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The median home value in Butner, NC is $273,640 as of 2026-07-31, down 1.42% from a year earlier.
Median Home Value
$273,640
Year-over-Year
-1.42%
Population
8,156
Butner ranks #66 of 101 North Carolina cities tracked here by median home value, and sits 11.6% below the state's city median of $309,616. It sits in Granville County, where the county-wide median is $317,221.
Median household income in Butner is $74,739, so the typical home value is about 3.7× annual household income. This is a simple price-to-income benchmark rather than a monthly payment estimate; it does not account for mortgage rates, down payments, taxes or insurance.
Household income comes from the U.S. Census Bureau's ACS 5-Year Estimates, table B19013 (how the affordability measure works).
Butner police recorded a violent crime rate of 245 per 100,000 residents in 2024 — around the middle of the range for reporting cities. Property crime runs at 1,312 per 100,000.
Reported by the city's own police department to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (what this covers).
People often call this an average home price, but the figure shown here is Zillow's typical home value (ZHVI), not a simple arithmetic average. In Butner, that value is $273,640. That's down 1.42% from a year earlier. It is about 11.6% below the typical North Carolina city tracked here.
Homes in Butner are cheaper than Granville County as a whole, where the median is $317,221 — a difference of about 13.7%.
Median household income here is $74,739, so the typical home value is about 3.7× annual household income. This ratio is a broad comparison measure, not a mortgage-payment estimate.
Butner police reported 245 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, covering a population of about 8,156. Crime rates are one input among many — they vary block to block within a city, and this figure is a citywide average.
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