Butler is a tiny town located in the state of Tennessee. With a population of 297 people and three associated neighborhoods, Butler is the 364th largest community in Tennessee.Butler is a blue-collar town, with 56.86% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Butler is a town of construction workers and builders, sales and office workers, and professionals. There are especially a lot of people living in Butler who work in office and administrative support (21.57%), healthcare (21.57%), and sales jobs (0.00%). Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 43.14% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. The overall crime rate in Butler is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime. It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Butler has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Butler has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Butler than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Butler may be for you. Residents of the town have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 18.88 minutes getting to work every day. Butler is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.In Butler, just 7.19% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%. The per capita income in Butler in 2022 was $27,874, which is middle income relative to Tennessee, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $111,496 for a family of four. However, Butler contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. The people who call Butler home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Butler residents report their race to be White. Important ancestries of people in Butler include British, English, Yugoslavian, Other West Indian, and West Indian. The most common language spoken in Butler is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Polish.
