FairlawnVA
A town of 2,488 in Virginia.
Is Fairlawn a good place to live?
The best of Fairlawn’s subject grades is an A− for health. 31% of residents are 65 or older in Fairlawn, where Virginia’s towns sit at 16% and U.S. towns at 18%. Among 254 Virginia towns, just 2 have a higher age of the median resident than Fairlawn. St. Albans Hospital is on the National Register of Historic Places. Fairlawn has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade.
What makes Fairlawn stand out
Where Fairlawn beats most towns.
How Fairlawn grades
Each subject compared with towns across the country (schools within Virginia), ordered by how far Fairlawn is from typical.
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Moving to Fairlawn: who provides what
Fairlawn is unincorporated, so Pulaski County and regional agencies provide most services.
EPA SDWIS (Oct 9, 2026) · HIFLD + EIA-861 2025 · Census 2020 ZCTAs · NCES 2024–25 · registration: vote.gov, updated Sep 30, 2026.
The data
Ordered by what stands out in Fairlawn.
Fairlawn faces a very low natural-hazard risk, led by inland flooding
Storm and flood damage is expected to run lower than in 88% of U.S. communities. 68% of Fairlawn’s expected losses from natural hazards come from inland flooding, followed by cold waves at 13%. Households here have drawn federal disaster aid once, in 2024.
FEMA National Risk Index · OpenFEMA
On state tests, Fairlawn’s schools beat 66% of Virginia districts
Its one school is below. Public schools: the Pulaski County Public Schools. Fairlawn’s only public school teaches 380 students.
| School | Level | Students | Letter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Riverlawn ElementaryLargest public elementary schoolGrades PK–5 | Grades PK–5 | 380 | C |
NCES · EDFacts · graded within VA on state tests and graduation
Residents of Fairlawn are healthier than 78% of U.S. towns
Two figures for adults in Fairlawn: 82% had a checkup this year, 15% report frequent mental distress. Against the Virginia average, Fairlawn comes out ahead on 11 CDC measures out of 32, and behind on 3. For adults here, the share who feel lonely is 30%.
| Fairlawn | Virginia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feel lonely (CDC PLACES) | 30% | 34% | 33% |
| Yearly checkup (CDC PLACES) | 82% | 79% | 79% |
| Frequent mental distress (CDC PLACES) | 15% | 16% | 17% |
| Food insecurity (CDC PLACES) | 8.3% | 12% | 14% |
| What stands out | Fairlawn | VA |
|---|---|---|
| Fewer older adults who have lost all their teeth | 6.6% | 11.1% |
| Fewer adults facing food insecurity | 8.3% | 13.1% |
| More adults who have had cancer | 11% | 7.7% |
CDC PLACES 2025 · modeled estimates for adults · CMS · HRSA
A older population than Virginia as a whole
Just over two in five adults 25 and older hold a bachelor’s degree or more in Fairlawn. People 65 and older are 31% of residents (17% statewide); adults 18 to 34 are 14% of residents (23% statewide).
Ages · share of residents
Education · adults 25 and older
Women and men · all residents
52% women, 48% men
That’s an even split within the survey’s margin of ±6.4 points. Across Virginia, 50.6% of residents are women.
| Fairlawn | VA | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 10 | 7% | 11.6% | 11.6% |
| 10 to 17 | 9.5% | 10.1% | 10.3% |
| 18 to 24 | 4% | 9.3% | 9.1% |
| 25 to 34 | 9.8% | 13.5% | 13.7% |
| 35 to 44 | 13.5% | 13.6% | 13.2% |
| 45 to 54 | 5.9% | 12.5% | 12.2% |
| 55 to 64 | 19.3% | 12.8% | 12.7% |
| 65 to 74 | 16.7% | 9.9% | 10.2% |
| 75 and older | 14.3% | 6.8% | 7% |
| No diploma | 4.5% | 8.4% | 10.4% |
| High school | 26.7% | 23.9% | 26% |
| Some college | 21% | 17.7% | 19.1% |
| Associate’s | 5.6% | 7.8% | 8.8% |
| Bachelor’s | 26.2% | 23.7% | 21.6% |
| Graduate | 16% | 18.5% | 14.1% |
U.S. Census Bureau · ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimates · in a town of 2,500, single groups can be off by several points
Expect four seasons and pleasant summers in Fairlawn
For Fairlawn, the typical July afternoon high is 84°F.
