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Salmon city, Idaho: commercial real estate data.
Salmon city is a Census city of 3,203 people across 2.51 square miles of land, in Lemhi County. Median household income is $42,844, 66.5 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 14 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $5.8 m.
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Salmon
What Salmon is
- Census place typecity
- Land area2.51 sq mi
- Water area0.04 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,277
- County holding the largest share of its areaLemhi County, 100.0 percent
US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage. US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Salmon
How many people live in Salmon
- Population3,203
- Median age46.8
- Population under 18508 plus or minus 145
- Share under 1815.9 percent plus or minus 4.5
- Population 65 and over776 plus or minus 172
- Share 65 and over24.2 percent plus or minus 5.4
- Households1,451
- Family households625
- Share of households that are families43.1 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Salmon
Income and work in Salmon
- Median household income$42,844 plus or minus $9,544
- Per capita income$33,195 plus or minus $7,870
- Civilian labor force1,375
- Employed1,334
- Unemployed41 plus or minus 49
- Unemployment rate3.0 percent plus or minus 3.5
- Adults 25 and over2,333
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher89.2 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher19.3 percent plus or minus 5.4
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree6.7 percent plus or minus 3.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Salmon
Housing in Salmon
- Housing units1,728
- Occupied units1,451
- Vacant units277 plus or minus 108
- Vacancy rate16.0 percent plus or minus 6.0
- Owner occupied965
- Renter occupied486 plus or minus 146
- Ownership rate66.5 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$235,500
- Median gross rent, monthly$590 plus or minus $281
- Annual rent as a share of median income16.5 percent plus or minus 8.7
- Single family units1,196
- Share single family69.2 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more399 plus or minus 157
- Share in buildings of two or more23.1 percent plus or minus 8.7
- Mobile homes100 plus or minus 69
- Median year structure built1976
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Salmon
How Salmon gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute1,204
- Commuting under 15 minutes906 plus or minus 259
- Share commuting under 15 minutes75.2 percent plus or minus 18.8
- Commuting 30 minutes or more153 plus or minus 113
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more12.7 percent plus or minus 9.2
- Drove alone75.4 percent
- Carpooled11.7 percent plus or minus 6.9
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked8.3 percent plus or minus 4.2
- Worked from home4.1 percent plus or minus 4.0
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Salmon
SBA 7(a) lending to Salmon borrowers
- Approvals14
- Gross approval$5,791,300
- Average approval$413,664
- Median approval$146,500
- Ninetieth percentile approval$921,000
- Largest approval$1,870,600
- Jobs supported79
- Jobs per approval5.6
- Loans with a final outcome3
- Paid in full3
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more42.9 percent
- Share to franchises14.3 percent
- Distinct lenders8
- Distinct industries by NAICS13
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 3 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a rate over that few outcomes would move several points on one loan.
US Small Business Administration, 7(a) FOIA release, FY2020 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Salmon
SBA 504 lending to Salmon borrowers
- Approvals7
- Gross approval$4,542,000
- Average approval$648,857
- Median approval$493,000
- Largest approval$1,192,000
- Jobs supported38
- Loans with a final outcome1
- Charged off0
- Median term240 months
- Distinct CDCs3
US Small Business Administration, 504 FOIA release, FY2010 to FY2026 year to date, as of 2026-06-30.
Lemhi County, not Salmon
Lemhi County context, not Salmon figures
These are Lemhi County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Salmon measurements.
- Establishments in Lemhi County307
- Employment at those establishments, Lemhi County2,090
- Covered employment, Lemhi County2,720
- Average annual pay, Lemhi County$49,342
- Average weekly wage, Lemhi County$949
- Housing units permitted, Lemhi County45
- Of those, single family, Lemhi County45
- County product, 2024, Lemhi County$546,067,000
- County product change over the prior year, Lemhi County35.2 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Lemhi County$103,132
Every figure in this section is published for Lemhi County as a whole and is not a measurement of Salmon. It is here because a county backdrop is what a credit committee reads a place against, and it is labelled so that it can never be quoted as the place's own.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, 2023. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, 2024 annual averages. US Census Bureau, Building Permits Survey, 2024 annual. US Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional, table CAGDP2, CAGDP2, through 2024. US Internal Revenue Service, Statistics of Income county migration flows, 2021 to 2022 filing years.
Coverage
What this page does not hold.
Every item below could be filled with a plausible figure. None of them is. On a page a lender may read, a number that cannot be traced is worse than an absence, so the absences are named.
- This place is not listed as a community in the FEMA Community Status Book, so no NFIP participation or CRS class is shown.
- Parcel level detail, zoning and flood zone at an address are resolved in the platform, not on this page.
SBA figures count approvals to borrowers whose address is in the place. They are not approvals for projects inside the place boundary: the tape records a borrower city and a project county, and those can differ.
Common questions
Salmon questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Salmon, Idaho?
3,203, in 1,451 households. Salmon city covers 2.51 square miles of land, which is 1,277 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Salmon in?
Lemhi County, which holds 100.0 percent of the place by area. Source: US Census Bureau, cartographic boundary file, places, 2024 vintage.
What is the median household income in Salmon?
$42,844. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $235,500. Median gross rent is $590 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Salmon businesses?
14 7(a) approvals totalling $5.8 m, across 8 lenders, median approval $146,500, plus 7 504 approvals worth $4.5 m. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Salmon, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Salmon borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Salmon. only 3 resolved loans, too few to publish a rate, and a percentage over that few outcomes would move several points on a single loan. The counts are shown instead.
Are the county figures on this page Salmon figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Lemhi County as a whole and there is no place level equivalent. They appear in one clearly marked section as context and are never presented as measurements of Salmon.
Is zoning published for Salmon?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.