Fairfield, NJ

Roofing in Fairfield, NJ: Where I-80 Meets Route 46

Interstate 80 and Route 46 cut through Fairfield, the northwest corner of Essex County, in a township of 10.5 square miles. An estimated 3,137 homes share that space (Census, 2020-2024), the smallest housing stock of the five towns. Dial (862) 972-4008 and name the cross street; the highways split the township into pockets that are easy to describe by landmark.

Call (862) 972-4008

Small ranch and split-level homes along a quiet Lincoln Park street

Black membrane roof over a beige addition, a drain and a damp patch

What roofs here deal with

A small township where a roof counts as pavement

Fairfield's median home dates from 1974, give or take 5, and the 1960s lead with an estimated 897 homes, ahead of the 2000s at 703 and 101 homes built since 2020 (Census, 2020-2024). Margins on these are wide, a few hundred either way.

The township's engineering page defines an impervious surface as one that cannot let water back into the ground, and gives a roof as the example. Residential lots are limited to 35 percent. That matters when a bigger roof or an addition is planned, since the new roof counts toward the limit.

Weather record

Newark, also in Essex County, is the nearest almanac station in this set.

Its February normals (1991-2020) are 35.1 degrees and 10.1 inches of snow, the kind of month in which ice dams form. Fairfield's own totals are not in any source used here.

On the map

South across the Passaic

Straight-line distances run center to center, from the Census Bureau's 2024 internal points.

Lincoln Park roofing2.9 miles due north.
Pequannock roofing5.5 miles north.
Wayne roofing5.4 miles northeast.
Kinnelon roofing8.1 miles north-northwest.

Fairfield at the centre

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Checked 1 Nov 2026