Salmon’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
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 13.73 minutes getting to work every day.
Being a small city, Salmon does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Salmon who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 19.29% of the adults in Salmon have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Salmon in 2022 was $33,195, 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 $132,780 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. Important ancestries of people in Salmon include Irish, German, English, French, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Salmon is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
