Fairfield County
Fairfield County is a county of Connecticut in the New York City metropolitan area, and is home to some of the wealthiest suburbs in the country.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Bridgeport and Stamford.
Bridgeport
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Bridgeport is a city in Connecticut. Bridgeport has beaches and parks, but the biggest attraction is the Klein Memorial Auditorium, a performing arts theater.
Stamford
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Stamford, Connecticut is the fourth largest city in the state, a center of regional activity in Fairfield County, and a hub of the Metro New York area.
Norwalk
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Norwalk is a city of 91,000 people in Fairfield County, in the state of Connecticut in the United States of America. It includes the villages of: East Norwalk, West Norwalk, Cranbury, Silvermine, Winnipauk, Wilson Point, Harbor View, Rowayton and South Norwalk, known locally as "SoNo." Norwalk, probably due mostly to its proximity to New York City, is home to many large companies.
Destinations to Discover
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Westport
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Westport is a town in the Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. Located in the Gold Coast along the Long Island Sound, it is 48 miles northeast of New York City and is part of the Western Connecticut Planning Region.
Greenwich
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Greenwich is a town of about 60,000 in Fairfield County, southwestern Connecticut. It is one of the wealthiest communities in America and is blessed with lush and beautiful scenery and many large and impressive houses.
Fairfield
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Fairfield is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It borders the city of Bridgeport and towns of Trumbull, Easton, Weston, and Westport along the Gold Coast of Connecticut.
Stratford
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Stratford is a town in Connecticut. Stratford, Connecticut was founded in 1639. It is in New England and located on the Long Island Sound. It is east of the Housatonic River and it also part of Fairfield County.
New Canaan
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New Canaan is a town in Connecticut. The town is one of the most affluent communities in the United States. In 2008, CNN Money ranked New Canaan first in the nation with the highest median family income.
Darien
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Darien is a coastal town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It is the smallest town on Connecticut's Gold Coast. Situated on the Long Island Sound between the cities of Stamford and Norwalk, Darien is a commuter town for New York City.
Trumbull
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Trumbull is a town located in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. The town is part of the Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, and borders on the cities of Bridgeport and Shelton, as well as the towns of Stratford, Fairfield, Easton and Monroe.
Ridgefield
Wilton
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Wilton is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. As of the 2020 census, the town population was 18,503. The town is part of the Western Connecticut Planning Region.
Monroe
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Monroe is a town of 20,000 people in Fairfield County. Monroe is largely considered a bedroom community of New York City, New Haven, and Bridgeport.
Brookfield
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Brookfield is an affluent town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States, situated within the southern foothills of the Berkshire Mountains. The town is located 43 mi northeast of New York City, making it part of the New York metropolitan area.
Black Rock
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Black Rock is a neighborhood in the southwestern section of the city of Bridgeport, Connecticut. It borders Fairfield and the Ash Creek tidal estuary on the west, the West Side/West End of Bridgeport on the north and east, and Black Rock Harbor and Long Island Sound on the south.
Fairfield County
- Type: County with 957,000 residents
- Description: county in Connecticut, United States
