Butner, North Carolina.
Typical home $263,247 (-3.0% in a year). Durham-Chapel Hill, NC metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$766 (+124%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Down $8,054 -3%
- $271,301$263,247 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $47,700 +22%
- $215,548$263,247 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.
- Butner$1,382
- North Carolina$1,743
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 17 years.
Typical home values in Butner, NC fell 3.0% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Butner, Granville County, North Carolina
Butner is a town of 8,397 people in Granville County. Half its households earn more than $74,739 a year and half less, against $71,111 across Granville County; 15% of its people live below the poverty line. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Granville County was 3.4% in August 2026, and the county had 3.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then construction.
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 It can be wrong or out of date.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. Butner is a small town in Granville County where most homes are lived in by their owners, and the share of owners is higher than in many towns of its size. Incomes run a little above the county's, though more residents live below the poverty line than you might expect from that. The population is middle-aged, and the typical home value is well within reach compared with much of the state. Winters are cold but not severe, summers are hot, and rain and melted snow add up to a fair amount over the year.
Work. Many residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, followed by the building trades and professional and business services. The largest workplaces in Butner include Murdoch Developmental Center, Altec Industries and Ontic, an aircraft parts manufacturer. Unemployment in Granville County is lower than it was a year ago, and the county has gained jobs. Commutes are moderate, and a modest number of people work from home.
Things to do. Falls Lake and Falls Lake State Recreation Area are both a short drive away, for boating, fishing and time outdoors, and the Neuse River is close by as well. Stagville, an archaeological site, is also a short drive away. For a longer outing, the Nasher Museum of Art and the North Carolina Botanical Garden are a longer drive away.
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- 2,683households
- 27%of adults have a degree
- 15%below the poverty line
- 24 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Granville County had 21,067 jobs in 2025, 3.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 49° and lows near 28°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 68°. About 48 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Falls Lake weather station, 12 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Butner
- Murdoch Developmental Center/DHHSIntellectual and developmental disability facilities, residential1,389
- Altec IndustriesManufacturing1,071
- ADUSA Dist DC 09 ButnerGeneral warehousing and stora970
- OnticAircraft assemblies, subassemblies, and parts manufacturing293
- Falls Lake AcademySchool district127FTE
- ADUSA Trans DC 09 ButnerTrucking103
- Nugget WarehouseUpholstered furniture, household-type, custom, manufacturing88
- Food LionGrocery stores82
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 13 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 4,308 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
- HurricanesRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- TornadoesRelatively moderate
- Heat 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 Butner’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 Granville County and the Durham-Chapel Hill, NC metro.
Butner home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Butner$263,247
- North Carolina$332,159
- 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.
- Butner6
Zip codes with a Butner address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Butner — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.