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Butte, Alaska.

A community in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, with no city government of its own. Zillow publishes no home prices for it.

Living in Butte, Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska

Butte, in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, had 3,589 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $101,042 a year and half less, against $94,031 across Matanuska-Susitna Borough; 7% of its people live below the poverty line. 83% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 17% are rented. Unemployment in Matanuska-Susitna Borough was 3.5% in August 2026, and the county had 1.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.

People 3,589 in the 2020 census; median age 42.2
Household income $101,042 the median, give or take $16,326 · Matanuska-Susitna Borough: $94,031
Unemployment 3.5% Matanuska-Susitna Borough, August 2026; 3.9% a year before
Homes 83% lived in by their owners; 17% rented
  • 1,422households
  • 34%of adults have a degree
  • 7%below the poverty line
  • 34 mintypical commute
  • 14%work from home

What residents work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care22%
  • Shops (retail)12%
  • Government10%
  • Building trades10%
  • Farming, forestry and mining10%
  • Professional and business services9%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Matanuska-Susitna Borough had 29,978 jobs in 2025, 1.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 24° and 12°; warmest in July, 70° and 54° 10° 20° 30° 40° 50° 60° 70° J 24° 12° F M A M J J 70° 54° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 24° and 12°; warmest in July, 70° and 54° 10° 20° 30° 40° 50° 60° 70° J 24° 12° F M A M J J 70° 54° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 24° and lows near 12°; warmest in July, with highs near 70° and lows near 54°. About 16 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Palmer Job Corps weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Matanuska-Susitna Borough

  1. Matanuska-Susitna Borough School DistrictSchool district1,796FTE
  2. Mat-su Regional MED CTRGeneral hospital698FTE
  3. WalmartWarehouse clubs and supercenters466
  4. State of Alaska345
  5. Matanuska Telecom AssociationTelecommunications carriers, wired301
  6. Fred Meyer StoresWarehouse clubs and supercenters288
  7. Summit School ServicesSchool and employee bus transportation260
  8. Fred Meyer StoresWarehouse clubs and supercenters229

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 70 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 6,200 people in all across the county; Butte has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) 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

  1. AvalanchesVery high
  2. EarthquakesVery high
  3. Winter weatherVery high
  4. LandslidesRelatively moderate
  5. WildfireRelatively moderate
  6. LightningRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Butte’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, very 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.