Butner, North Carolina

Butner population, 2020 to 2024

Butner added 167 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.1%. In the latest year it moved by +17. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 110th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Butner is 56% of it.

Butner covers 13.79 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 590 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Butner is less dense than the typical town.

What county Butner is in

All of Butner's residents live in Granville County, which had 61,544 residents in 2024. Butner holds 13.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Butner

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Butner by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 27509, 27522. 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 Butner is

The Census internal point of Butner is at 36.134300, -78.740700. Raleigh, the capital, is 25.1 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Durham, NC (301,870 people), 13.9 miles away.

Daylight in Butner

At 36.13° N, Butner gets about 14 h 37 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 42 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 55 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Butner

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Creedmoor, 3.6 miles away, with 5,049 people.