Salem, New Jersey

Salem population, 2020 to 2024

Salem added 68 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.3%. In the latest year it moved by +34. Among 194 New Jersey places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 142nd; the median place changed by +1.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Jersey has 11,231 people, so Salem is 48% of it.

Salem covers 2.34 square miles of land and 0.47 of water, for 2,294 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Salem is less dense than the typical town.

What county Salem is in

All of Salem's residents live in Salem County, which had 65,874 residents in 2024. Salem holds 8.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Salem

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Salem by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 08079. 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 Salem is

The Census internal point of Salem is at 39.568200, -75.472600. Trenton, the capital, is 59.0 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is New Castle, DE (5,715 people), 8.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Philadelphia, PA, 35.4 miles away.

Daylight in Salem

At 39.57° N, Salem gets about 14 h 58 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 22 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 36 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Salem

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is Woodstown, 9.6 miles away, with 3,757 people.