Per Japanese census data,[3] the population of Chino has recently plateaued after a long period of growth.

On February 1, 1955, the town of Chino annexed the neighboring villages of Miyakawa, Kanzawa, Tamagawa, Toyohira, Azumino, Kitayama, Kohigashi, and Yonezawa.

The program romantically matches area residents with non-residents via "old fashioned" means of the written word.

[5] Chino has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral city legislature of 18 members.

Chino is noted for its production of kanten, a type of agar, and the growing of celery and lettuce.