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.
One of the benefits of Salmon is that there is very little traffic. The average commute to work is 14.24 minutes, which is substantially less than the national average. Not only does this mean that the drive to work is less aggravating, but noise and pollution levels are lower as a result.
Being a small city, Salmon does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
The citizens of Salmon are slightly less educated than the national average of 21.84% for the average city or town: 16.29% of adults in Salmon have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree
The per capita income in Salmon in 2022 was $32,404, 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 $129,616 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 Irish, English, German, French, and Italian.
The most common language spoken in Salmon is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and Spanish.
