Cost GuideHow much does a tile roof cost in Georgia?
Tile roof (installed) in Georgia: about $15 per sq ft, the middle of the figures posted by 5 Georgia roofing companies, collected September 2026.
Tile is a heavy specialty roof. Here is the figure Georgia roofers post for it, and how the tile type, getting it onto the roof and the way it is fastened move a quote.
What a tile roof costs in Georgia
We checked 801 Georgia roofing company websites.
This is a typical price, not a quote. The sections below explain what moves the price for this job.
What the job involves
A tile roof is made of individual clay or concrete tiles laid in rows over a water-resistant underlayment. The tile sheds most of the rain, and the underlayment beneath stops the water that gets past it.
Each tile is heavy and breakable, and tiles are cut with a saw to fit around hips, valleys and edges, so installing tile is slower and more specialized than laying shingles. Because the figure above is per square foot, a total depends on how large and complicated the roof is.
Replacing old tile with new tile usually starts from a roof that was already built for the weight, which may not be true of a house that has shingles now.
What moves the price
- Clay or concrete tile
- Clay tile usually costs more than concrete tile, and they differ in weight, color range and finish. Ask which one a quote assumes.
- Underlayment under the tile
- Because the underlayment does much of the waterproofing, a quote may call for a tougher product than a shingle roof uses.
- Lifting the tile up
- Pallets of tile are heavy, and getting them onto the roof can mean a boom truck or a conveyor. Tiles can crack when stepped on, so crews plan their paths and sometimes bring extra tile to cover breakage.
- How the tile is fastened
- Tile may be nailed, screwed, clipped or set in adhesive, depending on the product and the roof. A method chosen for strong winds or a steep slope usually adds time.
- Ridge, hip and edge pieces
- Tile roofs need specially shaped pieces at the ridges, hips and edges, and those can cost more than the tile across the field. A roof with many corners uses more of them.
Getting a quote
Questions to ask each roofing company before you compare prices:
- Is this clay or concrete tile, and what exact tile and color are in this quote?
- Who checks that my roof framing can carry the weight, and is that work in the price?
- What underlayment goes under the tile, and how is the tile fastened?
- How do you get the tile onto the roof and keep it from breaking?
- Will you leave spare tile with me for later repairs?
- Who handles the permit, if one is needed, and is its fee in this price?
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Where this number comes from
We collect these prices with our own crawler, which reads the public websites of Georgia roofing companies and follows each site's robots.txt rules. It has read 801 of their websites so far. Each range is the middle half of the prices those businesses post, collected September 2026. Where that middle half is a single price, we show it as "about" that price.
A price list is what a business says it charges; a cost guide is a business's own estimate of what the job usually runs in Georgia. We never name the businesses behind a range. How we collect and check roofing prices.
| Job | Businesses that post a price |
|---|---|
| Tile roof, installed | 5 (2 price lists, 3 cost guides) |
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