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Butner town, North Carolina: commercial real estate data.
Butner town is a Census town of 8,065 people across 13.79 square miles of land, in Granville County. Median household income is $74,739, 73.8 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 1 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $840,000.
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Butner
What Butner is
- Census place typetown
- Land area13.79 sq mi
- Water area0.02 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land585
- County holding the largest share of its areaGranville 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 Butner
- Population8,065
- Median age40.3
- Population under 181,765
- Share under 1821.9 percent
- Population 65 and over1,357 plus or minus 286
- Share 65 and over16.8 percent plus or minus 3.5
- Households2,683
- Family households2,005
- Share of households that are families74.7 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Income and work in Butner
- Median household income$74,739
- Per capita income$30,670
- Civilian labor force3,650
- Employed3,450
- Unemployed200 plus or minus 110
- Unemployment rate5.5 percent plus or minus 2.9
- Adults 25 and over5,675
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher79.1 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher27.0 percent plus or minus 6.1
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree5.9 percent plus or minus 2.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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Housing in Butner
- Housing units3,152
- Occupied units2,683
- Vacant units469 plus or minus 198
- Vacancy rate14.9 percent plus or minus 6.1
- Owner occupied1,980
- Renter occupied703 plus or minus 179
- Ownership rate73.8 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$231,100
- Median gross rent, monthly$1,307
- Annual rent as a share of median income21.0 percent
- Single family units1,800
- Share single family57.1 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more592 plus or minus 227
- Share in buildings of two or more18.8 percent plus or minus 7.0
- Mobile homes753 plus or minus 211
- Median year structure built1991
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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How Butner gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute2,931
- Commuting under 15 minutes608 plus or minus 218
- Share commuting under 15 minutes20.7 percent plus or minus 6.9
- Commuting 30 minutes or more1,262 plus or minus 318
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more43.1 percent plus or minus 9.3
- Drove alone74.5 percent
- Carpooled11.4 percent plus or minus 7.6
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked0.4 percent plus or minus 0.6
- Worked from home12.2 percent plus or minus 4.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
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SBA 7(a) lending to Butner borrowers
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$840,000
- Average approval$840,000
- Median approval$840,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$840,000
- Largest approval$840,000
- Jobs supported7
- Jobs per approval7.0
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term120 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.
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SBA 504 lending to Butner borrowers
- Approvals1
- Gross approval$255,000
- Average approval$255,000
- Median approval$255,000
- Largest approval$255,000
- Jobs supported50
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Charged off0
- Median term240 months
- Distinct CDCs1
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
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Flood programme status in Butner
- Listed NFIP communities1
- Of those, participating1
- NFIP community number370660
- Currently effective map date12/06/19
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.
Granville County, not Butner
Granville County context, not Butner figures
These are Granville County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Butner measurements.
- Establishments in Granville County962
- Employment at those establishments, Granville County18,335
- Covered employment, Granville County20,301
- Average annual pay, Granville County$59,314
- Average weekly wage, Granville County$1,141
- Housing units permitted, Granville County428
- Of those, single family, Granville County308
- County product, 2024, Granville County$4,940,852,000
- County product change over the prior year, Granville County5.2 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Granville County$59,457
Every figure in this section is published for Granville County as a whole and is not a measurement of Butner. 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
Butner questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Butner, North Carolina?
8,065, in 2,683 households. Butner town covers 13.79 square miles of land, which is 585 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Butner in?
Granville 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 Butner?
$74,739. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $231,100. Median gross rent is $1,307 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Butner businesses?
1 7(a) approvals totalling $840,000, across 1 lenders, median approval $840,000, plus 1 504 approvals worth $255,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Butner, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Butner borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Butner. 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 Butner in the National Flood Insurance Program?
Yes. Butner appears in the FEMA Community Status Book as community 370660, 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 Butner figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Granville 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 Butner.
Is zoning published for Butner?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.
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