Indiana · Census place 1809532

Butler, Indiana

Butler is a city in DeKalb County, Indiana with an estimated 2,669 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 166th largest of 299 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
2,669
#166 of 299 in Indiana
Change since 2020
+1.6%
+41 people
Land area
2.0 sq mi
Density
1,315 / sq mi
State median 1,645
Orange pin: Butler. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Indianapolis.

Butler population, 2020 to 2024

Butler added 41 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.6%. In the latest year it moved by +1.

2,62820202,63020212,64720222,66820232,6692024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 2,628. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Butler covers 2.03 square miles of land, for 1,315 people per square mile of land. The median Indiana place of 5,000+ has 1,645, so Butler is less dense than the typical town.

What county Butler is in

All of Butler's residents live in DeKalb County, which had 44,330 residents in 2024. Butler holds 6.0% 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 city's land: 46721. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Butler is

The Census internal point of Butler is at 41.427100, -84.872300. Indianapolis, the capital, is 132.9 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Auburn, IN (13,989 people), 10.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Fort Wayne, IN, 27.3 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
41.427100, -84.872300
DMS
41°25'37.56"N 84°52'20.28"W
UTM
16N 677787.9E 4588355.7N
Geohash
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Plus code
86HQC4GH+R3

Daylight in Butler

At 41.43° N, Butler gets about 15 h 11 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 11 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 00 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 Indiana, measured between internal points. The closest is Hamilton, 8.2 miles away, with 1,555 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Butler, IN?

2,669 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 41 (1.6%) from 2,628 in July 2020.

What county is Butler in?

DeKalb 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: 46721.

How far is Butler from Indianapolis?

132.9 miles (213.9 km) in a straight line, heading SSW from Butler.

What is the nearest larger city to Butler?

Auburn, IN, with 13,989 residents, 10.4 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.