Fair Lawn is a medium-sized borough located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 36,489 people and eight associated neighborhoods, Fair Lawn is the 47th largest community in New Jersey. Housing costs in Fair Lawn are among some of the highest in the nation, although real estate prices here don't compare to real estate prices in the most expensive communities in New Jersey.Fair Lawn is a decidedly white-collar borough, with fully 90.03% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Fair Lawn is a borough of professionals, managers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fair Lawn who work in teaching (11.83%), management occupations (10.94%), and business and financial occupations (10.70%). Also of interest is that Fair Lawn has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US. One interesting thing about the economy is that relatively large numbers of people worked from their home: 20.22% of the workforce. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce this is high compared to the rest of the county. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes. Because of many things, Fair Lawn is a very good place for families to consider. With an enviable combination of good schools, low crime, college-educated neighbors who tend to support education because of their own experiences, and a high rate of home ownership in predominantly single-family properties, Fair Lawn really has some of the features that families look for when choosing a good community to raise children. Is Fair Lawn perfect? Of course not, and if you like frenetic nightlife, it will be far from your cup of tea. But overall this is a solid community, with many things to recommend it as a family-friendly place to live. One downside of living in Fair Lawn is that it can take a long time to commute to work. In Fair Lawn, the average commute to work is 30.41 minutes, which is quite a bit higher than the national average. On the other hand, local public transit is widely used in the borough, so leaving the car at home and taking transit is often a viable alternative. Like elsewhere in America, most people in Fair Lawn use a private automobile to get to work. But notably, a substantial number of Fair Lawn‘s citizens do make use of public transit in their daily commute, primarily riding the train. This helps more people get to work with less air pollution, and require fewer highways to get them there.If knowledge is power, Fair Lawn is a pretty powerful place. 63.32% of the adults in Fair Lawn have earned a 4-year college degree, masters degree, MD, law degree, or even PhD. Compare that to the national average of 21.84% for all cities and towns. The per capita income in Fair Lawn in 2022 was $57,795, which is middle income relative to New Jersey, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $231,180 for a family of four. Fair Lawn is an extremely ethnically-diverse borough. The people who call Fair Lawn home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Fair Lawn residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Fair Lawn also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 13.70% of the borough’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Fair Lawn include Italian, Irish, German, Polish, and Russian. Fair Lawn also has a high percentage of its population that was born in another country: 31.36%. The most common language spoken in Fair Lawn is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Slavic languages.
