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Butler city, Indiana: commercial real estate data.
Butler city is a Census city of 2,660 people across 2.03 square miles of land, in DeKalb County. Median household income is $54,688, 74.4 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $90,000.
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Butler
What Butler is
- Census place typecity
- Land area2.03 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,310
- County holding the largest share of its areaDeKalb 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.
Butler
How many people live in Butler
- Population2,660
- Median age39.0
- Population under 18666 plus or minus 160
- Share under 1825.0 percent plus or minus 5.1
- Population 65 and over413 plus or minus 122
- Share 65 and over15.5 percent plus or minus 4.1
- Households988
- Family households616
- Share of households that are families62.3 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Butler
Income and work in Butler
- Median household income$54,688 plus or minus $14,815
- Per capita income$27,475
- Civilian labor force1,233
- Employed1,219
- Unemployed14 plus or minus 21
- Unemployment rate1.1 percent plus or minus 1.7
- Adults 25 and over1,819
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher84.3 percent plus or minus 17.4
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher10.4 percent plus or minus 3.6
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree2.2 percent plus or minus 1.6
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Butler
Housing in Butler
- Housing units1,123
- Occupied units988
- Vacant units135 plus or minus 55
- Vacancy rate12.0 percent plus or minus 4.6
- Owner occupied735
- Renter occupied253 plus or minus 85
- Ownership rate74.4 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$107,700
- Median gross rent, monthly$785
- Annual rent as a share of median income17.2 percent plus or minus 4.9
- Single family units898
- Share single family80.0 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more190 plus or minus 91
- Share in buildings of two or more16.9 percent plus or minus 7.7
- Mobile homes35 plus or minus 28
- Median year structure built1958
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Butler
How Butler gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute1,167
- Commuting under 15 minutes513 plus or minus 132
- Share commuting under 15 minutes44.0 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more348 plus or minus 101
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more29.8 percent plus or minus 6.9
- Drove alone85.3 percent plus or minus 20.9
- Carpooled8.3 percent plus or minus 5.5
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked2.1 percent plus or minus 2.3
- Worked from home3.9 percent plus or minus 3.5
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Butler
SBA loans in Butler (7(a))
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$90,000
- Average approval$90,000
- Median approval$90,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$90,000
- Largest approval$90,000
- Jobs supported3
- Jobs per approval3.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term73 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders1
- Distinct industries by NAICS1
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.
DeKalb County, not Butler
DeKalb County context, not Butler figures
These are DeKalb County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Butler measurements.
- Establishments in DeKalb County1,034
- Employment at those establishments, DeKalb County21,088
- Covered employment, DeKalb County22,201
- Average annual pay, DeKalb County$62,916
- Average weekly wage, DeKalb County$1,210
- Housing units permitted, DeKalb County116
- Of those, single family, DeKalb County116
- County product, 2024, DeKalb County$3,447,196,000
- County product change over the prior year, DeKalb County-0.5 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, DeKalb County$54,731
Every figure in this section is published for DeKalb County as a whole and is not a measurement of 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.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- 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
Butler questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Butler, Indiana?
2,660, in 988 households. Butler city covers 2.03 square miles of land, which is 1,310 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Butler in?
DeKalb 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 Butler?
$54,688. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $107,700. Median gross rent is $785 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Butler businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $90,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $90,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Butler, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Butler borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for 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.
Are the county figures on this page Butler figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for DeKalb 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 Butler.
Is zoning published for Butler?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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