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Salem city, Iowa: commercial real estate data.
Salem city is a Census city of 349 people across 0.63 square miles of land, in Henry County. Median household income is $51,250, 82.7 percent of occupied homes are owned.
50 sourced place values · tier FULL · 6 sections · underlined figures are computed by MMCG Analytics, not published by the agency
Salem
What Salem is
- Census place typecity
- Land area0.63 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land558 plus or minus 149
- County holding the largest share of its areaHenry 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.
Salem
How many people live in Salem
- Population349 plus or minus 93
- Median age44.5 plus or minus 16.6
- Population under 1881 plus or minus 40
- Share under 1823.2 percent plus or minus 9.7
- Population 65 and over77 plus or minus 25
- Share 65 and over22.1 percent
- Households150 plus or minus 33
- Family households97 plus or minus 28
- Share of households that are families64.7 percent
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Salem
Income and work in Salem
- Median household income$51,250 plus or minus $11,355
- Per capita income$26,042
- Civilian labor force149 plus or minus 53
- Employed141 plus or minus 52
- Unemployed8 plus or minus 8
- Unemployment rate5.4 percent plus or minus 5.0
- Adults 25 and over251
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher91.6 percent
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher9.6 percent plus or minus 7.3
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree2.4 percent plus or minus 2.3
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Salem
Housing in Salem
- Housing units156 plus or minus 33
- Occupied units150 plus or minus 33
- Vacant units6 plus or minus 8
- Vacancy rate3.8 percent plus or minus 5.1
- Owner occupied124 plus or minus 28
- Renter occupied26 plus or minus 16
- Ownership rate82.7 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$85,700
- Median gross rent, monthly$922 plus or minus $289
- Annual rent as a share of median income21.6 percent plus or minus 8.3
- Single family units131 plus or minus 30
- Share single family84.0 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more12 plus or minus 13
- Share in buildings of two or more7.7 percent plus or minus 8.1
- Mobile homes13 plus or minus 9
- Median year structure built1946
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Salem
How Salem gets to work
- Workers 16 and over who commute137 plus or minus 50
- Commuting under 15 minutes24 plus or minus 17
- Share commuting under 15 minutes17.5 percent plus or minus 10.9
- Commuting 30 minutes or more55 plus or minus 26
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more40.1 percent plus or minus 12.4
- Drove alone79.0 percent plus or minus 40.6
- Carpooled12.6 percent plus or minus 11.0
- Public transport0.0 percent
- Walked4.2 percent plus or minus 6.1
- Worked from home4.2 percent plus or minus 4.7
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Henry County, not Salem
Henry County context, not Salem figures
These are Henry County figures. There is no place level equivalent published for any of them, so they are shown as the county backdrop and never as Salem measurements.
- Establishments in Henry County482
- Employment at those establishments, Henry County6,726
- Covered employment, Henry County8,137
- Average annual pay, Henry County$52,431
- Average weekly wage, Henry County$1,008
- Housing units permitted, Henry County36
- Of those, single family, Henry County28
- County product, 2024, Henry County$1,153,613,000
- County product change over the prior year, Henry County-0.4 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Henry County$50,038
Every figure in this section is published for Henry County as a whole and is not a measurement of Salem. 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.
- No SBA approvals are recorded to a borrower address in this place in either FOIA release.
- 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
Salem questions, answered from the record.
How many people live in Salem, Iowa?
349, in 150 households. Salem city covers 0.63 square miles of land, which is 558 people per square mile. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
What county is Salem in?
Henry 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 Salem?
$51,250. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $85,700. Median gross rent is $922 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Are the county figures on this page Salem figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Henry 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 Salem.
Is zoning published for Salem?
Not yet. The zoning layer is in build. Nothing on this page presents parcel level zoning.