Butler, Oklahoma.
. Weatherford, OK metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$627 (+118%) since Jan 2020.
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.
- Oklahoma$1,159
- United States$1,922
Living in Butler, Custer County, Oklahoma
Butler is a town of 208 people in Custer County. Half its households earn more than $69,688 a year and half less, against $59,738 across Custer County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 88% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 12% are rented. Unemployment in Custer County was 3.2% in August 2026, and the county had 1.4% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Custer County work in schools and health care, 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 It can be wrong or out of date.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 very small town in Custer County, where nearly everyone owns the home they live in. Household incomes run higher than across the county, and relatively few people live below the poverty line. Winters are cold and summers are hot, with January the chilliest month and July the warmest.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with shops, restaurants, hotels and entertainment, and farming, forestry and mining also common. Some people work from home. Across Custer County, the largest workplaces include Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Bar-S Foods Co and Weatherford Schools.
Things to do. The Washita River and Foss Reservoir are both a short drive away, and Foss State Park, a protected area, is close by as well. A longer drive leads to the Stafford Air & Space Museum. Together they give a mix of water, open country and a museum visit.
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- 6%below the poverty line
- 5%work from home
What people in Custer County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Custer County had 12,820 jobs in 2025, 1.4% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 95° and lows near 69°.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Butler 5SW Mesonet weather station, 6 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Custer County
- Southwestern Oklahoma State UniversityUniversity or college620
- Bar-S Foods CoCooked meats made from purchased carcasses511
- Weatherford SchoolsSchool district308FTE
- Clinton SchoolsSchool district305FTE
- M Wright ServicesPipeline, gas and oil, construction301
- WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters286
- Indian Health ServiceFederal government · Department of Health and Human Services145
- Weatherford Regional HospitalCritical access hospital140FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 20 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,942 people in all across the county; Butler has none of its own. Colleges come from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026) and hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023); 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
- Ice stormsVery high
- TornadoesVery high
- DroughtRelatively high
- HailRelatively high
- Strong windRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
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 high. 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 Custer County and the Weatherford, OK 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.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
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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.