Butler, Pennsylvania

Butler population, 2020 to 2024

Butler lost 476 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.5%. In the latest year it moved by -107. Among 193 Pennsylvania places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 174th; the median place changed by +0.2%. The median place of 5,000+ in Pennsylvania has 8,364 people, so Butler is 1.6 times that size.

Butler covers 2.72 square miles of land, for 4,783 people per square mile of land. The median Pennsylvania place of 5,000+ has 3,911, so Butler is denser than the typical town.

What county Butler is in

All of Butler's residents live in Butler County, which had 199,341 residents in 2024. Butler holds 6.5% 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: 16001. 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 40.861600, -79.896200. Harrisburg, the capital, is 163.4 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Franklin Park, PA (15,079 people), 21.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Pittsburgh, PA, 29.5 miles away.

Daylight in Butler

At 40.86° N, Butler gets about 15 h 07 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 14 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 52 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 Pennsylvania, measured between internal points. The closest is Prospect, 8.4 miles away, with 1,082 people.