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New Jersey / Salem County

How's Salem County?

One question about Salem County, New Jersey, each answered from public data, with the method and the raw numbers one click away. More topics for this place are on the way.

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Salem County year by year

Yearly figures for every US county, latest complete year 1982 to 2025:wages and jobs from the Bureau of Labor Statistics; air quality from the EPA, where a monitor reads it.

Jobs and pay

IndicatorLatest1 yr5 yr10 yrAmong countiesTrend
Average weekly wage2025 · jobs covered by unemployment insurance, before tax, not adjusted for inflation$1,338+3.0%+11.5%+22.2%Highest quartile321 of 3,221 counties in 2025 · 13 of 21 in New Jersey
Jobs located here2025 · by where the job is, not where the worker lives22.1K jobs+2.6%+13.3%+8.0%2nd quartile872 of 3,221 counties in 2025 · 21 of 21 in New Jersey

Air quality

IndicatorLatest1 yr5 yr10 yrAmong countiesTrend
Days with good air1982 · AQI 50 or below, counties with a monitor reading at least 180 days98.9% of days–––Highest quartile12 of 411 counties in 1982 · 1 of 17 in New Jersey
Median daily AQI1982 · the middle day of the year; 0–50 is good, 51–100 moderate16 AQI–––Lowest quartile401 of 411 counties in 1982 · 17 of 17 in New Jersey

4 indicators. Change is a percent change for totals and levels, and a difference in points or units for rates and shares. "Among counties" ranks Salem County against every US county with a figure for the same year (1 is the highest value, which is not always the best). In the strip each tick is one of them, the dot is Salem County and the taller gray tick is the United States as a whole, where there is a national figure. A year is shown only once it is complete. Each indicator's page ranks every state.