Lake Butler CDP, FL population, income and ZIP codes

Lake Butler CDP is a mid-size town in Florida, with 17,242 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates, which places it #227 of 955 ranked by population — larger than 76% of them. The median age here is 43.8 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. Places under 65,000 residents only appear in the five-year release, never the one-year file, so these values pool sixty months of responses and lag the current year by design.

Households in Lake Butler CDP earn a median of $178,750 a year, 127.6% above the national figure of $78,538 and 161% above the $68,617 median for the 775 Florida cities we cover. The median is the midpoint household, not an average, so a handful of very high earners cannot drag it upward the way they distort a mean. Poverty reaches 2% of residents here, less than half the 12.4% national rate.

The typical owner-occupied home in Lake Butler CDP is valued at $886,300, 192.1% above the national figure and 190% above the $305,300 peer median, while median gross rent runs $2,413 a month, 71.6% above the national figure, or roughly $28,956 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 16.2% of gross pay toward that rent against the federal 30% cost-burden threshold, so renting here is cheap relative to what people here earn. The home-price-to-income ratio works out to 5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 87.5% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, an owner-dominated market where rental listings are scarce and rent medians rest on a thin sample. The rent line includes utilities paid by the tenant, a definition worth remembering when comparing it against a landlord's quoted rate.

No figure on this page is estimated by us; each one comes straight from the published ACS tables for this area. Small-area estimates still carry wider margins of error than state or national figures, so check the linked ACS tables before relying on them for lending, appraisal or legal work.