Salem, Oregon

Salem population, 2020 to 2024

Salem added 4,429 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.5%. In the latest year it moved by +887. Among 80 Oregon places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 30th; the median place changed by +0.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in Oregon has 14,915 people, so Salem is 12.1 times that size.

Salem covers 48.94 square miles of land and 0.55 of water, for 3,686 people per square mile of land. The median Oregon place of 5,000+ has 3,097, so Salem is denser than the typical town.

The 2 counties Salem spans

Salem crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 180,406 residents as follows; Marion County holds 83.1% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Salem

6 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Salem by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 97301, 97302, 97304, 97306, 97310, 97317. 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 44.923900, -123.023000. That is next to the Salem capitol point. The nearest larger place is Portland, OR (635,749 people), 46.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Hillsboro, OR, 41.9 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 53 m (174 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Salem

At 44.92° N, Salem gets about 15 h 37 min of daylight around the June solstice and 8 h 47 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 50 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Salem daylight page.

Places near Salem

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Oregon, measured between internal points. The closest is Keizer, 5.5 miles away, with 39,152 people.