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Lake Butler city, Florida: commercial real estate data.
Lake Butler city is a Census city of 1,601 people across 2.36 square miles of land, in Union County. Median household income is $49,922, 42.1 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 5 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $1.5 m.
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Lake Butler
What Lake Butler is
- Census place typecity
- Land area2.36 sq mi
- Water area0.14 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land679
- County holding the largest share of its areaUnion County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How many people live in Lake Butler
- Population1,601
- Median age35.1
- Population under 18537 plus or minus 138
- Share under 1833.5 percent
- Population 65 and over346 plus or minus 97
- Share 65 and over21.6 percent
- Households649 plus or minus 132
- Family households398 plus or minus 89
- Share of households that are families61.3 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Income and work in Lake Butler
- Median household income$49,922 plus or minus $12,709
- Per capita income$21,864
- Civilian labor force530 plus or minus 143
- Employed465 plus or minus 130
- Unemployed65 plus or minus 50
- Unemployment rate12.3 percent plus or minus 8.8
- Adults 25 and over994
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher82.6 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher13.3 percent plus or minus 6.4
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree10.3 percent plus or minus 6.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Lake Butler
- Housing units695
- Occupied units649 plus or minus 132
- Vacant units46 plus or minus 44
- Vacancy rate6.6 percent plus or minus 6.2
- Owner occupied273 plus or minus 94
- Renter occupied376 plus or minus 114
- Ownership rate42.1 percent plus or minus 11.7
- Median owner-occupied home value$167,800
- Median gross rent, monthly$774
- Annual rent as a share of median income18.6 percent plus or minus 5.3
- Single family units345 plus or minus 91
- Share single family49.6 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more182 plus or minus 86
- Share in buildings of two or more26.2 percent plus or minus 11.3
- Mobile homes165 plus or minus 90
- Median year structure built1973
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Lake Butler gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute451 plus or minus 127
- Commuting under 15 minutes140 plus or minus 70
- Share commuting under 15 minutes31.0 percent plus or minus 12.9
- Commuting 30 minutes or more218 plus or minus 78
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more48.3 percent plus or minus 10.7
- Drove alone82.9 percent
- Carpooled10.5 percent plus or minus 7.2
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked1.7 percent plus or minus 2.7
- Worked from home4.9 percent plus or minus 6.2
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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SBA 7(a) lending to Lake Butler borrowers
- Approvals5
- Gross approval$1,467,800
- Average approval$293,560
- Median approval$100,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$950,000
- Largest approval$950,000
- Jobs supported17
- Jobs per approval3.4
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more20.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders4
- Distinct industries by NAICS5
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 0 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Lake Butler
Flood programme status in Lake Butler
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number120595
- Currently effective map date11/02/18
This community carries no Community Rating System class, so no CRS premium discount applies to it.
FEMA, National Flood Insurance Program Community Status Book, Community Status Book, as retrieved.
Union County, not Lake Butler
Union County context, not Lake Butler figures
These are Union County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Lake Butler measurements.
- Establishments in Union County148
- Employment at those establishments, Union County1,586
- Covered employment, Union County3,543
- Average annual pay, Union County$52,907
- Average weekly wage, Union County$1,017
- Housing units permitted, Union County45
- Of those, single family, Union County45
- County product, 2024, Union County$532,688,000
- County product change over the prior year, Union County4.3 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Union County$39,706
Every figure in this section is published for Union County as a whole and is not a measurement of Lake Butler. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Lake Butler questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Lake Butler, Florida?
1,601, in 649 households. Lake Butler city covers 2.36 square miles of land, which is 679 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Lake Butler in?
Union County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Lake Butler?
$49,922. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $167,800. Median gross rent is $774 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Lake Butler businesses?
5 7(a) approvals totalling $1.5 m, across 4 lenders, median approval $100,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Lake Butler, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Lake Butler borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Lake Butler. only 0 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Is Lake Butler in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Lake Butler appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 120595, with no Community Rating System class, so no CRS discount applies. Whether a specific parcel sits in a mapped special flood hazard area is an address level question the platform answers.
Are the county figures on this page Lake Butler figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Union County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Lake Butler.
Is zoning published for Lake Butler?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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