Salem County

administration
Salem County Courthouse, listed on the NRHP since 1975
US state :	New Jersey
Administrative headquarters :	Salem
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse 92 Market Street Salem, NJ 08079-1913
Foundation :	1694
Made up from:	West Jersey
Area code :	001 856
Demographics
Residents :	66,083 (2010)
Population density :	75.5 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	965 km²
Water surface :	90 km²
map

Website : www.salemcountynj.gov

The Salem County is a county in the US state of New Jersey . At the 2010 census , the county had 66,083 people and a population density of 75.5 people per square kilometer. The county seat is Salem .

The Salem County is part of the Delaware Valley called metropolitan area around the city of Philadelphia .

geography

The county is located in southwest New Jersey at the confluence of the Delaware River and Delaware Bay across from the city of Wilmington in Delaware . Salem County covers an area of 965 square kilometers, 90 square kilometers of which is water. It borders on the following neighboring counties:

		Gloucester County
New Castle County (Delaware)
Kent County (Delaware) ¹		Cumberland County

^{1 - maritime border in Delaware Bay}

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1790	10,437	-
1800	11,371	8.9%
1810	12,761	12.2%
1820	14,022	9.9%
1830	14,155	0.9%
1840	16,024	13.2%
1850	19,467	21.5%
1860	22,458	15.4%
1870	23,940	6.6%
1880	24,579	2.7%
1890	25.151	2.3%
1900	25,530	1.5%
1910	26,999	5.8%
1920	36,572	35.5%
1930	36,834	0.7%
1940	42,274	14.8%
1950	49.508	17.1%
1960	58,711	18.6%
1970	60,346	2.8%
1980	64,676	7.2%
1990	65,294	1 %
2000	64,285	-1.5%
2010	66,083	2.8%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 2010

Abel and Mary Nicholson House (1936)

history

Salem County was founded in 1694 as one of two original counties in what was then West Jersey . It was named after the Hebrew word for peace.

One place in the county has the status of a National Historic Landmark , the Abel and Mary Nicholson House . A total of 24 buildings and sites in the county are registered in the National Register of Historic Places (as of February 16, 2018).

Demographic data

According to the 2010 census , Salem County had 66,083 people in 25,194 households. The population density was 75.5 inhabitants per square kilometer.

The racial the population was composed of 79.8 percent white, 14.1 percent African American, 0.4 percent Native American, 0.8 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 2.2 percent were descended from two or more races. Regardless of ethnicity, 6.8 percent of the population was Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Statistically, 2.57 people lived in each of the 25,194 households.

23.5 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 61.5 percent were between 18 and 64 and 15.0 percent were 65 years or older. 51.3 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 52,958 USD . The per capita income was $ 27,391. 10.2 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.