Salem, Utah

Salem population, 2020 to 2024

Salem added 1,922 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +20.5%. In the latest year it moved by +494. Among 95 Utah places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 14th; the median place changed by +6.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Utah has 19,393 people, so Salem is 58% of it.

Salem covers 12.09 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 933 people per square mile of land. The median Utah place of 5,000+ has 2,284, so Salem is less dense than the typical town.

What county Salem is in

All of Salem's residents live in Utah County, which had 747,234 residents in 2024. Salem holds 1.5% 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: 84653. 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 40.055300, -111.667400. Salt Lake City, the capital, is 51.2 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Payson, UT (24,666 people), 4.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Provo, UT, 13.2 miles away.

Daylight in Salem

At 40.06° N, Salem gets about 15 h 01 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 19 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 42 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 Utah, measured between internal points. The closest is Woodland Hills, 3.0 miles away, with 1,613 people.