Most working residents leave Fairfield for work: only 5% work in town. The top destinations are Vineland (16%), Bridgeton (12%) and Millville (6%). Half commute less than 17 miles.
Fairfield’s public schools outperform 7% of New Jersey districts
The public schools Fairfield’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 93% of New Jersey’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
Fairfield has chilly winters and warm summers. A typical July afternoon reaches 86°, a January night drops to 26°, and about 12 inches of snow falls in a normal winter.
Fairfield Township is a township in Cumberland County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is part of the Vineland-Bridgeton metropolitan statistical area, which encompasses all of Cumberland County for statistical purposes and which constitutes a part of the Philadelphia metropolitan area. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 5,546, a decrease of 749 (−11.9%) from the 2010 census count of 6,295, which in turn reflected an increase of 12 (+0.2%) from the 6,283 counted in the 2000 census. Fairfield Township was formed by royal charter on May 12, 1697, from portions of the Cohansey Township area, while still part of Salem County, and was formed as a precinct in t…
