Butler, New Jersey.
Typical home $557,778 (+4.6% in a year). New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,623 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $24,718 +5%
- $533,060$557,778 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $149,456 +37%
- $408,323$557,778 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$2,928
- New Jersey$3,019
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 11 years.
Typical home values in Butler, NJ rose 4.6% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Butler, Morris County, New Jersey
Butler is a borough of 8,047 people in Morris County. Half its households earn more than $111,557 a year and half less, against $137,326 across Morris County; 9% of its people live below the poverty line. 69% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 31% are rented. Unemployment in Morris County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 0.9% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then professional services.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 borough in Morris County, home to a modest number of people. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and incomes run below the county's, though a good share of adults hold a four-year degree. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, summers turn warm in July, and the year brings a fair amount of rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with professional and business services, retail and manufacturing also employing many. In Butler itself, the Butler Public School District, Lowe's and RS Microwave Co are among the larger workplaces. Commutes tend to be fairly long, and a good number of people work from home.
Things to do. The big attractions are all a longer drive from Butler. The Statue of Liberty, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Central Park are the best known of them. MetLife Stadium is also a longer drive away, for those who want to see a game or a concert.
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- 3,490households
- 43%of adults have a degree
- 9%below the poverty line
- 30 mintypical commute
- 15%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Morris County had 301,376 jobs in 2025, 0.9% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 38° and lows near 20°; warmest in July, with highs near 84° and lows near 64°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Wanaque Raymond Dam weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Butler
- Kinnelon School DistrictSchool district310FTE
- Butler Public School DistrictSchool district239FTE
- Lowe's Companies, INCHomecenter144
- Park Wood Logistics CompanyDelivery service125
- Student Transportation of America48541083
- RS Microwave CoMicrowave components manufacturing50
- Precision FormsPrecision turned product manufacturing45
- Wawa SiteConvenience store43
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 10 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 609 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
- Winter weatherrelatively high in parts of ButlerRelatively moderate
- Inland floodingrelatively high in parts of ButlerRelatively moderate
- Strong windRelatively moderate
- Cold wavesRelatively 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 Morris County and the New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA 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$557,778
- New Jersey$575,123
- United States$366,157
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 5 Butler listings — the market is roughly in balance.
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
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Butler19.58%
- United States26.90%
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Butler30
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Butler11
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.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.