Typical low → high °F
NOAA U.S. Climate Normals, 1991–2020
With only 0.9 jobs per working resident, most people in Fairlawn work out of town
Employers in Fairlawn added 439 jobs between 2013 and 2023, to 931. Commuting out is the norm in the town: 3% of working residents work locally. For Fairlawn, the median household income is $67,000. Half of commuters travel less than 10 miles.
| Fairlawn | Virginia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Average trip to work | 22 minutes | 27 minutes | 25 minutes |
| Median household income | $67,000 | $102,000 | $80,000 |
| Below the poverty line | 4.9% | 7.7% | 9.6% |
| Working residents who work in town | 2.6% | 4.9% | 8% |
Where working residents work
Census LEHD 2023 · ACS
5.4% of the land in Fairlawn is protected from building
The trail network density for Fairlawn comes to 1.0 miles per square mile.
| Fairlawn | Virginia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miles of trail per square mile | 1.0 miles per square mile | 0.7 | 0.4 |
| Conserved land | 5.4% | 4.7% | 4.3% |
Trails & parks © OpenStreetMap contributors · Conserved land: USGS PAD-US
Homes in Fairlawn sell for about $400K
The share of households in Fairlawn who live in a home they own: 84%. The town’s going rate for rent is $1,621 a month. In Fairlawn, 27% of sales closed above the list price.
| Fairlawn | Virginia towns | U.S. towns | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Households that own their home | 84% | 68% | 73% |
| Median rent | $1,621 a month | $1,762 a month | $1,185 a month |
Census ACS, 2020–24 · Zillow Home Value Index · Redfin Data Center
Appalachian Trail and 10 more within 40 miles
Museums, parks, gardens and other places to visit around Fairlawn. Close and well known come first.
Big draw17 mi Park & preserveAppalachian Trail3.0M visitors a year
22 mi ParkwayBlue Ridge Parkway16.5M visitors a year
8 mi Stadium & arenaLane Stadium
15 mi LakeMountain Lake
34 mi MuseumVirginia Museum of Transportation
34 mi MuseumTaubman Museum of ArtPhoto credits
Appalachian Trail: Paulba. Original uploader was Paulbalegend at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Blue Ridge Parkway: Ken Thomas, Public domain · Lane Stadium: User:B, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Mountain Lake: Rolfmueller, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Virginia Museum of Transportation: Warfieldian, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Taubman Museum of Art: O Palsson, CC BY 2.0
Everything we know about Fairlawn
Colleges nearby
4 within 15 miles of the center of Fairlawn
About 2 of every 100 Fairlawn residents are enrolled in college, against 7 across Virginia.
About Fairlawn
CDP in Virginia, United States
Fairlawn is a census-designated place (CDP) in Pulaski County, Virginia, United States. The population was 2,419 at the 2020 census up from 2,367 at the 2010 census. It is served by the Radford, Virginia post office and is located on the opposite side of the New River from Radford. Fairlawn is part of the Blacksburg–Christiansburg Metropolitan Statistical Area. Fairlawn is home to IHRA sanctioned Pulaski County Motorsports Park, formerly known as Motor Mile Speedway.
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- Area
- 3.5 sq mi
Fairlawn’s neighbors
2 towns share a border with Fairlawn.
Fairlawn has fewer than 2,500 residents, so it gets subject grades but no overall grade. Fairlawn reports no FBI crime data of its own. New River isn’t graded (fewer than 1,000 residents, or not enough data). Compare Fairlawn with a neighbor →
Questions about Fairlawn
Short answers, built from the data on this page.
Is Fairlawn, VA expensive?
The typical home is worth about $244,000, 41% below the Virginia typical home. Cost of living, which also weighs rents, property taxes and how many households pay 30% or more of their income for housing, grades C.