Oregon · United States
Salem population
175,535people · latest figure
Salem has a population of 175,535, making it the 150th largest place we list in United States. It is in Oregon.
Salem holds under a tenth of one per cent of United States's 349,035,494 people. New York City, the largest place we list there, is 50 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 146,922, a rise of 19%.
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. The two sources may draw the settlement's boundary differently, so treat the change as indicative rather than exact. Why figures differ.
Salem is in Oregon, which has 257 recorded places.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Eugene | Oregon | 176,654 |
| Tempe | Arizona | 175,826 |
| Oceanside | California | 175,691 |
| Garden Grove | California | 175,393 |
| Rancho Cucamonga | California | 175,236 |
| Cape Coral | Florida | 175,229 |
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Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.