Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Fairton, NJ

Fairton is an unincorporated community and census-designated place within Fairfield Township in Cumberland County, New Jersey, and it is part of the Vineland–Millville–Bridgeton metropolitan area.

The 2020 census counted 1,060 people in Fairton, down from 1,264 people in 529 households at the 2010 census.

Fairton covers about 2.99 square miles in total, of which roughly 2.86 square miles is land and 0.13 square miles is water.

Fairton is one of Fairfield Township's three population centers, alongside Sea Breeze and Gouldtown, and the community was originally named Bumbridge.

The Fairfield area's first industry was a grist mill on Forke Creek in which English settler Samuel Fithian held an interest before 1702, and the mill was later owned by David Clark from 1759 to 1843.

In the 1810s a pork and beef business was Fairton's principal industry, and the community was later active in boat building, with its yards launching three sloops between 1850 and 1897.

In 1978 the Indigenous peoples based in Cumberland County reorganized as the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation, whose cultural center is based in Fairton and whose tribal headquarters are in nearby Bridgeton; the tribe reported about 3,000 enrolled members in 2016.

Public school students from Fairton in ninth through twelfth grades attend Cumberland Regional High School in Upper Deerfield Township, a regional school that serves seven communities in northwestern Cumberland County.