It is a fairly quiet city because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Salmon has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Salmon has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Salmon than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Salmon may be for you.
Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 12.37 minutes getting to work every day.
Being a small city, Salmon does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The percentage of adults in Salmon who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 21.84%: 20.86% of the adults in Salmon have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Salmon in 2022 was $30,796, which is upper middle income relative to Idaho, and middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $123,184 for a family of four. However, Salmon contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Salmon home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Salmon residents report their race to be White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Salmon include German, Irish, English, French, and Scottish.
The most common language spoken in Salmon is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
