Roofing Contractor in Passaic, NJ

Passaic’s Housing, by the Numbers

Passaic packs about 70,500 people into 3.24 square miles. At roughly 22,500 residents per square mile, it ranks as the fifth most densely populated U.S. municipality among those with more than 50,000 people. That density shapes the roofs we work on. According to the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (2020–2024), the city has 21,693 homes, and:

• 58.4% were built in 1939 or earlier, and three in four (75.4%) before 1960.
• Only 15.5% are single-family detached houses. Another 23.6% are in two-unit buildings, 12.4% in three- and four-unit buildings, and 44.8% in buildings of five or more units.
• 76.2% of occupied homes are rented, so many of our Passaic customers are owners and managers of buildings with tenants, not just families fixing their own house.

In practice that means a lot of flat and low-slope roofs on walk-ups and mixed-use buildings along Main Avenue, Broadway and Market Street, steep, complex roofs and turrets on the Queen Anne and Tudor houses of the Passaic Park section, and tight two- and three-family houses in the older wards where the roof is the only part of the building you cannot see from the sidewalk.

What We Do in Passaic

Each service has its own Passaic page with local detail:

• Roof repair in Passaic: leaks at parapets, flat-roof seams, chimney and skylight flashing, and storm damage, with photos for your insurer.
• Roof replacement in Passaic: full tear-offs on shingled houses and membrane systems on flat roofs, including the permit and dumpster steps the city requires.
• Siding installation and repair in Passaic: vinyl, fiber cement, engineered wood and aluminum, plus soffit and fascia on older frame houses.
• Gutter installation and repair in Passaic: seamless aluminum, guards and downspouts that keep water off the foundation and out of the sanitary sewer.

We also handle flat roof repair and replacement, skylights, attic ventilation, chimney repair and inspections, and our phone is answered 24/7 at (201) 875-1122 for emergencies.

Permits and City Offices in Passaic

New Jersey’s construction code (N.J.A.C. 5:23-2.7) lets owners of detached one- and two-family houses re-roof without a permit, as ordinary maintenance. In Passaic that exemption covers a minority of homes. Re-roofing a building with three or more units, an attached house, or a mixed-use building is permit work, and so is replacing roof sheathing or rafters on any building. Siding on one- and two-family houses and gutters on any building are ordinary maintenance.

Passaic Neighborhoods We Serve

We work across the whole city, including:

• Passaic Park, known for its large park and its Queen Anne and Tudor homes, styles built with steep, intersecting rooflines.
• The Hill Section, where Passaic’s mill owners and businesspeople built large homes from the mid-1870s into the early 1900s.
• The Eastside, or Dundee section, near the Dundee Canal and the old mill district, one of the first parts of the city to fill up once water power drew the factories.
• The downtown corridors on Main Avenue, Broadway and Market Street, where mixed-use buildings have flat roofs behind parapets.
• The First, Second, Third and Fourth Wards: the First and Fourth built up toward the end of the 1800s, the Second in the early 1900s, and the Third last.

Because Passaic shares its entire land border with Clifton, we also work steadily in the next town over; see our Clifton home page.

Working With Passaic Landlords and Building Managers

Because three out of four Passaic homes are rented, a large share of our calls here come from owners who do not live in the building, or who live on one floor and rent the others. We set up those jobs so you are not stuck relaying messages: we photograph the roof and send you the pictures with the written estimate, give you a firm start date to pass on to tenants, and tell you in advance if we will need access to a top-floor apartment, attic hatch or roof door. When a tenant reports a leak at night, call the 24/7 line yourself or give them our number, and we will report back to you with what we found and what we did to stop the water.

Questions Passaic Property Owners Ask Us

More Roofing Help in Passaic

This page sits under our Passaic County service area, and our roofing services overview covers everything we do across New Jersey. For specific jobs, go straight to roof repair in Passaic, roof replacement in Passaic, siding in Passaic or gutters in Passaic.

Nearby, we also serve Clifton, home of our office, Garfield across the river (roofing contractor in Garfield) and Wallington. If water is coming in right now, see emergency roofing in Passaic County.