Named after the extremely
large area of salt-marshes and swamps both on the coast and
inland, Fairfield County is
located in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Connecticut. Its population
according to the 2000 census was 882,567, but a 2006 survey
put the population at 905,000. It is the most populous county
in the State of Connecticut.
It is one of the highest-income counties in
the United States and makes Connecticut one of the
richest states in the United States because of towns in
the southwestern part of the county also know as the Gold
Coast which contain extreme wealth. This area is aproximately
from Southport
to Greenwich,
and home to wealthy New York City metropolitan suburbs
such as Greenwich, Darien, Redding, Westport, Fairfield, Weston, Ridgefield, Wilton and New Canaan. In
addition to its wealthy communities, Fairfield County is home
to many lower-middle and working class-cities. Bridgeport, Danbury, and Norwalk, as well as
other larger communities are more densely populated and
economically diverse than the affluent areas for which the
county is better known.
The towns in Fairfield
County bordering Long
Island Sound are sometimes referred to as The Gold Coast.
The county's largest cities
are Bridgeport, Stamford, Norwalk, and Danbury. Together these
cities contain about 420,000 people; almost half the
population of the county.
As is the case with all
eight of Connecticut's counties, there is no county
government, and no county seat.
The Frederick Remington House, Ridgefield
CT
[Robert Fulton, III - Photographer,
1967]
