Fair Lawn, New Jersey
Fair Lawn is a borough in Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, and a bedroom suburb located 12 miles (19 km) northwest of New York City. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 34,927, an increase of 2,470 (+7.6%) from the 2010 census count of 32,457, which in turn reflected an increase of 820 (+2.6%) from the 31,637 counted in the 2000 census.
Fair Lawn, New Jersey | |
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Radburn Plaza | |
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| Motto(s): "A great place to visit and a better place to live." | |
Location of Fair Lawn in Bergen County highlighted in red (left). Inset map: Location of Bergen County in New Jersey highlighted in orange (right). | |
Census Bureau map of Fair Lawn, New Jersey
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Fair Lawn Location in Bergen County Fair Lawn Location in New Jersey Fair Lawn Location in the United States | |
| Coordinates: 40.935833°N 74.117504°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | New Jersey |
| County | Bergen |
| Incorporated | March 6, 1924 |
| Named for | David Acker's estate, Fairlawn |
| Government | |
| • Type | Faulkner Act (council–manager) |
| • Body | Borough Council |
| • Mayor | Cristina Cutrone (D, acting mayor for term ending December 31, 2025) |
| • Manager | Kurt Peluso |
| • Municipal clerk | Nicholas Magarelli |
| Area | |
| • Total | 5.22 sq mi (13.53 km2) |
| • Land | 5.13 sq mi (13.30 km2) |
| • Water | 0.09 sq mi (0.23 km2) 1.53% |
| • Rank | 271st of 565 in state 11th of 70 in county |
| Elevation | 69 ft (21 m) |
| Population (2020) | |
| • Total | 34,927 |
| • Estimate (2022) | 35,279 |
| • Rank | 68th of 565 in state 4th of 70 in county |
| • Density | 6,801.8/sq mi (2,626.2/km2) |
| • Rank | 71st of 565 in state 21st of 70 in county |
| Time zone | UTC−05:00 (Eastern (EST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−04:00 (Eastern (EDT)) |
| ZIP Code | 07410 |
| Area code(s) | 201 exchanges: 398, 475, 703, 791, 794, 796, 797 |
| FIPS code | 3400322470 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0885214 |
| Website | www |
Fair Lawn was incorporated as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 6, 1924, as "Fairlawn", from portions of Saddle River Township. The name was taken from Fairlawn, David Acker's estate home, that was built in 1865 and later became the Fair Lawn Municipal Building. In 1933, the official spelling of the borough's name was split into its present two-word form as "Fair Lawn" Borough.
Radburn, one of the first planned communities in the United States, is an unincorporated community located within Fair Lawn and was founded in 1929 as "a town for the motor age." Fair Lawn is home to a large number of commuters to New York City, to which it is connected by train from two railroad stations on NJ Transit's Bergen County Line, the Radburn and Broadway stations.
Fair Lawn's motto is "A great place to visit and a better place to live." Fair Lawn has been rated as one of the top 10 best places to live in New Jersey.