Fair Lawn, New Jersey
| Fair Lawn, New Jersey | |
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| Borough | |
| Borough of Fair Lawn | |
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| Motto: "A great place to visit and a better place to live." | |
 Map highlighting Fair Lawn's location within Bergen County. Inset: Bergen County's location within New Jersey |
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 Census Bureau map of Fair Lawn, New Jersey |
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| Coordinates: 40°56′09″N 74°07′03″W / 40.935833°N 74.117504°WCoordinates: 40°56′09″N 74°07′03″W / 40.935833°N 74.117504°W | |
| Country |  United States |
| State |
 New Jersey
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| County | Bergen |
| Incorporated | March 6, 1924 |
| Named for | David Acker's estate, Fairlawn |
| Government | |
| • Type | Faulkner Act (Council-Manager) |
| • Body | Borough Council |
| • Mayor | John Cosgrove (R, term ends December 31, 2017) |
| • Manager | Jim Van Kruiningen |
| • Clerk | Joanne M. Kwasniewski |
| Area | |
| • Total | 5.201 sq mi (13.472 km2) |
| • Land | 5.139 sq mi (13.311 km2) |
| • Water | 0.062 sq mi (0.161 km2) 1.20% |
| Area rank | 270th of 566 in state 11th of 70 in county |
| Elevation | 69 ft (21 m) |
| Population (2010 Census) | |
| • Total | 32,457 |
| • Estimate (2015) | 33,597 |
| • Rank | 69th of 566 in state 4th of 70 in county |
| • Density | 6,315.4/sq mi (2,438.4/km2) |
| • Density rank | 77th of 566 in state 22nd of 70 in county |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | Eastern (EDT) (UTC-4) |
| ZIP code | 07410 |
| Area code(s) | 201 exchanges: 398, 475, 703, 791, 794, 796, 797 |
| FIPS code | 3400322470 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0885214 |
| Website | www |
Fair Lawn is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, and a suburban municipality in the New York City Metropolitan Area. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's population was 32,457, reflecting an increase of 820 (+2.6%) from the 31,637 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn increased by 1,089 (+3.6%) from the 30,548 counted in the 1990 Census.
Fair Lawn was incorporated as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 6, 1924, as "Fairlawn," from portions of Saddle River Township. The name was taken from Fairlawn, David Acker's estate home, that was built in 1865 and later became the Fair Lawn Municipal Building. In 1933, the official spelling of the borough's name 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 home to a large number of commuters to New York City, to which it is connected by train from two railroad stations on NJ Transit's Bergen County Line, the Radburn and Broadway stations.
Fair Lawn's motto is "A great place to visit and a better place to live." Fair Lawn has been rated as one of the top 10 best places to live in New Jersey. According to Nerdwallet, Fair Lawn witnessed a 5.3% increase in its working-age population between 2009 and 2011.
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