Butler, Indiana.
Typical home $207,954 (+7.2% in a year). Auburn, IN metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$647 (+145%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $14,042 +7%
- $193,913$207,954 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $59,427 +40%
- $148,528$207,954 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$1,092
- Indiana$1,350
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 10 years.
Typical home values in Butler, IN rose 7.2% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Butler, DeKalb County, Indiana
Butler is a city of 2,635 people in DeKalb County. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in DeKalb County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 2.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in manufacturing, then shops.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 in DeKalb County, in northeastern Indiana. Most homes here are lived in by their owners, and typical home values sit at a level that many households in the region can reach. Winters are cold and summers are warm, with rain and melted snow spread through the year.
Work. Residents work mostly in manufacturing, shops, schools, hospitals and social care, along with other services. Among the largest workplaces in Butler are the DeKalb County Eastern Community School District, Janus, which makes metal doors, and Laurel Health Care Holdings, a nursing care operator. Few adults hold a four-year degree, and most people get to work by a fairly short commute, with only a small share working from home.
Things to do. For time outdoors, Chain O'Lakes State Park and Pokagon State Park are both protected areas, and Lake James offers a lake for the water, each a longer drive away. The Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum, also a longer drive away, is the best known of the nearby places and suits anyone who likes classic cars.
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- 988households
- 10%of adults have a degree
- 19%below the poverty line
- 20 mintypical commute
- 4%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. DeKalb County had 21,585 jobs in 2025, 2.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 17°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 61°. About 35 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Hicksville weather station, 11 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Butler
- DeKalb Co Eastern Com Sch Dist SchoolsSchool district318FTE
- JanusDoors, metal, manufacturing138
- Laurel Health Care HoldingsNursing care facilities -skilled nursing facilities110
- Color MasterCustom compounding of purchased plastics resins96
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 3 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 344 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. 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
- TornadoesRelatively high
- HailRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively 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 DeKalb County and the Auburn, IN metro.
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$207,954
- Indiana$257,165
- 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.
- Butler15
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Butler5
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.