Lachine’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Lachine has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Lachine has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Lachine than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Lachine may be for you.
Being a small town, Lachine does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Lachine is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.88% of adults 25 and older in Lachine have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Lachine in 2022 was $30,975, which is middle income relative to Michigan, and lower middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $123,900 for a family of four. However, Lachine contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Lachine home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lachine residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Lachine include German, English, Polish, French, and Irish.
The most common language spoken in Lachine is English. Other important languages spoken here include Italian and German/Yiddish.
