What is the population of Butte County?

Butte County has 2,654 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates.

What is the median household income in Butte County?

Median household income in Butte County is $43,281 a year, 44.9% below the national figure of $78,538.

How much does it cost to rent or buy in Butte County?

Median gross rent is $525 a month and the median home value is $195,800, so rent absorbs about 14.6% of median household income.

Is Butte County affordable compared with the rest of the US?

Homes cost about 4.5× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Butte County is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 14.6% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.

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Idaho · FIPS 16023

Butte ZIP codes — Butte County, Idaho

Quick answer

Butte County is home to 2,654 residents with a median household income of $43,281 and a median home value of $195,800. 77.4% of households own their home and 21.3% of residents live below the poverty line. Looking for a Butte ZIP code? 3 ZIP code areas fall inside Butte County, Idaho, listed in full below.

Population: 2,654Butte County residents
Median household income: $43,281Past 12 months, inflation adjusted
Median home value: $195,800Owner-occupied units
Median gross rent: $525Rent plus utilities, monthly
Median age: 39.2 yrsAll residents
Homeownership rate: 77.4%Owner-occupied households

Butte County, ID in context

How this area compares with national benchmarks.

Butte County is a small town in Idaho, with 2,654 residents counted in the Census American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates. The median age here is 39.2 years against 39.1 nationally, a slightly older profile than the country as a whole. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.

Households in Butte County earn a median of $43,281 a year, 44.9% below the national figure of $78,538. 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 21.3% of residents here, well above the 12.4% national rate, which is the single clearest signal in this dataset that median income here is carried by a narrow band of households.

The typical owner-occupied home in Butte County is valued at $195,800, 35.5% below the national figure, while median gross rent runs $525 a month, 62.7% below the national figure, or roughly $6,300 across a full year. A household on the local median income would put about 14.6% 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 4.5×, against roughly 3.9× nationally, so buying is harder here than in the average US market. 77.4% of occupied homes are owner-occupied versus 65% nationally, so the market leans toward owners. Rent is reported gross — contract rent plus tenant-paid utilities — which is why it runs above the advertised price on a listing for the same unit.

Every value on this page is published directly by the Census for this area — nothing is modelled or interpolated. 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.

ZIP codes in Butte County

ZIP code tabulation areas whose land area falls mostly in Butte County.

How to read this page

What these estimates cover.

Figures are five-year rolling averages from the American Community Survey, not single-year counts, so they describe conditions across 2019-2023 ACS 5-year rather than a single date. Median home value covers owner-occupied units as valued by their owners, and median gross rent includes utilities the renter pays. Small counties carry wide margins of error; treat single-dollar differences between neighbouring counties as noise.

Source: US Census Bureau, ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates · rates as published for 2019-2023 ACS 5-year

Cities and towns in Idaho

Largest Census places in Idaho by population.

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Other counties in Idaho.

Frequently asked questions

Common questions about this area.

What is the population of Butte County?: Butte County has 2,654 residents on Census ACS 2019-2023 ACS 5-year estimates.
What is the median household income in Butte County?: Median household income in Butte County is $43,281 a year, 44.9% below the national figure of $78,538.
How much does it cost to rent or buy in Butte County?: Median gross rent is $525 a month and the median home value is $195,800, so rent absorbs about 14.6% of median household income.
Is Butte County affordable compared with the rest of the US?: Homes cost about 4.5× the local median income here versus roughly 3.9× nationally, so Butte County is less affordable to buy in than the typical US market, and rent takes 14.6% of median income against the 30% cost-burden line.
How current is this Butte County data?: All figures come from the US Census Bureau American Community Survey 2019-2023 ACS 5-year five-year estimates. At this population the ACS sample is small, so the margin of error around every dollar figure below is wide — treat the numbers as a band, not a point, and expect them to move between annual releases without the place itself changing.