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 addition of 2,470 (+7.6%) from the 2010 census add up of 32,457, which in turn reflected an deposit of 820 (+2.6%) from the 31,637 counted at the 2000 census.

Fair Lawn was incorporated as a borough by an skirmish of the New Jersey Legislature upon March 6, 1924, as “Fairlawn”, from portions of Saddle River Township. The declare was taken from Fairlawn, David Acker’s estate home, that was built in 1865 and sophisticated became the Fair Lawn Municipal Building. In 1933, the approved spelling of the borough’s declare 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 house to a large number of commuters to New York City, to which it is united by train from two railroad stations upon NJ Transit’s Bergen County Line, the Radburn and Broadway stations.

Fair Lawn’s motto, coined by Jake Janso, is “A good place to visit and a augmented place to live.” Fair Lawn has been rated as one of the summit 10 best places to rouse in New Jersey. According to Nerdwallet, Fair Lawn witnessed a 5.3% increase in its working-age population with 2009 and 2011.