Butte Valley vs Forest Ranch

A side-by-side comparison of Butte Valley and Forest Ranch: population, income, housing, and more.

Butte Valley and Forest Ranch are places in California. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Forest Ranch has the higher population (1,974 vs 870 in Butte Valley). Forest Ranch has the higher median household income ($154,212 vs $94,531 in Butte Valley). Butte Valley has the higher median home value ($492,400 vs $491,300 in Forest Ranch).

Population, income & housing

	Butte Valley	Forest Ranch
Population	870	1,974
Median age	56.3 yrs	44.5 yrs
Median household income	$94,531	$154,212
Median home value	$492,400	$491,300
Housing units	494	733
Homeownership rate	100.0%	99.0%
Bachelor's degree or higher	54.5%	32.9%
Unemployment rate	0.0%	7.5%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Butte Valley	Forest Ranch
Population	736 → 870 (+18.2%)	772 → 1,974 (+155.7%)
Median household income	$80,984 → $94,531 (+16.7%)	$174,090 → $154,212 (-11.4%)
Median home value	$511,400 → $492,400 (-3.7%)	$560,500 → $491,300 (-12.3%)

Butte Valley

Population

736870

Median household income

$80,984$94,531

Median home value

$511,400$492,400

Forest Ranch

Population

7721,974

Median household income

$174,090$154,212

Median home value

$560,500$491,300

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Butte Valley	Forest Ranch
Under 5	7.9%	6.9%
5 to 17	13.9%	19.2%
18 to 24	2.2%	3.1%
25 to 34	9.3%	5.4%
35 to 44	4.1%	19.0%
45 to 54	12.1%	17.4%
55 to 64	12.2%	11.8%
65 to 74	26.6%	14.4%
75 and over	11.7%	2.7%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Butte Valley	Forest Ranch
White (non-Hispanic)	75.2%	85.2%
Black or African American	0.0%	0.0%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.0%	0.0%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.0%
Two or more races	23.6%	3.9%
Hispanic or Latino	1.3%	10.9%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Butte Valley	Forest Ranch
No high school diploma	3.9%	20.3%
High school graduate	18.9%	19.8%
Some college or associate's	22.7%	27.1%
Bachelor's degree	29.0%	18.3%
Graduate or professional degree	25.4%	14.6%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Butte Valley	Forest Ranch
Drove alone	52.6%	80.4%
Carpooled	0.0%	18.1%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	0.0%	0.0%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	47.4%	1.6%
Other means	0.0%	0.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Butte Valley	Forest Ranch
1-unit, detached	80.8%	91.0%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	0.0%
2 to 4 units	0.0%	0.0%
5 to 19 units	0.0%	0.0%
20 or more units	0.0%	0.0%
Mobile home & other	19.2%	9.0%

Poverty & households

	Butte Valley	Forest Ranch
Poverty rate	12.4%	1.5%
Average household size	1.88	2.69
Mean commute (minutes)	26	24
Median year structure built	1987	1990