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Salem city, West Virginia: commercial real estate data.
Salem city is a Census city of 1,629 people across 1.34 square miles of land, in Harrison County. Median household income is $38,529, 69.7 percent of occupied homes are owned, and the SBA record carries 3 7(a) approvals to borrowers here worth $390,000.
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Salem
What Salem is
- Census place typecity
- Land area1.34 sq mi
- Water area0 sq mi
- Population per square mile of land1,217 plus or minus 261
- County holding the largest share of its areaHarrison 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
- Population1,629 plus or minus 349
- Median age32.6
- Population under 18219 plus or minus 80
- Share under 1813.4 percent plus or minus 4.0
- Population 65 and over266 plus or minus 102
- Share 65 and over16.3 percent plus or minus 5.2
- Households578 plus or minus 136
- Family households271 plus or minus 67
- Share of households that are families46.9 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$38,529 plus or minus $14,698
- Per capita income$21,304 plus or minus $4,539
- Civilian labor force666 plus or minus 267
- Employed637 plus or minus 265
- Unemployed29 plus or minus 20
- Unemployment rate4.4 percent plus or minus 2.4
- Adults 25 and over1,036 plus or minus 307
- Adults 25 and over with a high school diploma or higher86.9 percent plus or minus 35.3
- Adults 25 and over with a bachelor degree or higher13.9 percent plus or minus 4.2
- Adults 25 and over with a graduate degree5.3 percent plus or minus 2.9
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Salem
Housing in Salem
- Housing units735
- Occupied units578 plus or minus 136
- Vacant units157 plus or minus 56
- Vacancy rate21.4 percent plus or minus 6.5
- Owner occupied403 plus or minus 121
- Renter occupied175 plus or minus 65
- Ownership rate69.7 percent
- Median owner-occupied home value$77,800 plus or minus $16,486
- Median gross rent, monthly$525
- Annual rent as a share of median income16.4 percent plus or minus 6.9
- Single family units483 plus or minus 127
- Share single family65.7 percent
- Units in buildings of two or more193 plus or minus 76
- Share in buildings of two or more26.3 percent plus or minus 9.1
- Mobile homes59 plus or minus 40
- Median year structure built1956
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 commute617 plus or minus 264
- Commuting under 15 minutes249 plus or minus 112
- Share commuting under 15 minutes40.4 percent
- Commuting 30 minutes or more169 plus or minus 57
- Share commuting 30 minutes or more27.4 percent plus or minus 14.9
- Drove alone79.4 percent plus or minus 23.4
- Carpooled5.5 percent plus or minus 3.4
- Public transport0.6 percent plus or minus 1.1
- Walked11.3 percent plus or minus 7.2
- Worked from home3.1 percent plus or minus 4.4
US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
Salem
SBA loans in Salem (7(a))
- Approvals3
- Gross approval$390,000
- Average approval$130,000
- Median approval$40,000
- Ninetieth percentile approval$335,000
- Largest approval$335,000
- Jobs supported10
- Jobs per approval3.3
- Loans with a final outcome0
- Paid in full0
- Charged off0
- Median term120 months
- Share on real estate terms of 20 years or more0.0 percent
- Share to franchises0.0 percent
- Distinct lenders3
- Distinct industries by NAICS3
A charge-off rate is not published here. only 0 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.
Harrison County, not Salem
Harrison County context, not Salem figures
These are Harrison 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 Harrison County1,781
- Employment at those establishments, Harrison County29,386
- Covered employment, Harrison County37,098
- Average annual pay, Harrison County$64,286
- Average weekly wage, Harrison County$1,236
- Housing units permitted, Harrison County83
- Of those, single family, Harrison County74
- County product, 2024, Harrison County$6,047,637,000
- County product change over the prior year, Harrison County1.7 percent
- Average income of an arriving household, Harrison County$57,971
Every figure in this section is published for Harrison 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.
- 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, West Virginia?
1,629, in 578 households. Salem city covers 1.34 square miles of land, which is 1,217 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?
Harrison 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?
$38,529. The median owner-occupied home is valued at $77,800. Median gross rent is $525 per month. Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, place level, 2020-2024 5-year.
How much SBA lending goes to Salem businesses?
3 7(a) approvals totalling $390,000, across 3 lenders, median approval $40,000. These count approvals to borrowers whose address is in Salem, not projects sited inside the place boundary, and they are approvals recorded in the release rather than loans disbursed.
Do SBA loans to Salem borrowers get paid back?
No rate is published for Salem. only 0 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 Salem figures?
No, and they are labelled so. County Business Patterns, QCEW, the Building Permits Survey, BEA product and IRS migration are published for Harrison 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.