It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Salem has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Salem has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Salem than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Salem may be for you.
Being a small town, Salem does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Salem is substantially better educated than the typical community in the nation, which has 21.84% of the adults holding a bachelor's degree or graduate degree: 30.27% of adults in Salem have a college degree.
The per capita income in Salem in 2022 was $41,164, which is middle income relative to New York, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $164,656 for a family of four. However, Salem contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Salem home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Salem residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Salem include Irish, German, Polish, French, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Salem is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Greek.
