Fairton is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP)[9] located within Fairfield Township, in Cumberland County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

[11] This area was occupied historically by the Lenape and Nanticoke peoples, both part of the Algonquian languages family of the Atlantic coast.

The first industry in Fairfield was a mill, established by English settler Samuel Fithian.

In the center of town was a busy public wharf, from which were shipped vegetables, fish and lumber to large city markets.

[12] In 1978, the indigenous peoples based in Cumberland County reorganized as the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation.

[13] The tribe said that in 2016 they had 3,000 enrolled members, whose membership is based on documented descent from core families and blood quantum.

[14][15] Tribal members have lived for centuries in Cumberland and Salem counties in present-day New Jersey.

[16][17] The 2010 United States census counted 1,264 people, 529 households, and 354 families in the CDP.

[11] As of the 2000 United States Census[6] there were 2,253 people, 474 households, and 334 families residing in the CDP.