New SalemPA
364 people live in this town, settled in 1818.
Is New Salem a good place to live?
New Salem’s typical journey to work is 11 minutes, against 26 minutes in Pennsylvania’s towns and 25 minutes across U.S. towns. Of the 1,036 Pennsylvania towns we compare, none has a higher age of the median resident than New Salem. New Salem has fewer than 1,000 residents, too few for fair grades; the figures below are still real.
What makes New Salem stand out
Where New Salem beats most towns.
364 people, and everyone knows the way
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The data
Ordered by what stands out in New Salem.
A larger share of households in New Salem live in a home they own than in the typical Pennsylvania or U.S. town
The typical New Salem home is worth about $88,000, down 4.9% in a year, 69% below the Pennsylvania typical home.
Typical home value
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
New Salem has 2.9 jobs for every working resident, and 584 people commute in
The median commute is under 15 miles. The share of working residents in New Salem who work locally: 1.5%. Jobs in the town fell by 46 from 2013 to 2023, to 587. The top destinations are Uniontown (12%), North Union Township (9%) and South Union Township (9%).
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
Expect four seasons and pleasant summers in New Salem
Expect July afternoons of 84° and January nights of 22°, with about 28 inches of snow a winter.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
How healthy New Salem is
New Salem: 81% of adults had a checkup this year. 18% of New Salem adults smoke cigarettes.
| New Salem | Pennsylvania towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Smoke cigarettes (CDC PLACES) | 18% | 17% | 14% |
| Depression (CDC PLACES) | 25% | 24% | 23% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 81% | 79% | 79% |
| Frequent physical distress (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 14% | 14% |
| What stands out | New Salem | PA |
|---|---|---|
| More older adults who have lost all their teeth | 20.6% | 14.5% |
| More adults with COPD | 9.2% | 7.7% |
| More smokers | 18.4% | 15.8% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
Natural hazards: moderate risk in New Salem, mostly inland flooding
Expected storm and flood damage is lower than in 57% of U.S. communities. FEMA puts 86% of New Salem’s expected hazard losses down to inland flooding, and 6% to tornadoes.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
Everything we know about New Salem
Fallingwater and 63 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around New Salem. Close and well known come first.
Big draw19 mi MuseumFallingwater
Big draw37 mi Stadium & arenaAcrisure Stadium
32 mi Theme parkKennywood
37 mi LandmarkFort Duquesne
37 mi Stadium & arenaPNC Park
10 mi National BattlefieldFort Necessity National Battlefield226K visitors a yearPhoto credits
Fallingwater: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain · Acrisure Stadium: Fo2grfr, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Kennywood: Ski2007 of English Wikipedia, Public domain · Fort Duquesne: Sébastien Paquin, CC BY-SA 3.0 · PNC Park: alpineinc, CC BY 2.0 · Fort Necessity National Battlefield: Wilson44691, CC0
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Moving to New Salem: who provides what
New Salem is unincorporated, so Fayette County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Nov 18, 2024.
Every workday, about 584 people come to New Salem for work
Where New Salem’s working residents go each day. Line width shows the share.
Census LEHD 2023
Colleges nearby
2 within 15 miles of the center of New Salem
About 0 of every 100 New Salem residents are enrolled in college, against 6 across Pennsylvania.
Questions about New Salem
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is New Salem, PA a good place to live?
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