Editing Butner, North Carolina (section)

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|align=left|1970= 3538
|1980= 4240
|1990= 4679
|2000= 5792
|2010= 7591
|2020= 8397
|estyear=2022
|estimate=8566
|estref=<ref name="USCensusEst2019CenPopScriptOnlyDirtyFixDoNotUse">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/data/tables.2019.html|date=May 24, 2020|title=Population and Housing Unit Estimates|publisher=United States Census Bureau|accessdate=May 27, 2020}}</ref>
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|accessdate=June 4, 2015}}</ref>
}}

===2020 census===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right"
|+Butner racial composition<ref>{{Cite web|title=Explore Census Data|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?g=1600000US3709360&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|access-date=December 23, 2021|website=data.census.gov}}</ref>
!scope="col"| Race
!scope="col"| Number
!scope="col"| Percentage
|-
!scope="row"| [[White (U.S. census)|White]] (non-Hispanic)
| 3,421
| 40.74%
|-
!scope="row"| [[African American (U.S. census)|Black or African American]] (non-Hispanic)
| 2,663
| 31.71%
|-
!scope="row"| [[Native American (U.S. census)|Native American]]
| 27
| 0.32%
|-
!scope="row"| [[Asian (U.S. census)|Asian]]
| 46
| 0.55%
|-
!scope="row"| [[Pacific Islander (U.S. census)|Pacific Islander]]
| 2
| 0.02%
|-
!scope="row"| [[Race (United States census)|Other/Mixed]]
| 324
| 3.86%
|-
!scope="row"| [[Hispanic (U.S. census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. census)|Latino]]
| 1,914
| 22.79%
|}
As of the [[2020 United States census]], there were 8,397 people, 2,865 households, and 2,022 families residing in the town.

===2010 census===
As of the [[census]] of 2010, there were 7,591 people in 2,767 households. The population density was {{convert|1150.2|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. There were 2,999 housing units at an average density of {{convert|454.4|/sqmi|/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. The racial makeup of the town was 59.5% [[White (U.S. census)|White]], 30.1% [[African American (U.S. census)|African American]], 0.7% [[Native American (U.S. census)|Native American]], 0.8% [[Asian (U.S. census)|Asian]], 6.5% from [[Race (United States census)|other races]], and 2.3% from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. census)|Latino]] of any race were 14.7% of the population.

There were 2,767 households, out of which 33.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them. The average household size was 2.74. In the town, the population was spread out, with 26.0% under the age of 18, 7.6% from 18 to 24, 13.8% from 25 to 34, 23.3% from 35 to 49, 18.8% from 50 to 64, and 10.4% who were 65 years of age or older. For every 100 females, there were 97.3 males.

The median income<ref>[http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ADPTable?_bm=y&-context=adp&-qr_name=ACS_2009_5YR_G00_DP5YR3&-ds_name=ACS_2009_5YR_G00_&-tree_id=5309&-keyword=butner&-redoLog=true&-_caller=geoselect&-geo_id=16000US3709360&-format=&-_lang=en Fact Finder, United States Census Bureau] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20200210231723/http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/ADPTable?_bm=y&-context=adp&-qr_name=ACS_2009_5YR_G00_DP5YR3&-ds_name=ACS_2009_5YR_G00_&-tree_id=5309&-keyword=butner&-redoLog=true&-_caller=geoselect&-geo_id=16000US3709360&-format=&-_lang=en |date=February 10, 2020}}, Retrieved November 11, 2011</ref> for a household in the town was $45,437, and the mean income for a household was $51,466. The median and mean incomes for families were $53,186 and $55,847, respectively. The [[per capita income]] for the town was $17,654. About 4.1% of families and 13.5% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 9.2% of those under age 18 and 12.8% of those age 65 or over.