Michigan · Census place 2671140

Saline, Michigan

Saline is a city in Washtenaw County, Michigan with an estimated 9,101 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 100th largest of 353 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
9,101
#100 of 353 in Michigan
Change since 2020
+1.3%
+116 people
Land area
4.3 sq mi
+ 0.07 sq mi water
Density
2,097 / sq mi
State median 2,478
Orange pin: Saline. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Lansing.

Saline population, 2020 to 2024

Saline added 116 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.3%. In the latest year it moved by +11. Among 153 Michigan places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 30th; the median place changed by -0.5%. The median place of 5,000+ in Michigan has 12,132 people, so Saline is 75% of it.

8,98520208,91420218,97620229,09020239,1012024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 8,949. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Saline covers 4.34 square miles of land and 0.07 of water, for 2,097 people per square mile of land. The median Michigan place of 5,000+ has 2,478, so Saline is less dense than the typical town.

What county Saline is in

All of Saline's residents live in Washtenaw County, which had 373,875 residents in 2024. Saline holds 2.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Saline

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Saline by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 48176. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Saline is

The Census internal point of Saline is at 42.173800, -83.776900. Lansing, the capital, is 55.4 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Ann Arbor, MI (122,925 people), 7.5 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
42.173800, -83.776900
DMS
42°10'25.68"N 83°46'36.84"W
UTM
17N 270641.6E 4672806.4N
Geohash
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Plus code
86JR56FF+G6

Daylight in Saline

At 42.17° N, Saline gets about 15 h 16 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 06 min around the December solstice, a swing of 6 h 10 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Saline

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Michigan, measured between internal points. The closest is Ann Arbor, 7.4 miles away, with 122,925 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Saline, MI?

9,101 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 116 (1.3%) from 8,985 in July 2020.

What county is Saline in?

Washtenaw County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Saline?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 48176.

How far is Saline from Lansing?

55.4 miles (89.2 km) in a straight line, heading NW from Saline.

What is the nearest larger city to Saline?

Ann Arbor, MI, with 122,925 residents, 7.5 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.