Saline Community Guide

Don’t out yourself as a visitor: the city’s name is pronounced suh-LEEN, not SAY-leen. With a population just a touch over 9,000, Saline takes its name from the nearby salt springs, which were an important resource for both the Indigenous peoples who lived and passed through here and the Europeans who first settled the area in the 1820s. 

A former farming and factory town which for many years had a reputation as being a bit quiet, Saline has recently seen modest growth as it attracts new residents with its excellent schools, charming and historic downtown, and proximity to Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan. It’s also rapidly dispensing with its sleepy reputation, as annual events such as Oktoberfest, the Michigan Celtic Festival, and Salty Summer Sounds grow in popularity.

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