Fairfield, Alabama

Fairfield population, 2020 to 2024

Fairfield lost 461 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -4.6%. In the latest year it moved by -79. Among 107 Alabama places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 102nd; the median place changed by +1.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Alabama has 14,094 people, so Fairfield is 68% of it.

Fairfield covers 3.46 square miles of land, for 2,753 people per square mile of land. The median Alabama place of 5,000+ has 715, so Fairfield is denser than the typical town.

What county Fairfield is in

All of Fairfield's residents live in Jefferson County, which had 664,744 residents in 2024. Fairfield holds 1.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Fairfield

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Fairfield by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 35064. 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 Fairfield is

The Census internal point of Fairfield is at 33.474800, -86.919400. Montgomery, the capital, is 83.9 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Homewood, AL (27,919 people), 6.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Birmingham, AL, 8.0 miles away.

Daylight in Fairfield

At 33.47° N, Fairfield gets about 14 h 23 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 56 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 27 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Fairfield

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alabama, measured between internal points. The closest is Midfield, 1.4 miles away, with 4,930 people.