Fair Lawn, NJ real estate and demographic information

About Fair Lawn

Fair Lawn is a medium-sized borough located in the state of New Jersey. With a population of 32,669 people and five constituent neighborhoods, Fair Lawn is the 52nd 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 87.13% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Fair Lawn is a borough of professionals, sales and office workers and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Fair Lawn who work in office and administrative support (16.17%), management occupations (13.78%) and sales jobs (10.58%).

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.

Of important note, Fair Lawn is also a borough of artists. Fair Lawn has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Fair Lawn’s character.

In addition, Fair Lawn is home to many people who could be described as "urban sophisticates". Urban sophisticates are people who are both educated and wealthy, and thus tend to be older, richer, and more established than young professionals. "Urban sophisticates" is not just about being educated and well-off financially: it is a point of view and state of mind, one that you might call 'urbaneness'. But such people can and do regularly live in small towns, suburbs and rural areas, as well as in big cities. They read, support the arts and high-end shops, and love travel.

Fair Lawn is a good choice for families with children because of several factors. Many other families with children live here, making it a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families. The borough’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic success. Many people own their own single-family homes, providing areas for children to play and stability in the community. Finally, Fair Lawn’s overall crime rate is lower than average for the country.

For the size of the borough, public transportation in Fair Lawn is quite heavily used. Mostly, people who use it for their daily commute are taking the train. For Fair Lawn, the benefits are reduced air pollution and congestion on the highways.

Fair Lawn Information and Demographics

The citizens of Fair Lawn are among the most well-educated in the nation: 48.83% of adults in Fair Lawn have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree, whereas the average US city has 21.84% holding at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Fair Lawn in 2010 was $40,146, which is upper middle income relative to New Jersey, and wealthy relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $160,584 for a family of four.

Fair Lawn is a somewhat 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 10.15% of the borough’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Fair Lawn include Italian, Russian, Irish, German, Polish and European.

Foreign born people are also an important part of Fair Lawn's cultural character, accounting for 26.34% of the borough’s population.

The languages spoken by people in Fair Lawn are also diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in Fair Lawn is English. Other important languages spoken here include Russian, Spanish and Hebrew.