: Not "ghetto" or "redneck" enough, unless this is solely about the town of Salem. The county jurisdictional areas have some mcmansions and exurban housing tracts the further you go north and away from Delaware Bay. Salem County has became a popular real estate trend for suburban commuters in the Philadelphia and New York metro areas, since it is located in New Jersey and across from the states of Delaware and Maryland down the I-95. There are some ethnic diversity such as Portuguese and Turkish, Japanese and Korean, Peruvian and Uruguayan communities in the southern/eastern half of the Philadelphia metro area, in which Salem was once a seaport during its heyday in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. Agriculture has declined in the second half of the century and without a real economy, the city of Salem dies off steadily.