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Fairfield, Alabama
9,503 Black residents · 95.0% of the place
Fairfield is a city in Alabama, entered in this gazetteer on its published 2020 figures: 10,000 residents in all, 9,503 of them Black alone — 95.0% of the place.
Civic Snapshot
| Measure | Figure |
|---|---|
| Total population, 2020 | 10,000 |
| Black residents (alone), 2020 | 9,503 |
| Black share of the place, 2020 | 95.0% |
| Rank by Black population among Alabama places | 18 of 593 |
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census Redistricting File (Public Law 94-171), Table P1 (race). Trend: U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 Census Redistricting File (Public Law 94-171), Table P1.
Population Trend
Across the last two censuses, the Black population of Fairfield declined — 10,518 in 2010 and 9,503 in 2020, a change of -9.7%. The Black share of Fairfield moved from 94.6% to 95.0% over the same span.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census Redistricting File (Public Law 94-171), Table P1 (race). Trend: U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 Census Redistricting File (Public Law 94-171), Table P1.
The Record
The gazetteer enters Fairfield among Alabama's 593 counted places, at rank 18 by Black population on a count of 9,503. The figures for Fairfield are the Bureau's published redistricting counts for the place as bounded, reproduced without adjustment.
Institutions
Fairfield is a place of 10,000 people, and it carries its institutions at its own scale — congregations, schools, and businesses recorded in the federal counts as counts, and in this gazetteer as part of the county and state frames above this entry. The entry's work is the fixing of Fairfield itself: its name, its state, its people, and its share, in the same terms as every other place in the book.