Alabama · Census place 0111032

Butler, Alabama

Butler is a town in Choctaw County, Alabama with an estimated 1,726 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 209th largest of 257 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
1,726
#209 of 257 in Alabama
Change since 2020
-7.2%
-134 people
Land area
6.8 sq mi
Density
256 / sq mi
State median 715
Orange pin: Butler. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Montgomery.

Butler population, 2020 to 2024

Butler lost 134 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -7.2%. In the latest year it moved by -41.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,868. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Butler covers 6.75 square miles of land, for 256 people per square mile of land. The median Alabama place of 5,000+ has 715, so Butler is less dense than the typical town.

What county Butler is in

All of Butler's residents live in Choctaw County, which had 12,052 residents in 2024. Butler holds 14.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Butler

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Butler by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 36904. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Butler is

The Census internal point of Butler is at 32.096500, -88.210800. Montgomery, the capital, is 113.3 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Linden, AL (1,815 people), 28.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Tuscaloosa, AL, 88.0 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
32.096500, -88.210800
DMS
32°05'47.40"N 88°12'38.88"W
UTM
16N 385749.7E 3551773.6N
Geohash
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Plus code
864H3QWQ+HM

Daylight in Butler

At 32.10° N, Butler gets about 14 h 15 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 03 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 12 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Butler

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alabama, measured between internal points. The closest is Linden, 28.3 miles away, with 1,815 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Butler, AL?

1,726 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 134 (7.2%) from 1,860 in July 2020.

What county is Butler in?

Choctaw County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Butler?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 36904.

How far is Butler from Montgomery?

113.3 miles (182.4 km) in a straight line, heading E from Butler.

What is the nearest larger city to Butler?

Linden, AL, with 1,815 residents, 28.3 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.