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Salmon, ID
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Living in Salmon



Salmon is a very small city located in the state of Idaho. With a population of 3,216 people and two associated neighborhoods, Salmon is the 59th largest community in Idaho.

There are many members of the armed forces living in Salmon. You will notice when you visit or live here that some of the people you meet or see around town are employed by the armed services - even if they are not always in uniform.

The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Salmon has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Salmon a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.

Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 12.37 minutes getting to work every day.

Salmon is a small city, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.

The percentage of adults in Salmon who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.86% of the adults in Salmon have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Salmon in 2018 was $30,796, which is upper middle income relative to Idaho, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $123,184 for a family of four. However, Salmon contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Salmon home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Salmon residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Salmon include German, Irish, English, French, and Scottish.

The most common language spoken in Salmon is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.


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