Chinle’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the nation, making it a very safe place to live.
Being a small town, Chinle does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In terms of college education, Chinle is nearly on par with the US average for all cities of 21.84%: 17.09% of adults 25 and older in Chinle have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.
The per capita income in Chinle in 2018 was $21,035, which is lower middle income relative to Arizona, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $84,140 for a family of four. However, Chinle contains both very wealthy and poor people as well. Chinle also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 41.76% of its population below the federal poverty line.
The people who call Chinle home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Chinle residents report their race to be Native American, followed by White. Important ancestries of people in Chinle include Norwegian, German, Eastern European, Welsh, and Swedish.
The most common language spoken in Chinle is Native American languages. Other important languages spoken here include Navajo and English.
