Salmon, Idaho

Salmon population, 2020 to 2024

Salmon added 161 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.2%. In the latest year it moved by -21.

Salmon covers 2.51 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 1,298 people per square mile of land. The median Idaho place of 5,000+ has 2,389, so Salmon is less dense than the typical town.

What county Salmon is in

All of Salmon's residents live in Lemhi County, which had 8,397 residents in 2024. Salmon holds 38.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Salmon

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Salmon by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 83467. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Salmon is

The Census internal point of Salmon is at 45.174400, -113.894800. Boise, the capital, is 157.1 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Dillon, MT (4,242 people), 61.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Boise City, ID, 158.5 miles away.

Daylight in Salmon

At 45.17° N, Salmon gets about 15 h 39 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 45 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 54 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Salmon

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Idaho, measured between internal points. The closest is Sun Valley, 105.2 miles away, with 1,771 people.