Salinas serves as the main business, governmental and industrial center of the region. The marine climate is ideal for the floral industry, grape vineyards, and vegetable growers. Salinas is known as the Salad Bowl of the World” for its large, vibrant agriculture industry.

It was the hometown of writer and Nobel laureate John Steinbeck (1902-1968), who set many of his stories in the Salinas Valley and Monterey. The eponymous street in Salinas that was the setting for his novel Cannery Row is a tourist attraction, along with Steinbeck’s boyhood home.

The city of Salinas is located at the mouth of the Salinas Valley roughly eight miles from the Pacific Ocean and has a climate more influenced by the ocean than the hot-summer interior.

The majority of residents live in single-unit detached homes, built between 1950 and 2000, while one third of the housing stock has three or more units per structure.

Salinas serves as the main business, governmental and industrial center of the region. The marine climate is ideal for the floral industry, grape vineyards, and vegetable growers.

Salinas is known for its vibrant and large agriculture industry and being “The Salad Bowl of the World” as the hometown of writer and Nobel Prize in Literature laureate John Steinbeck, who based several of his novels there.