Salem, Ohio

Salem population, 2020 to 2024

Salem lost 193 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.6%. In the latest year it moved by -23. Among 254 Ohio places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 201st; the median place changed by -0.4%. The median place of 5,000+ in Ohio has 13,905 people, so Salem is 84% of it.

Salem covers 6.43 square miles of land, for 1,817 people per square mile of land. The median Ohio place of 5,000+ has 2,000, so Salem is close to the typical town.

The 2 counties Salem spans

Salem crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 11,685 residents as follows; Columbiana County holds 100.0% of them. The shaded shapes are 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: 44460. 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 40.904600, -80.848900. Columbus, the capital, is 130.6 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Alliance, OH (21,523 people), 14.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Akron, OH, 37.1 miles away.

Daylight in Salem

At 40.90° N, Salem gets about 15 h 07 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 14 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 53 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 Ohio, measured between internal points. The closest is Leetonia, 4.8 miles away, with 1,785 people.