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The coastal city of Salem is located in Essex County and is the county seat.
Salem was settled in 1626.
The community of Salem is near sea level<1>.
Time Zone: Salem lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time.
Communities that are also named Salem can be found in:
At the time of the 2000 Census, Salem had a population of 40,407 people<3> (or 5.57% of the total population of Essex County). The population of Salem represented 0.64% of the total of Massachusetts, making it the state's 32nd most populous community.
From the Census Estimates for 2008, Salem had a population of 41,256 people. This is an increase of 2.1% since the 2000 Census.
The following table shows the recent changes in population. For the years after 2000, the population counts are estimated. More information can be found on the Census Page for Salem.
| Year | Population | Change
Since 2000 | Year-to-Year Change |
| 2008 | 41,256 | +2.1% | +0.2% since 2007 |
| 2007 | 41,174 | +1.9% | -0.44% since 2006 |
| 2006 | 41,357 | +2.35% | -0.75% since 2005 |
| 2005 | 41,670 | +3.13% | |
| --- | | | | 2000 | 40,407 | The Last Census |
The following is a sample of nearby communities:
| | Community | Direction | Distance<4> | 2008
Population | Change
Since 2000 |
| | Boston |  SW | 13 mi [20.92 km] | 609,023 | 3.37% increase |
| | Brookline | SW | 16 mi [25.75 km] | 54,896 | 3.87% decrease |
| | Cambridge | SW | 14 mi [22.53 km] | 105,596 | 4.18% increase |
| | Lawrence |  NW | 19 mi [30.58 km] | 70,014 | 2.82% decrease |
| | Malden | SW | 9 mi [14.48 km] | 55,597 | 1.32% decrease |
| | Medford | SW | 11 mi [17.7 km] | 55,573 | 0.34% decrease |
To learn more about neighboring communities, please visit the Neighborhood Page for Salem.
Website for Salem
| Official Website: | www.salemcouncil.com/ |
If you know of a local history or genealogy society for either Salem or Essex County, would you please send us the URL for their website? We would like to add their link to our Gazetteer. To contact us, please visit our Feedback Page.
Search for Local BusinessesPeople have found Google's 'Search-by-Location' to be a useful tool when planning visits to this area. We have prepared the following searches to help you find businesses, travel and vacation activities that are in (or close to) Salem. It's likely that the search results won't include all of the businesses that are in this area, but the results should give you a good foundation for further searches.
For what it's worth: In addition to helping you submit your own search, clicking 'Other...' will frequently (but not always) show you some popular searches for this area.
If you find an error or your business wasn't included in the results, please contact Google to help them resolve the issue (we simply link to 'Search-by-Location' and have no control over their results).
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The following websites contain collections of photos taken around Salem: Looking for more websites and/or information centered on Salem? Please visit the Map Page for Salem. |
Footnotes
| <1> | The elevation is an estimate for the area around Salem - it wil be higher in some places and lower in others. - Return to Citation |
| <2> | We use the term 'historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable and we would like to be accurate. If you can provide us with more specific information about Salem, please let us know so that we can make corrections. - Return to Citation |
| <3> | Population counts have been provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. For more detail, please visit our Census Page for Salem. - Return to Citation |
| <4> | Our distances are calculated as a straight-line (or point-to-point) distance between Salem and the indicated community. The distance should be treated as an estimate and not as the driving distance. - Return to Citation |
| <5> | All Quarter-dollar coin images from the United States Mint. - Return to Citation |
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