Photo: Missvain · CC BY 4.0Solano County Law Library didn’t send its yearly numbers to the Public Libraries Survey
Solano County Law Library serves 1 people in and around Fairfield.
What stands out about Solano County Law Library
Read from the library’s own yearly report. The page puts what stands out first.
What’s behind Fairfield’s civic life grade
On community nonprofits and volunteering, Fairfield is ahead of 8% of U.S. towns, #319 of 448 in California. Among the 385 U.S. cities over 100,000 we grade, it ranks #313. Fairfield is graded on two of the three inputs. Both inputs sit below most U.S. towns; Fairfield’s count of community nonprofits comes closest to the middle.
Most U.S. towns with similar household incomes ($76K–$127K) score higher, so income alone doesn’t account for it.
Civic life counts registered nonprofits, library visits and online volunteering groups, so it can miss civic life that runs through congregations, mutual aid or neighbors looking out for each other.
Library visits: IMLS Public Libraries Survey, FY2024. Nonprofits: IRS Exempt Organizations Business Master File, October 2026. Volunteering: Social Capital Atlas (Opportunity Insights), from data by Meta Platforms, Inc.; Chetty et al., Nature 2022. How TownRatings grades civic life →
297 community nonprofits are registered in Fairfield
2.5 per 1,000 residents, against a U.S. town median of 3.7. The largest group: human services.
Community nonprofits, by kind
Counted from the IRS list of tax-exempt organizations by mailing address (fractions where a ZIP code spans towns). Congregations are counted apart (101 here), since whether a church registers depends on its denomination, not the town. 18 more name a national or statewide reach and are left out.
4.5%
4.5% of Fairfield’s Facebook users aged 25–44 belong to a volunteering or activism group, against 5.9% in the typical California town and 7.5% nationally.
Volunteering: Social Capital Atlas (Opportunity Insights), from data by Meta Platforms, Inc.; Chetty et al., Nature 2022. ZIP-code figures, weighted by where Fairfield’s residents live; 2022.
3 places to borrow in Fairfield
Solano County Law Library, 600 Union Ave., Fairfield.
Hours are the survey’s yearly average. Check the library’s own site for today’s hours.
Other Solano County Law Library branches in Fairfield
Libraries next door
Who has a library of their own, and how much each town borrows. Tap a town to see its library.
| Town | Library | Loans per resident | Hours | Civic life |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fairfield | Solano County Law Library | — | 57 | D |
| Suisun City | Suisun City Library fine-free | — | 54 | C+ |
| Vacaville | Vacaville Public Library - Cultural Center fine-free | — | 63 | C− |
| Green Valley | None of its own | — | — | — unincorporated |
Loans = print + digital items borrowed in the library’s fiscal year, per person it serves. — = no library of its own, a county or regional system (its numbers cover many towns), or no report. Civic life: — = not graded (unincorporated places, whose nonprofits can’t be placed by mailing address, or towns with fewer than two of the three inputs).
What this data can and can’t tell you
From the Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024.
- System-wide. Solano County Law Library serves 1 people in and around Fairfield, so the yearly numbers cover all of them, not just Fairfield.
Hours are the survey’s yearly average; libraries are compared with others serving about as many people. How TownRatings uses library figures →
Questions about the library and civic life in Fairfield
Does Fairfield have a public library?
Yes. Solano County Law Library, 600 Union Ave., serves 1 people in and around Fairfield (the survey’s count) and is open about 57 hours a week, averaged over the year.
Is Solano County Law Library fine-free?
It charges late fines on some overdue items (the library’s 2024 survey report).
What is Fairfield’s civic life grade?
D Fairfield is ahead of 8% of U.S. towns on civic life, #319 of 448 in California. The grade combines library visits per resident, community nonprofits per 1,000 residents and the share of adults 25–44 in volunteering groups. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
Book talk
Reading, story times and the library in Fairfield.
Libraries: Institute of Museum and Library Services, Public Libraries Survey, fiscal year 2024. Each library reports its own numbers. Distances are straight-line from the town center. “What your card is worth” uses typical retail prices and is an estimate, not an official figure.