Butlertown vs Chestertown

A side-by-side comparison of Butlertown and Chestertown: population, income, housing, and more.

Butlertown and Chestertown are places in Maryland. This page compares them across population, income, housing, education, commuting, and how each has changed since 2019.

Chestertown has the higher population (5,548 vs 522 in Butlertown). Butlertown has the higher median household income ($70,875 vs $47,047 in Chestertown). Chestertown has the higher median home value ($333,900 vs $215,400 in Butlertown).

Population, income & housing

	Butlertown	Chestertown
Population	522	5,548
Median age	46.8 yrs	32.3 yrs
Median household income	$70,875	$47,047
Median home value	$215,400	$333,900
Median gross rent	—	$1,090
Housing units	249	2,383
Homeownership rate	95.6%	48.1%
Bachelor's degree or higher	20.5%	45.1%
Unemployment rate	2.7%	4.0%

Trends (ACS 5-year, 2019–2023)

	Butlertown	Chestertown
Population	302 → 522 (+72.8%)	5,088 → 5,548 (+9.0%)
Median household income	—	$47,703 → $47,047 (-1.4%)
Median home value	$118,800 → $215,400 (+81.3%)	$242,700 → $333,900 (+37.6%)
Median gross rent	—	$842 → $1,090 (+29.5%)

Butlertown

Population

302522

Median home value

$118,800$215,400

Chestertown

Population

5,0885,548

Median household income

$47,703$47,047

Median home value

$242,700$333,900

Median gross rent

$842$1,090

Age & race/ethnicity

Age distribution (share)

	Butlertown	Chestertown
Under 5	0.0%	5.7%
5 to 17	14.6%	10.4%
18 to 24	0.6%	27.3%
25 to 34	5.9%	8.3%
35 to 44	16.1%	6.8%
45 to 54	33.9%	6.8%
55 to 64	17.8%	10.3%
65 to 74	11.1%	11.1%
75 and over	0.0%	13.3%

Race & ethnicity (share)

	Butlertown	Chestertown
White (non-Hispanic)	39.3%	67.4%
Black or African American	60.7%	24.8%
American Indian & Alaska Native	0.0%	0.0%
Asian	0.0%	2.3%
Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander	0.0%	0.0%
Some other race	0.0%	0.7%
Two or more races	0.0%	1.6%
Hispanic or Latino	0.0%	3.2%

Educational attainment (age 25+)

Share of adults 25+

	Butlertown	Chestertown
No high school diploma	12.0%	10.8%
High school graduate	40.6%	23.4%
Some college or associate's	26.9%	20.7%
Bachelor's degree	16.7%	21.3%
Graduate or professional degree	3.8%	23.8%

Commute to work

How workers get to work (share)

	Butlertown	Chestertown
Drove alone	66.3%	57.1%
Carpooled	31.1%	7.1%
Public transit	0.0%	0.0%
Walked	0.0%	22.6%
Bicycle	0.0%	0.0%
Worked from home	2.6%	11.1%
Other means	0.0%	2.0%

Housing

Units in structure (share)

	Butlertown	Chestertown
1-unit, detached	95.6%	47.4%
1-unit, attached	0.0%	9.1%
2 to 4 units	0.0%	14.9%
5 to 19 units	4.4%	14.2%
20 or more units	0.0%	9.5%
Mobile home & other	0.0%	4.9%

Poverty & households

	Butlertown	Chestertown
Poverty rate	28.9%	15.6%
Average household size	2.10	1.83
Mean commute (minutes)	34	20
Median year structure built	1998	1984