- Also known as: “Fairfield County, Connecticut” and “Fairfield County, CT”
- Neighbors: Dutchess County, Putnam County, Suffolk County, and Westchester County
- Categories: county of Connecticut and locality
- Location: Connecticut, New England, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
41.2943° or 41° 17′ 40″ northLongitude of center
-73.3749° or 73° 22′ 30″ westPopulation
957,000OpenStreetMap ID
node 316945348OpenStreetMap feature
place=countyWikidata ID
Q54231
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Panjabi—“Fairfield County” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Fairfield County”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة فيرفيلد”
- Armenian: “Ֆեյրֆիլդ շրջան”
- Asturian: “condáu de Fairfield”
- Asturian: “Condáu de Fairfield”
- Azerbaijani: “Ferfild dairəsi”
- Basque: “Fairfield konderria”
- Bavarian: “Fairfield County, Connecticut”
- Bavarian: “Fairfield County”
- Belarusian: “акруга Фэрфілд”
- Belarusian: “графства Фэрфілд”
- Belarusian: “Фэрфілд (акруга)”
- Belarusian: “Фэрфілд (графства)”
- Belarusian: “Фэрфілд”
- Bishnupriya: “ফেয়ারফিল্ড কাউন্টি, কানেকটিকাট”
- Bishnupriya: “ফেয়ারফিল্ড কাউন্টি”
- Bulgarian: “Феърфийлд”
- Catalan: “comtat de Fairfield”
- Cebuano: “Fairfield County”
- Chechen: “Рфилд (гуо, Коннектикут)”
- Chechen: “Рфилд”
- Chinese: “Fairfield Kūn”
- Chinese: “費爾菲爾德縣”
- Czech: “Fairfield County”
- Danish: “Fairfield County”
- Dutch: “Fairfield County”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فيرفيلد كاونتى”
- Esperanto: “kantono Fairfield”
- Esperanto: “Kantono Fairfield”
- Estonian: “Fairfieldi maakond”
- Finnish: “Fairfieldin piirikunta”
- French: “comté de Fairfield”
- French: “Comté de Fairfield”
- Galician: “Condado de Fairfield”
- Georgian: “ფერფილდის ოლქი”
- German: “Fairfield County”
- Gilaki: “فیرفیلد شهرستان (کنتیکت)”
- Gilaki: “فیرفیلد شهرستان”
- Greek: “Κομητεία Φαίρφιλντ”
- Greek: “κομητεία Φέρφιλντ”
- Hebrew: “מחוז פיירפילד”
- Hungarian: “Fairfield megye”
- Indonesian: “Fairfield County, Connecticut”
- Indonesian: “Fairfield County”
- Irish: “Contae Fairfield, Connecticut”
- Irish: “Contae Fairfield”
- Italian: “contea di Fairfield”
- Italian: “Contea di Fairfield”
- Japanese: “フェアフィールド・カウンティ”
- Japanese: “フェアフィールド郡”
- Korean: “페어필드군”
- Limburgan: “Fairfield County”
- Low German: “Fairfield County”
- Marathi: “फेरफील्ड काउंटी, कनेटिकट”
- Marathi: “फेरफील्ड काउंटी”
- Mazanderani: “فیرفیلد شهرستان”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Fairfield Gông”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Fairfield Kūn”
- Northern Frisian: “Fairfield County”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fairfield County”
- Norwegian: “Fairfield County”
- Ossetian: “Фэрфилд (зылд, Коннектикут)”
- Ossetian: “Фэрфилд”
- Persian: “شهرستان فیرفیلد، کنتیکت”
- Persian: “شهرستان فیرفیلد”
- Polish: “Hrabstwo Fairfield”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Fairfield”
- Romanian: “comitatul Fairfield, Connecticut”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Fairfield, Connecticut”
- Romanian: “Fairfield”
- Russian: “Фэрфилд”
- Sardinian: “contea de Fairfield”
- Serbian: “Округ Ферфилд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fairfield County, Connecticut”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fairfield County”
- Slovenian: “Fairfield County”
- Slovenian: “Okrožje Fairfield”
- Spanish: “Condado de Fairfield (Connecticut)”
- Spanish: “Condado de Fairfield”
- Swedish: “Fairfield County, Connecticut”
- Swedish: “Fairfield County”
- Tatar: “Рфилд (округ, Коннектикут)”
- Tatar: “Рфилд”
- Turkish: “Fairfield County, Conn.”
- Turkish: “Fairfield County, Connecticut”
- Turkish: “Fairfield County, CT”
- Turkish: “Fairfield County”
- Turkish: “Fairfield ilçesi, Conn.”
- Turkish: “Fairfield ilçesi, Connecticut”
- Turkish: “Fairfield ilçesi, CT”
- Turkish: “Fairfield ilçesi”
- Ukrainian: “Ферфілд”
- Urdu: “فیئرفیلڈ کاؤنٹی، کنیکٹیکٹ”
- Urdu: “فیئرفیلڈ کاؤنٹی”
- Venetian: “contea de Fairfield”
- Vietnamese: “Fairfield, Connecticut”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Fairfield, Connecticut”
- Vietnamese: “Quận Fairfield”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Fairfield, Connecticut”
- Waray (Philippines): “Condado han Fairfield”
- Welsh: “Fairfield County, Connecticut”
- Welsh: “Fairfield County, Connecticut”
- Welsh: “Fairfield County”
- Western Panjabi: “فیرفیلڈ کاؤنٹی”
- “Fairfield County”
- “Fairfield County (Connecticut)”
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