Best PlacesSaline, MI Best Neighborhoods
2026–2027 edition · Data updated July 2026
Every neighborhood in and around Saline, scored on 40 measures of daily life and ranked to fit what matters to you. Local pay runs high here, and housing takes the biggest bite out of it. To work out which city fits you best, start with the best places to live tool.
Saline ranks 2,082nd of 50,333 U.S. towns on the BestNeighborhood index. It scores highest on population health by a wide margin, and car insurance costs are the weak spot.
The best neighborhoods in Saline
BestNeighborhood is the only ranking that scores 40 measures of daily life neighborhood by neighborhood and lets you re-weight every one of them yourself.
Saline's strengths and weaknesses
Where Saline ranks high
- Health outlookBetter than 96% of towns
- Educational attainmentBetter than 96% of towns
- Voter turnoutBetter than 96% of towns
- Cost of living vs incomeBetter than 95% of towns
- Household income$132,064 median, better than 95% of towns
Where Saline ranks low
- Cheap car insuranceBetter than only 3% of towns
- Low property taxBetter than only 11% of towns
- Cheap childcare$1,094 a month, better than only 16% of towns
- State fiscal healthBetter than only 22% of towns
- Air qualityBetter than only 24% of towns
What it costs to buy a home in Saline
A household needs to earn about $117,000 a year to comfortably buy the median Saline home, at 20% down and today's 30-year rate. That is below the area's own median income of $132,064, so a typical household can afford the median home outright.
Where the monthly payment goes
Assumes a 20% down payment, a 6.6% 30-year fixed rate, and a 28% share of income going to the payment. The rate is the 2026-07-23 30-year fixed average, series MORTGAGE30US from the St. Louis Fed, which publishes Freddie Mac's weekly survey. Against the median home value, property tax uses Saline's effective rate of 1.49%, and insurance is estimated at 0.4% of home value a year.
Renting versus buying
At today's prices and rents, renting stays cheaper than buying across the first 10 years here, so the case for buying rests on staying much longer or on prices rising faster than assumed. The chart tracks the running cost of each.
Who lives in Saline
Saline runs older than the country.
Residents by age
Racial and ethnic makeup has its own map. See the race and diversity map for Saline.
Who works in Saline, and how
Work in Saline centers on health care & social and manufacturing. Unemployment is close to the national rate, and the job base is shrinking.
Largest industries
How people get to work
- Drive or carpool 74%
- Work from home 24%
- Transit, walk, or bike 3%
Life in Saline
Saline has more parkland per resident than 91% of towns. That concentrates in some parts of Saline and thins out in others, which the map shows.
What the weather is like in Saline, month by month
Saline sees roughly 92 pleasant days a year. July highs average about 85 degrees. January highs sit near 35, with lows near 17. The comfortable stretch runs May through September.
Show the monthly temperatures
| Month | Avg high | Avg | Avg low |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 35° | 26° | 17° |
| April | 61° | 47° | 34° |
| July | 85° | 72° | 57° |
| October | 65° | 52° | 40° |
Flying in and out of Saline
Detroit Metro Wayne County sits about 21 miles away. It is a large hub and boarded 16.3 million passengers in 2025, with 168 nonstop destinations.
The best schools in and around Saline
Schools across Saline average an A−, better than 82% of towns.
Top elementary schools
- Pleasant Ridge Elementary SchoolA · 70% proficient
- Harvest Elementary SchoolA · 68% proficient
- Woodland Meadows Elementary SchoolA− · 60% proficient
Top middle schools
- Saline Middle SchoolA · 59% proficient
- Scarlett Middle SchoolB · 45% proficient
- Clinton Middle SchoolC+ · 37% proficient
Top high schools
- Huron High SchoolA− · 62% proficient
- Saline High SchoolB+ · 55% proficient
- Milan High SchoolC+ · 40% proficient
Grades come from K-12 test scores, with scores projected for schools missing data. See every Saline school and its grade on SchoolGrade.
Saline measure by measure
Cards are ordered by how much each measure matters to you, so the ones you weighted highest come first. Expand to see every measure. Percentages compare Saline against the other 50,332 towns.
Who Saline suits
Remote workers
Cost of living against local pay beats 95% of towns, internet is fast and widely advertised, and 24% already work from home.
Retirees
The weather beats 62% of towns and health care access beats 92%.
Common questions about living in Saline
Is Saline a good place to live?
Using BestNeighborhood's default rankings, Saline ranks 2,082nd of 50,333 towns. It scores highest on population health, an educated workforce, and civic engagement, and lowest on car insurance costs and property taxes. How good it is for you depends on which of those you weight most, which the map lets you set.
Is Saline expensive to live in?
The median home is worth $408,830. The overall cost of living runs about 1% below the national average. Set against a $132,064 median income, cost of living beats 95% of towns.
Is Saline safe?
Yes, Saline is safer than 78% of towns. Safety varies a lot by neighborhood. Crime costs an estimated $256 per resident a year.
What is the weather like in Saline?
July highs average about 85 degrees, and January highs near 35 with lows near 17. That works out to about 92 pleasant days a year, more than 62% of towns.
Is Saline good for families?
Schools beat 82% of towns, crime safety beats 78%, and childcare runs $1,094 a month.
Compare Saline with other towns
Sources and methodology
Every measure on this page is scored for each neighborhood, then rolled up to Saline. Scores are absolute rather than ranked, which means a 60 in Saline represents the same real quantity as a 60 anywhere else, and the ranking is a weighted average of those absolutes. The map colors come from a national scale calibrated against a population weighted random sample of 5,000 neighborhoods. That absolute scoring is what no other places-to-live ranking does: it puts a single neighborhood, a town, a metro, and a state on one scale, so the same 40 measures answer both which metro to move to and which street inside it to buy on. Read the full methodology.
Saline detail on BestNeighborhood maps:
- Walk Grade for Saline: walkability, transit, and biking, measured on the real street network rather than by straight line distance.
- Noise in Saline: road, rail, and aviation sound modeling calibrated against federal ground truth measurements.
- Conservative vs liberal map of Saline: precinct level election results apportioned to neighborhoods.
- Mobile and cell coverage in Saline: carrier by carrier coverage behind the cell score.
Saline detail on related sites:
- CrimeGrade: neighborhood crime rates behind the crime safety score.
- ISPreports.org: provider by provider internet availability and advertised speeds.
- CoverageWatch: the car insurance premiums behind the cheap car insurance score.
Federal and public data:
- U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey: income, home value, rent, vacancy, commute time and mode, educational attainment, home age, age structure, household type, industry, and race.
- NOAA Global Surface Summary of the Day: the daily station record behind the monthly temperatures and the pleasant-day count.
- FAA Passenger Boarding Data: airport size and annual passenger counts.
- Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Market Survey: the 30-year fixed rate used in the cost-to-buy estimate.
- FBI Crime Data Explorer: reported offenses behind the tangible crime cost estimate.
- U.S. EPA Air Quality System: five year average air quality index.
- FEMA National Risk Index: expected annual loss from natural hazards.
- CDC PLACES: disease burden, preventable risk, and barriers to care.
- National Center for Education Statistics: school enrollment and assessment inputs behind the school grade.
- FCC National Broadband Map: internet and wireless availability.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: employment and job growth behind the local economy score.
- Religious activity uses a proprietary religious signal measurement.
Your priorities
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