Butler, Georgia.
Typical home $139,243 (+4.5% in a year).
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$367 (+101%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $5,982 +4%
- $133,261$139,243 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $15,452 +12%
- $123,791$139,243 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Butler$731
- Georgia$1,727
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 29 years.
Typical home values in Butler, GA rose 4.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Butler, Taylor County, Georgia
Butler is a city of 1,881 people in Taylor County. Unemployment in Taylor County was 4.0% in August 2026, and the county had 3.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Taylor County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Butler is a small city and the seat of Taylor County in central Georgia. Incomes across the county run below the Georgia norm, and homes here are priced modestly. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and most people go to a workplace rather than working from home. Winters are mild and mostly free of snow, summers are hot, and the year brings plenty of rain.
Work. Residents work mainly in schools, hospitals and social care, with manufacturing, the building trades, and transport and warehousing also employing many. In Butler itself, Ethica Health and Retirement Community, Fall Line Construction and Peed Bros are among the largest workplaces. Across Taylor County, unemployment has eased compared with a year earlier, though the county has fewer jobs than it did the year before.
Things to do. Auchumpkee Creek, a river, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to Andersonville National Historic Site, a protected area that is the best known place nearby, and to Massee Lane Gardens, a botanical garden. Sprewell Bluff Park is also a longer drive away, for a day by the water.
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- 698households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 5%work from home
What people in Taylor County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Taylor County had 1,592 jobs in 2025, 3.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 56° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 89° and lows near 68°. About 51 inches of rain a year, and little or no snow.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Talbotton weather station, 19 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Butler
- Ethica Health and Retirement CommunityNursing homes75
- Fall Line ConstructionSolar power structure construction50
- Peed BrosGrading construction sites22
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 147 people in all. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Strong windRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Butler’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively low. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Taylor County.
Butler home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Butler$139,243
- Georgia$329,115
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Butler6
Zip codes with a Butler address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Butler — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.