Butler, New Jersey

Butler population, 2020 to 2024

Butler added 174 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.2%. In the latest year it moved by +17. Among 194 New Jersey places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 72nd; the median place changed by +1.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Jersey has 11,231 people, so Butler is 73% of it.

Butler covers 2.03 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 4,037 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Butler is close to the typical town.

What county Butler is in

All of Butler's residents live in Morris County, which had 523,053 residents in 2024. Butler holds 1.6% 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 borough's land: 07405. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a borough that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Butler is

The Census internal point of Butler is at 40.997800, -74.347000. Trenton, the capital, is 57.8 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Kinnelon, NJ (10,108 people), 2.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Paterson, NJ, 11.2 miles away.

Daylight in Butler

At 41.00° N, Butler gets about 15 h 08 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 13 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 54 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 New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is Riverdale, 1.7 miles away, with 4,142 people.