Fair Lawn, New Jersey

Fair Lawn population, 2020 to 2024

Fair Lawn added 1,622 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.7%. In the latest year it moved by +598. Among 194 New Jersey places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 21st; the median place changed by +1.8%. The median place of 5,000+ in New Jersey has 11,231 people, so Fair Lawn is 3.2 times that size.

Fair Lawn covers 5.14 square miles of land and 0.09 of water, for 7,099 people per square mile of land. The median New Jersey place of 5,000+ has 4,474, so Fair Lawn is denser than the typical town.

What county Fair Lawn is in

All of Fair Lawn's residents live in Bergen County, which had 978,641 residents in 2024. Fair Lawn holds 3.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Fair Lawn

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Fair Lawn by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the borough's land: 07410. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a borough that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Fair Lawn is

The Census internal point of Fair Lawn is at 40.935800, -74.117500. Trenton, the capital, is 59.7 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Paterson, NJ (160,463 people), 2.8 miles away.

Daylight in Fair Lawn

At 40.94° N, Fair Lawn gets about 15 h 07 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 14 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 53 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Fair Lawn

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in New Jersey, measured between internal points. The closest is Glen Rock, 1.7 miles away, with 12,346 people.