About Fairfield

Fairfield is a tiny city located in the state of Idaho. With a population of 431 people and just one neighborhood, Fairfield is the 107th largest community in Idaho.

Because occupations involving physical labor dominate the local economy, Fairfield is generally considered to be a blue-collar town. 40.4% of the Fairfield workforce is employed in blue-collar occupations, compared to the national average of 24.7%. Overall, Fairfield is a city of service providers, professionals, and construction workers and builders. There are especially a lot of people living in Fairfield who work in teaching (10.43%), food service (10.00%), and office and administrative support jobs (8.70%).

In addition, many people in Fairfield have jobs in agriculture, more so than in most other communities in America. As a result, you will see quite a number of farms around town.

Being a small city, Fairfield does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.

Fairfield Information and Demographics

The percentage of adults in Fairfield who are college-educated is close to the national average for all communities of 14.96%: 15.65% of the adults in Fairfield have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree.

The per capita income in Fairfield in 2000 was $21,504, which is wealthy relative to Idaho, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $86,016 for a family of four.

The people who call Fairfield home come from a variety of different races and ancestries. The most prevalent race in Fairfield is White, followed by Native American. Important ancestries of people in Fairfield include English, German, Irish, Italian, Norwegian, Danish, and Dutch.

The most common language spoken in Fairfield is English.