The median Tacoma home was built in 1968. That's a city full of roofs in their second or third cycle — storm-tested, sun-cooked, and due. Quillus mails the 100 homes nearest your last job — with a satellite view of their own roof — within 24 hours.
No card required · a free demo card, mailed to you
Measured from the Quillus address map and U.S. Census data — the same numbers the product runs on.
Mailable homes
Across 239 Census block groupsTypical 100-home radius
Median distance to the 100th-nearest home, sampled from real addressesHomes per sq mi
Approximate — Census land areaMedian home value
Up 7.4% vs the prior ACS 5-yr estimateMedian year built
The age of the roof deck under the shinglesOwner-occupied
The reader usually owns the roofThe roof stock
With a median build year of 1968, Tacoma's typical roof deck has carried at least one full shingle cycle, often two. When one house on a 1968-era street replaces, the rest of the street is staring at the same actuarial table.
The street math
Tacoma runs dense — roughly 2,979 homes per square mile. Around a typical Tacoma job site, the 100 nearest homes sit within about 390 feet — we measured it against our address map, not a ZIP-code guess. On streets this tight, one job is visible from fifty porches, and a postcard lands while the dumpster's still out front.
The customer
The median Tacoma home is worth $511,300, up a steady 7.4% across the last two ACS five-year estimates — owners here are invested, not flipping. 55% owner-occupancy means a healthy mix — homeowners who decide on the spot, plus landlords who own several roofs at once.
See the full walkthrough on the neighborhood marketing for roofers page — or try it with your last job's address.
Enter the job-site address. Quillus pulls the 100 physically closest Tacoma homes from its address map — the actual street, not the whole ZIP.
Each neighbor gets a postcard with your finished job on the front and a satellite view of their own roof on the back — in mailboxes while your sign is still in the yard.
Every card carries its own QR code tied to one address. See which neighbors looked, when, and follow up on the warm ones.
249,038 mailable residential addresses carry a Tacoma mailing address in the Quillus map (239 Census block groups). You don't mail all of them — Quillus finds the 100 homes physically closest to a job you just finished and mails only those, so every card lands on a street that watched your crew work.
Close. We sampled real Tacoma addresses against our map: the 100 nearest homes around a typical job site sit within about 390 feet (120 meters). That's the same street and the next one over — not a ZIP-code blast across town. That distance is the campaign's proximity radius — the working unit of proximity mail marketing.
Yes. The median Tacoma home was built in 1968, which puts the typical roof in its second or third shingle cycle — prime replacement territory.
The median Tacoma home is valued at $511,300; up 7.4% between the two most recent ACS five-year estimates; 55% of occupied homes are owner-occupied; median household income is $90,000. In plain terms: real equity in the house, and the decision-maker usually lives under the roof you would be replacing.
Inside 24 hours. Finish the tear-off, snap the photo, pick the 100 nearest homes on the map, and the cards are printed and in the mail stream the same day — in Tacoma mailboxes while your sign is still in the yard.
Two places: the Quillus address map (155M+ geo-located U.S. addresses — the Tacoma home count and street-distance figures are measured from it directly) and the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024 vintage) for home values, build years, and occupancy. Figures are city-level aggregates, refreshed when new ACS data ships.
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