Saline, Michigan.
Typical home $465,396 (+2.5% in a year), asking rent $1,784 . Ann Arbor, MI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,129 (+86%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $11,473 +3%
- $453,923$465,396 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $66,229 +17%
- $399,168$465,396 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Saline$2,443
- Michigan$1,384
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 23 years.
Typical home values in Saline, MI rose 2.5% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Saline, Washtenaw County, Michigan
Saline is a city of 8,948 people in Washtenaw County. Half its households earn more than $88,346 a year and half less, against $89,180 across Washtenaw County; 6% of its people live below the poverty line. 69% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 31% are rented. Unemployment in Washtenaw County was 4.2% in August 2026, and the county had 0.6% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Saline is a small city in Washtenaw County, with a population older than in many American towns. Most homes are lived in by their owners, and incomes sit just below the county's. Typical home values are high, and rents are not low either. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Precipitation falls fairly evenly through the year as rain and melted snow.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with many others in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in manufacturing, and in professional and business services. Among the largest workplaces in Saline are Saline Area Schools, JAC Products Saline and Saline Lectronics. A good number of people work from home, and a typical commute is moderate, so many residents are well placed to reach jobs elsewhere in the county.
Things to do. Close by, a short drive away, are the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, both museums, and Buhr Park, a park for time outdoors. For a longer outing, The Henry Ford, a museum, is a longer drive away.
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- 3,991households
- 59%of adults have a degree
- 6%below the poverty line
- 28 mintypical commute
- 23%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Washtenaw County had 219,230 jobs in 2025, 0.6% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 14°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 59°. About 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Saline Wwtp weather station, under a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Saline
- Saline Area SchoolsSchool district648FTE
- JAC Products SalineRacks, automotive, truck, and buses manufacturing257
- Saline LectronicsPrinted circuit assemblies manufacturing195
- City of Saline, MichiganCity and town managers' offices152
- Home Appliance MartAppliance stores, household-type133
- DAVCO TechnologiesOil filters, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing90
- Norgren Automation SolutionsTubing, flexible metal, manufacturing63
- CJKPrinting and binding books without publishing49
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 11 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,080 people in all. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Strong windRelatively high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Cold wavesRelatively high
- Ice stormsRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
- LightningRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Saline’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Washtenaw County and the Ann Arbor, MI metro.
Saline home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Saline$465,396
- Michigan$263,760
- United States$366,157
Levy by levy, and a check of one home’s own bill, the site covers Ohio’s property tax.
Sellers are cutting prices on about 1 in 3 Saline listings, and the typical home goes pending in 33 days — the market is cooling.
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Share of listings with a price cut
The early-warning dial: sellers cut when buyers stop reaching. Rising cuts cool a market months before prices notice.
- Saline29.11%
- United States26.90%
Days to pending
How long the typical listing takes to go under contract.
- Saline33
- United States27
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Saline99
New listings per month
Sellers arriving at the market.
- Saline31
Median sale price
What buyers actually paid — closed sales, not asking prices.
- Saline$424,234
- United States$371,553
Sale-to-list ratio
Above 100%, homes sell over asking; below, buyers negotiate wins.
- Saline100.96%
Zip codes with a Saline address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Saline — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.